Courtney aka SwearyCrochet

I’m a 40-something, curly-haired, yarn-loving Momma to three feral kiddos. My Mom taught me to crochet in July 2006, and when she passed away fairly unexpectedly in August, 2014, crochet became my lifesaver. Instead of crawling under the rock I really, really wanted to crawl under, I started flexing my crochet muscles. New yarns entered my world, new patterns and designers found their way into my library, and I stopped making things I really didn’t like to make. I started teaching myself to knit shortly after my Mom died, but it didn’t stick til quarantine. Now I’m addicted to knitting socks! I love pattern-testing and proofreading – the yarn life rules!

Christine aka PlantsAndCrochet1119

Wife, mother, plant collector, crochet lover, and dog mom! Ask me anything crochet-related!

Cara Louise aka FeatheredFriendCrochet

I am a world-class lurker. You will likely not see me in a lot of discussions, but I am here behind the scenes helping to keep things sorted out. I have finally given myself permission to just be the person I am, and so I don’t push myself into activities which trigger my social anxiety.

I have been crocheting for 50 years now, since about age 8 when my mother taught me with regular yarn and larger crochet hooks.

A year or two later, she found a bag that had been her mother’s which contained some gorgeous doilies her mother had made, along with some skinny crochet thread and some impossibly small steel crochet hooks. I fell in love on the spot, created my very first doily without any pattern by copying one of hers, and have been designing and crafting small articles such as doilies, coasters, snowflakes and angels ever since! (Although I do confess to using patterns too!)

Every time I make something I feel a kinship with the grandmother I was never able to meet, and so her spirit is alive in me- all these years later!

Margaret aka CoffeeOrCrochet

Crochet is my go-to when I don’t have anywhere to go. Or when I don’t want to go anywhere. Or when I don’t want to have anywhere to go.

I wish had 8 arms so I could crochet more things at the same time.

And it is true – you can never have enough yarn. No matter what my husband thinks.