Meet The Starlings, a collective of women crochet enthusiasts

Do you cognize what galore women got ‘hooked’ to during the lockdown? Hooked to crochet. The trade recovered truthful galore takers that it led to the enactment of collectives and communities, immoderate adjacent pan-Indian. Among the batch was The Starlings, a small, vibrant radical comprising women. Brainchild of Kochi-based Sanjana Shafik and Kollam-based Aysha S Kabeer, the assemblage astatine contiguous has 25 progressive members, immoderate of whom are based extracurricular Kerala and successful West Asia.

It was Olam, a taste festival annually held successful Thiruvananthapuram, which acceptable the signifier for the enactment of Starlings. “I met Aysha astatine 1 of the editions of Olam. We kept successful interaction and since we some knew a batch of women who crochet, we formed a WhatsApp group, Crochet Friends. There came a constituent erstwhile we thought of forming a community, particularly to undertake orders. The conception was that if I get an bid and I cannot implicit it, I walk it connected to different subordinate successful the group. We discussed it wrong Crochet Friends which past had 50-60 members. Out of them 35 showed involvement and frankincense Starlings was formed,” says Sanjana, a selling manager.