Brian Lear on WNYC so are you a hobbyist would you like to be?

All through this membership drive we're going to end the show by looking at some of the

popular ways we spend our time honing new skills and finding community virtually and in person

among other people as obsessed as we might be with yarn, clay, paper, glass, or getting up early to sit and watch the birds.

Today let's kick this off with a look at knitting and crocheting.

We are joined for this by Nancy Reiche, a knitter, crocheter, weaver, and pattern designer who can be found most days at

Nitty City, Yarn Store on West 79th Street. We won't have time for calls but you can

text us at 212,33 WNYC to share your latest

project who taught you to knit or your favorite bit of knitting lore lore and

Nancy welcome to WNYC.

Hi Brian, thank you so much for having me.

I guess I could say like a few things we will talk about in this series,

knitting and crocheting didn't start as hobbies, but in this case

as how you got a sweater if you wanted one, you know, a very practical thing, how did it become a hobby?

How did it become a hobby?

Well, for me, how it started for me, I was waiting, I'm not from the U.S.

I'm from Amsterdam, and I'm from Amsterdam and I married in New Yorker Trevor

shout out to Trevor and Trevor what used to work on the first national tour of

Wicked so I was with him on the tour,

and I was waiting for my green card and my work permit,

and I couldn't do anything.

I was going nuts.

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