Crochet
Current Project: Black sweater
I learned how to crochet when I was 16 from a book. I quickly fell in love with the formation of stitches into something tangible—creations that were a direct result of my effort. There have been moments since then where I truly felt limitless with my creative potential as a crocheter. But in all of my twenties (a full decade), the joy of making warped into a pressure to be validated by others. I tried building a business out of my crochet passions and that desire stagnated my creative growth. I wanted to be “unique,” but failed to realize that my uniqueness needed the shaping and sharpening of other people’s knowledge and expertise, not just their applause. I wanted success and validation while in a gestation period, a time in my life where I needed to focus on learning, absorbing, and experiencing.
Like crochet, there is an art to living. Like crochet, I’m still learning how to widen my palette to receive and understand the invitations life offers me.
I’m grateful to have now experienced a level of professional success completely unrelated to crafting, which helped me to mentally decouple crochet with the possibility of revenue. Though that is, of course, achievable (and I applaud the people who have married craft passions with sustained income generation), I’m fully satisfied with where crochet sits with me in this period in my life. I’m going deeper into my love of crochet, exploring patterns for the first time, making garments for myself, and understanding that, like all crafts, there are varying levels of complexity to explore.
I feel curious about what I don’t know, and that curiosity feels delightful.
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