“Crochet” comes from French and it means “to hook.” In Spanish, to say you are crocheting is, “tejer con gancho,” literally translated: to make fabric with a hook. This crochet hook is central to the art. It is not impossible to crochet without a hook, there is a technique called…

Many of the most talked about NFT collections are on the Ethereum mainnet blockchain. However, there are more crypto protocols than Ethereum that can process the metadata and provide the decentralized features that define NFTs. Among those other chains include Tezos, Wax, Cardano, Flow, Polygon, Binance, Solana and more. Most…

I recently came across a link to a TikTok video where a gal had captioned it along the lines of, “I learned to knit by watching someone play with ramen.” She had dueted a video where someone was illustrating a cast-on with chopsticks and their ramen. To imitate it, she…

One of the biggest challenges I’ve encountered in my approximate 18 years of crocheting is really 2 issues intertwined. 1) There is an assumption that because you are able to make one type of object (a scarf, for example) means that you are also knowledgeable in making ALL other types…

Crocheting and knitting are known worldwide. But how do people learn about it and learn to DO it? In the winter of 2002, I was in college in Wisconsin, spending some time with my boyfriend. As it is quite cold in the winter in the Midwest, we were all bundled…