One of the most common questions I am asked as a designer is where my inspiration comes from. Such a general and easy question, right? But the truth is that I don’t know the answer, as my inspiration comes randomly and from hundreds of different sources. It can be nature, architecture, movies… But it can also be a random light shadow on the ground on a sunny day. Of course, I browse Pinterest on a...
It all started with a skein of yarn... Last October, I was invited to join my colleagues and crochet friends at the annual meeting of the Scheepjes designers in the Netherlands. We meet up every year and participate in the themed workshops. Last year, we learned how to dye yarn, and that was my first every experience with hand-dyeing yarn. You can read more about it here on my blog. I brought...
My crochet designing career started nearly 11 years ago (and I still cannot believe it was so long ago when I first introduced my own crochet pattern on Ravelry). Before that, I had been crocheting for years already, since I learned to crochet at the age of 5. And because we did not have access to fancy crochet magazines, often I created my own patterns with leftover yarn I had at hand. The yarn fibres...
Hooded scarves have become a huge trend this year. You could see them literally everywhere: on the shelves in the stores, on the pages of the fashion bloggers, and of course among the new releases from indie designers. Hooded scarves have become popular mostly in the knitting world, and I thought it would be nice to design something similar in crochet, too. Browsing Pinterest, I have seen many...
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