It was meditative, relaxing, yet challenging. Let it remind you of how powerful you are even when you feel powerless.Īs far as craft media, I have dabbled in a bit of everything: painting, ceramics, glass art, sewing, printmaking, macrame, punch needle, all the things! Something about crochet, however, worked its way into my heart more than any other craft I’d tried before. Whether you knit, crochet, weave, paint, write, or play music, I hope that I can remind just a single person of the healing power of creativity. As much as I love making, I also love telling my story through the things I make - and even more, encouraging others to share their stories through their craft. My Bee Beanie, for example, represents my personal symbol for my late great-grandmother, who was tiny but feisty and once gave me a tiny gold and pearl bee pin, which I wear to this day for good luck. Yes, I design sweaters and scarves and hats and home decor, but everything about each creation I make - the name, the colors, the shapes, the inspiration behind it - means so much more. Needless to say, making is so much more than manipulating materials to me. Making helped me through my darkest moments, and to this day it continues to remind me that no matter how difficult life becomes, I can always create. In a life that felt so completely out of my control, creativity was the birthplace of hope. I could take something ordinary - yarn, paint, or paper - and I could change it. Having been through so much indescribable pain, I could still have the power to create something beautiful. Creating things helped me to make sense of it all.
I made things because it was the only way I could process what I had been through. When I was a teenager, I experienced the death of both of my parents in the span of three years. until my life was turned completely upside down. At first, making was simply a natural way for me to express myself or to pass the time.
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