Michael Sellick lives in Nova Scotia and teaches crochet on YouTube to an audience of 1.3 million subscribers. It’s a hobby he says he first discovered when he was going through a difficult period in his youth.
“Two weeks into high school, I had no friends at all,” he said. “And I was unable to cope with the pressure of being the person that’s being picked on.”
Sellick says he turned to his mom for help, and she taught him to crochet one evening.
“I was instantly hooked, and I was able to turn off my mind,” he said. “ I absolutely was terrified to go to my school, and when I came home, I could just like create something.”
Sellick spoke to People First Radio about his journey with crochet.
“ It is very therapeutic…some of the stuff I keep rehashing in my mind, it seems to work itself into a stitching,” he said.
“ I go into my yarn collection where the samples are, and I can remember what I was thinking when I made that. And I feel like that memory has been left in that project and no longer just cycling around in my brain.”
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