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42 Voice | Fall 2025
Stitch by
Stitch: ADU’s
Crochet Club
By Rufaida Siddig
uring our interview with Abu Dhabi Thinking back on her journey, she voiced
DUniversity’s Crochet Club members, Nida bittersweet regret over being unable to fully
and Yumna, ADU Voice dove deep into the experience the role of a vice president due to her
essence of crocheting as well as its artistic impact busy schedule and graduation project approaching,
and purpose in our interviewee’s respective saying: “But it was good. While it lasted a whole
perspectives. year, conducting workshops and interacting with
people who want to learn about crochet was just a
Nida, Vice President of the club, is a senior really nice experience.”
student whose crocheting journey began during
lockdown. Having taken the semester off, Yumna, a current member, joined the crochet club
she wanted to get into something “crafty and during her first year after attending the university’s
creative”, though she quickly discovered it club fair. Finding a crochet club was a pleasant
was an art form that required strong resilience. surprise for her, she said, given that she has been
“I crocheted for a week and thought I couldn’t doing this craft since childhood. She added,
do this,” Nida recalled. “So, I stopped… and a regarding the start of her crocheting journey: “My
few months later, I was like, ‘Let’s continue, we mom told me and my sisters that if we did not find
have to figure this out’… I consistently started our way in education, we should have something
crocheting and it kind of just worked out.” to get income from.” With her mother’s expert
After joining the club in her second year, she guidance in the practice, Yumna felt inspired to get
increasingly involved herself more, developing into the craft alongside her family.
the crochet club and its popularity. As a result,
she became Vice President in her fourth year. As her skills sharpened with time, the once shared
family hobby turned into a flourishing business.
Having been veteran member of the club, Yumna
reflects on the lessons she has learned along the
way. “I learned to be patient,” she said. “In our
workshops, some people came while knowing
nothing about crocheting … it was a bit challenging
because I thought people would come with the basic
foundations.” She also taught left-handed people,
a challenging task considering that most crochet
instructions and tools are designed for right-handed
people. This meant that entire patterns had to be
mirrored. “…It was interesting helping them out
and teaching them how to hold the yarn and hook”,
Yumna noted, recalling the fond memories of the
workshops and her mentorship journey.
