They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never crocheted dreams. I crocheted my own reality. — after Frida Kahlo I don’t crochet to represent the world that is outside of me. I crochet to give life to the world inside my head. The fleeting thought — the…

A little work doesn’t daunt me. — Nancy Drew Like Nancy Drew, we can sometimes find ourselves facing what seems like an unending task — ends to be tied, stitches to be counted, and rows to be crocheted. But the beauty and peril of crochet is this: you can only…

If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice! — crochetbug If you crochet for any time at all, you will, inevitably, make a mistake. While repair of the mistake is usually straight forward (pull out all of the stitches to the point where the error was made and start over)…

You have power over your crochet— not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.― after Marcus Aurelius When you pick up a crochet hook and secure yarn to it with a slip knot, you are at the origin of a world of your own making. The yarn overs…

What cannot be said will be crocheted — after Sappho Sometimes something in the world happens and words fail. It’s times like that the I pick up my crochet hook and get to work.

The yarn has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. — crochetbug, after Jackson Pollock You might think with a crochet hook firmly in one hand and the yarn to be crocheted in the other, that the yarn must bend to the will of the…

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. — Helen Keller So much of life is composed of the ordinary — running and errand, walking a dog, wiping down a counter —…

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Crochet is awesome. — crochetbug The truth of some things is obvious, and the wonder of crochet is one of them. With crochet you can create whatever you can imagine: a farm, a train, a bag, a flower, a blanket. There is no limit…