Feature
| thoughts from a designer
ThoUghTS
from a
designer
BY Kim P. WerKer
Kim Werker, talented
crochet designer, shares
with us some of her
thoughts on crochet.
ntil a few months ago, i lived the
U
dream. from morning ‘til night, i
worked in crochet. i wrote about
it, planned for it, edited it and
collaborated over it. the catch was that at the
end of the day, i wanted to do anything but it.
my hobby died a slow and somewhat painful
death. i knitted more than ever before and even
started dreaming of sewing.
Despite my work, I’ve never been a pattern-user
when it comes to crochet. At some point during my
five years working in the industry, though, I came to
think that it would benefit the projects I was working
on if I followed some of the patterns and share the
results. Or, even less amenable to my crochet style,
if I would design and write up patterns that other
people could follow. I forced myself into it; I pushed
through the boredom; I sat down and wouldn’t get up
until I had a scarf in the making.
Ugly dolls
The truth is, there’s one thing I like crocheting more
than anything else: dolls. Dolls usually without
arms. Dolls with mismatched eyes or ill-conceived
novelty-yarn hair. When I make them, I don’t want to
interrupt my creating by taking notes so I can write
up the pattern. And really, what’s the point of making
a doll that breaks the mould, so to speak, if you’re
creating a mould from it? Regardless, over the years,
I tried to be happy doing things that don’t actually
make me happy, and I’ve only recently started
Kim Werker
getting reacquainted with crochet the way I like it –
contemplates her
love of crochet.
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