A craft education organization based in Los Angeles, CA.

 Our mission is to fortify young people by gathering in person to practice traditional meditative crafts, cultivate mental wellness, supportive peer groups, and a deep sense of purpose and belonging.

In the round is a term used in knitting that indicates a circular pattern, using circular needles, and is commonly used for hats, socks, collars, or edging. Additionally, quilt circles and sewing circles, are an ancient tradition and the term circle is used because a groups gathers together typically sitting in a circle all working on a shared project in community.

All historical photos are sourced from the free media repository at the US National Archive. The intention of using a diverse set of historical photos is to show the overlapping traditions - cross-cultural and cross-generational - of crafting circles.

In The Round was founded in 2022 by Meg Glasser. After bringing endless energy and midnight-oil to multiple startups like Food Forward, Good Eggs, Glamsquad, and CraftJam, Meg realized the thing she’s most passionate about is building organizations rooted in creative communities.

In 2022, Meg started teaching a weekly knitting and crochet workshop to a group of elementary school students at Elysian Heights Elementary. After a few weeks, she began to see improvements in their confidence, leadership skills, fine-motor skills and attention span. Most notably, she noticed their desire to unplug and connect with friends.

It was this weekly workshop that inspired In The Round, and that was like a giant scarf of realization - stitching her childhood, education, inspirations and passions all together:

  • The proud daughter of a textile artist and dressmaker.

  • A Bachelor’s in Textile Arts from the College of Design at NC State.

  • Leadership roles in brands that are rooted in creative communities, including the Co-Founder of CraftJam.

  • And most importantly Meg’s daily “keep-em-creative-and-off-screens” fieldwork as a mother in a blended family with 4 kids: a 10-year-old, 13-year-old twins, and a 16-year-old.

FAQs

  • The address is 2971 Allesandro St, Los Angeles, CA 90039.

    Its is in the Frogtown/ Elysian Valley neighborhood on the Eastside of Los Angeles.

    Its located just steps away from the LA River bike and walking path.

  • We have 6 weeks scheduled at Grow Kid Grow in Silver Lake.

    Grow Kid Grow
    4310 Sunset Blvd,
    Los Angeles, CA 90029

    We are hosting 3 knitting session on the following weeks:

    June 10 - 14

    June 24 - 28

    July 22 - 26

    We are hosting 3 crochet sessions on the following weeks:

    June 17 - 21

    July 8 - 12

    July 29 - Aug 2

  • 100%. Absolutely. For those that need it, we start from the very beginning.

  • Many of the most fantastic textiles ever made are woven with various fabrics and materials… and CHATTER. Goofing off, sharing, asking, listening, laughing — it’s literally part of it. They will have plenty of time to move, socialize, stop and start as they like.

  • Heck no! Boys and gender non-conforming kids are welcome and highly encouraged to join.

  • If you need to cancel your student’s spot, you can do so and receive a full refund up until 4 weeks before the first day of your students week at camp.

  • If there are 5 or more students in a different neighborhood that would like to gather, please reach out and we’ll see if we can work something out and come to you. Email us at hello@intheround.love