Poultry therapy: A community meet and knit while providing emotional support

Every Sunday and Wednesday, a dedicated group of knitters of all colours, ages and life experience gather around a big table to work on their knitting projects. They talk about everything under the sun including politics. — Photos: GINA FERAZZI/Los Angeles Times/TNS

SHE had me at “emotional support chickens.”

My friend Susan Kaufman was telling me about a yarn store in Inglewood where a multiracial, multigenerational crowd gathers twice a week to commune and knit. The store’s owner has created do-it-yourself knitting kits for overstuffed chickens with fanciful names like Baraaawk Obama, Hennifer Lopez and Paulina Poultryskova.