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Club of Needlecrafters Stay Well Knit

The Suisun City Library's Needle Crafts Club is a great place to learn and socialize

Once a month, the Needle Crafts Club meets at the to share their various hand work projects. Members often encourage others to come in and pick up new techniques, or learn an altogether new type of needle work.

“I just enjoy doing all the hand works,” said Diana Nesbit, club founder.

Nesbit said she began the club three years ago by just coming to the library with her knitting, crocheting, and tatting supplies and working on them. She would talk to people about her projects and let them know when she would be there and available to teach anyone interested. She said the club that started with just one now has anywhere from three to seven people each club meeting.

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“We have a couple other girls that come that are really great knitters,” said Nesbit.

Nesbit began Needlecrafts Club as a way to keep the tradition of hand work ongoing. She first learned how to knit when she was four years old. Her mother had been knitting a sweater for her younger sister, and, after Nesbit expressed interest, her mother taught her how to do basic stitching.

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“It fascinated me,” she said.

Now she knits just about every chance she gets. She said she enjoys doing something productive with her time, and loves being able to teach others, as well. Often times it is not just the adults who join her at her needle crafts table, but children.

“They want to come and look and they think they can’t participate,” said Nesbit. “So we invite them over and just kind of share with them what the crafts are and how they can do it. They’re interested in what we’re doing, they want to see.”

Adults, too, come to learn what they can, and often find the club a great way to do something different.

“I come mostly for the socialization,” said Lois Oday. She adds, jokingly, “I’m stuck at home all day with my husband so I come down here to get away from him.”

Oday has been knitting for some time, but has still learned some things from attending the club. Others, such as Peggy Marquiss started attending the club with no prior knitting experience.

“Diana told me she was having a class here and that she was going to have different kinds of crafts and I know she’s skilled in many different ones,” said Marquiss.

Marquiss said she enjoys being able to socialize with the group, as well. She was happy with being able to make an attempt at knitting. Still, knitting is not for everyone. She has since decided to do other hand works and occasionally brings in sewing projects she is working on by hand.

The Needle Crafts Club meets every third Thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Suisun City Library.

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