 Typically, attendees knit, though others crochet (they are called 'Happy Hookers'), and still others engage in cross-stitching, embroidery, and other needlecraft.Nowadays, the groups have been analyzed by scholars as expressions of resistance to major political, social and technological change in Western societies.However, political discussion is not unusual at these events, and at least some participants are proponents of progressive, liberal, and/or leftist social and political change.