Anne Aycock, owner of Mountain Laurel Yarn in Spring City, has helped students at Pottstown Middle School decompress through the after-school fiber arts program she teaches, writes Courtney Diener-Stokes for the Daily Local News. 

The course is part of the after-school enrichment program offered to the students by the school where they can learn anything from claymation and robotics to taekwondo and languages. 

“ArtFusion contracts me to the school to teach the after-school enrichment program that’s grant-funded,” said Aycock. 

In addition to creating decorated, hand-stitched items, students taking Aycock’s class get additional rewards through the process. They get an opportunity to decompress and relieve anxiety following a highly stimulating day. 

“One of my young students who was sitting really quietly stitching said ‘this is so chill’,” said Aycock. “Slowly they become peaceful and enjoy it.” 

Additionally, “you are engaging the head, the heart, and the hands, so they are getting all of that.” 

Read more about the fiber arts program in the Daily Local News.