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Speaker 1: Isabelle Nicholas's hands are a little unsteady as our recorder,

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Speaker 1: but they get more sure in a second.

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Speaker 2: I'm working on a crocheted top for summer.

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Speaker 1: She's one of the organizers of the Summerville Stitch Club,

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Speaker 1: which started in December. The ones a month crafting hangouts

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Speaker 1: have become insanely popular.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred people showed up for that one, and we

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Speaker 3: were turning people away at the door.

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Speaker 1: That's the other organizer, Jamie Book. After just a handful

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Speaker 1: of these gatherings at the West Branch Library, they've had

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Speaker 1: to make a pre registration system. Fifty people are in

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Speaker 1: the room, but more than one hundred are on the

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Speaker 1: waiting list. Isabelle says, there's a real desire to get

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Speaker 1: out there and work with your hands.

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Speaker 4: I know that there are a lot of people here

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Speaker 4: who work in offices all day, or like who work

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Speaker 4: from home, and this is just sort of their outlet.

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Speaker 1: Another big part of the sudden buzz. This is an easy,

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Speaker 1: low pressure way to make friends. You don't even really

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Speaker 1: need an icebreaker just to ask. But somebody else is knitting.

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Speaker 3: Especially a lot of younger people are ready to make

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Speaker 3: friends of the old fashioned way I don't know how

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Speaker 3: to

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Speaker 1: Say it, like Kyle Shaffle WBS Boston Shows, Radio,