This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. This piece was made as a tribute to her journey and continued story of…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size I-9 with cotton yarn. This piece was made as a…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size I-9 with cotton yarn. This piece was made as a…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size H-8 with acrylic/cotton mix yarn. This piece…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as an additional piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size I-9 with acrylic yarn. This piece was made as a…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2026 as another piece in her collection “Mandalas of Healing”. The artist used US hook size H-8 and G-6 with mix acrylic/cotton yarn. This piece…
This collection created by Preeti Samraj and Jade Carrico of the International House of Crochet is a picnic-themed collection of crocheted objects. The collection includes a charcuterie board, spilled wine, cherry pie, crudites, shrimp cocktail, soda…
This piece is a crocheted mandala designed and made by textile artist Michelle Beerbower. It was made in 2025 as the commencing piece in her collection "Mandalas of Transformation". The artist used US crochet hook size I-9 and acrylic blend yarn.…
This miniature sock ornament was designed and made by my mentor, Janet Johnson Stephens. It uses commercial sock yarn. The ornament is worked back and forth and seamed along the top edge, rather than worked in the round as a traditional sock. It is…
This is a flower loom afghan in acrylic yarn. The lower/outer petals are white. Each center is worked in one of nine different colors. The field of 357 flowers is a hexagonal grid of 16 by 23 — in a hexagonal pattern, it is 12 columns with 16 flowers…
This afghan was made by my paternal grandmother. She was a talented seamstress. She made much of her own wardrobe throughout her life as well as clothes for her grandchildren. She crocheted less often than she sewed. She is the person who taught me…
This is an acrylic crochet afghan consisting of blocks with large red Irish roses. The afghan is 30 identical blocks total arranged in a 5 by 6 grid. There is fringe at the short ends but not the sides.
This hand knit cotton cardigan was a challenging project to make, featuring bold color work patterns in Fair Isle and intarsia, with textured stitches and beads. I have really loved it, and have worn it frequently. I wore it when the knitting…
I knitted this cabled pullover with worsted weight wool yarn. It was great to wear over a white button down shirt, and I wore it a lot. I do not currently recall the source of the pattern I used.
I traveled to Scotland with my husband in about 1998. He had cancer at the time and he wanted to make one last trip -- he chose England as his destination, and I said that if we went there, we would also have to go to Scotland, so I could enjoy…
Class project for Charles Gandy embellishment class. Knit in the round with chunky acrylic yarn, stuffed with fiber fill. Learned a lot about monster style embellishments.
This sweet hat-shaped pincushion was crocheted with white cotton yarn that seemed similar in size to sport or DK weight yarn. The decorative flowers were crocheted with No. 10 crochet cotton in two different variegated colorways. Lengths of blue 1/2…
For a time, probably in the 2010s, I ran across a number of crocheted doilies with a crocheted mesh border on the wrong side. What was -that- about? My mother Anna knew exactly what the mesh-backed doilies were: decorative covers for asbestos hot…
This is a beaded collar accessory designed to be worn over a sweater or top to dress it up. I made this to support and participate in CKC's Collar-Along Make-Along activity -- a make-along held in 2025 that was created to call attention to the beauty…
This skirt featured hand- and machine-sewing, two courses of rickrack with crochet insertions, and a hand-embroidered eyelet ruffle. The rickrack was 1/4 inches wide. The cotton crochet thread was a little thinner than size 30, and significantly…