Hi! I’m Wendelika and I want to help you tap into and expand your creativity through my knitting and crochet patterns and online tutorials that will help you build your skills and confidence.
I really enjoy making things and teaching other people how to make things. I am a member of the Knit Picks Independent Designer Partnership and I have been an Etsy seller since 2012.
I grew up with yarn. My grandma taught me how to play Cat’s Cradle, then I learned to weave pot holders with loops of nylon. When my first pot holder was woven, I had to get it off the loom somehow, so my mom taught me how to crochet the loops off the loom. That was my first experience with crochet.
Through the years, Grandma taught me how to knit, just to give me something to do. I wasn’t very good at sitting still. Mom taught me how to crochet granny squares and soon after, my dolls were all wearing the most amazing outfits – all based on granny square crochet. I figured out how to increase and decrease to get the shapes that I wanted mostly by trial and error.
As the 1970s, with their wild crocheted and otherwise handmade fashions morphed into the ’80s, my love affair with yarn cooled down. I studied music seriously, played professionally with the 234th Army Band, Oregon Army National Guard and eventually, after marrying and becoming a stay at home mom, realized that I really missed my creative time. I had never completely given up knitting and crochet, but I dove into learning more techniques and made fiber arts more of a focus.
I believe that we can all learn so much from our own creative experiences. New knitters/crocheters/crafters and experienced alike can work together to build each other up and learn together. The growth of the internet and its social media platforms has enabled us to share patterns, ideas and techniques in ways that we couldn’t have imagined until now. This website is just a tiny speck in the internet, but I hope to use it to connect with you, my crafting friend, and offer new ideas, tips and tricks for creating your own things with yarn.
Now is a great time to learn, to connect and to grow. Won’t you join me?