I first became interested in learning to crochet the first time I went to Vogue Knitting Live in 2018. My mom and I were roaming the stalls looking to buy more yarn we certainly didn’t need, and we came upon a booth for a pattern book called Edward’s Menagerie. The booth was decorated with the most adorable stuffed animals hung on clear fishing line to look as though they were floating, and to top it off, they also had a 10 foot tall flamingo. I made my mom take a picture next to it, and that was the moment I knew I needed to learn to crochet.

Since then, learning to crochet has been my New Year's resolution every year for the past three years. I haven’t made much progress. This year, I hope to change that. If all goes according to plan, I’ll have to come up with a new resolution for 2022 because the first skill I’m chronicling on this blog is crochet!