There’s a quiet coup underway in the world of global crochet records. If you listen carefully, you can hear the needless clicking.
A group called Mother India’s Crochet Queens (MICQ), set up by an ambitious 49-year-old CEO from Chennai, has dethroned a group from South Africa and two groups from the UK, while setting a total of four Guinness world records over the past four years.
MICQ has 6,000 members spread across India and 13 other countries, from Poland to Australia and the Emirates. Their work isn’t subversive or political, as a lot of crochet tends to be these days. Instead, members — some are 6, some are 86 (a few are also men) — help create record-setting and non-record-setting blankets, caps, toys and other woven goods that are then donated to the poor and to sick children. MICQ also uses needlework time to do what it’s always done — help women…
