ELMSDALE:<\/strong> Samantha Seitl spends all her spare time crocheting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 13-year-old Riverside Education Centre student was first inspired to start crafting when her grandmother taught her how to crochet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter she taught me, I learned from YouTube, and then I just did little steps. So, I did single crochets and then I started getting higher and now I know a lot of the stitches,\u201d Seitl says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After learning how to crochet, the first thing she made on her own was a little pumpkin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But, with even more practice, she started making more things, like octopuses, frogs, pickles, scrunchies, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n When she started to make a wider variety, she said her friends asked if they could take some. This made her realize that they are something she could sell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve always loved going to sales and markets and stuff, so I was like, why don\u2019t I like have my own business so I can start it and just sell my stuff at markets,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI started it, and I really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her first market was at the Open East Hants Day Market, and she\u2019s now done three markets. She also sells her items on Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She believes her most popular item to sell would be her pickles that she crochets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI remember the second market I did, I sold out of all the pickles in one hour,\u201d she explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”54″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although she loves selling her items, Seitl also donates items like blankets for the cancer unit at the Victoria General. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She believes that it\u2019s important for kids her age to learn a hobby like this because it can help with their imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a nice feeling to get making something and then showing it to the world,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Seitl says she hopes to expand her craft by learning how to make bigger animals and by learning how to make sweaters, which is her most recent project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The biggest project she has done so far is a little suitcase that stores a little mouse traveller. It stores clothes for the mouse, little cheese, and the mouse can even sleep inside it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She says she\u2019s lucky because a lot of her yarn is given to her by family members. However, she pays for all her supplies from the money she makes at these markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking forward to the future, Seitl hopes to expand the craft beyond just crocheting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI still do want to make more crochet projects, but I think that it would be nice to expand at some point,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She even explained that the reason her business is called Kind Creations is that the plan was always to expand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInitially I was thinking something to do with crochet, and then I was like, you know what, it might not always be just yarn later on,\u201d she explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seitl is extremely excited to see what comes next at markets or even just orders from Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”218″] [adrotate banner=”111″] Story by NSCC Journalism student Paige Dillman who is interning with The Laker News for May ELMSDALE: Samantha Seitl spends all her spare time crocheting. The 13-year-old Riverside Education Centre student was first inspired to start crafting when her grandmother taught her how to crochet. \u201cAfter she taught me, I learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[8401,196,986,1685,8402,8403,508,8404,8405],"class_list":["post-55673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-crocheting","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale","tag-kindness","tag-knitting","tag-quilt","tag-rec","tag-sam-seitl","tag-young-entrepreneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0407-768x1024.jpeg\")