6 I didn’t start this thinking about city blocks. I started with a hook, some yarn, and a simple belief: if you put tools in people’s hands and give them space to create, something bigger starts to happen. Now I’m watching that “something bigger” stretch across Cedar Rapids—one class, one person, one stitch at a time. The Classes Are Growing—And That Matters What began as a single community-based crochet class has quickly expanded into multiple weekly cohorts across the area. Libraries, commu...

From One Stitch to a City Block: