Designers, Authors & Editors
Kristi Simpson
Kristi Simpson designs creative crochet patterns with a modern and fresh touch. Her patterns are located online on Ravelry, Craftsy, and Etsy. Her designs have been published in international crochet magazines, and are scheduled to be featured in...Read More
Olivia Kent
Olivia Kent is a crochet designer who is passionate about reinventing crochet into a form of modern creativity.
A few years ago she decided to start a website called “Hopeful Honey”, and it was literally love at first sight! Since then she's...Read More
Roseanna Beck
Roseanna Beck is a 64 year old homemaker who does a lot of crafts for various charities and is also a published designer in many magazines and books. She has crocheted or knitted items all her life but has been designing for magazines and books for...Read More
Marie Segares
Marie Segares has been hooked on crochet since she learned from her grandmother when she was 9, and she conquered her fear of knitting in 2010. In addition to designing, Marie teaches both crochet and knitting in the New York City metro area and at...Read More
Chris Hammond
Chris Hammond's background is a bit different than you'd expect, with degrees in Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics and Physics. She's been a meteorologist, a high school math and science teacher and, most recently, a professional knitter. But above...Read More
Amy Gunderson
Amy Gunderson is a Midwest transplant living in beautiful North Carolina with her husband and their adorable yellow lab, Suzy. She works full time as Creative Lead for Universal Yarn, and does independent design in her spare...Read More
Denise Lavoie
Denise designs crochet and knitwear as well as paints and creates mixed media art pieces whenever she can. Her work and designs have been published in books and magazines. You can find her on social media at her blog, Read More
Mary Beth Temple
Mary Beth Temple is an author and designer of both knitting and crochet patterns. Her work appears frequently in knitting and crochet magazines in the US and UK, and she is also the owner and lead designer for the popular pattern line Hooked for...Read More
Jennifer E. Ryan
Jennifer Ryan is an award-winning crochet designer whose specialty is combining Celtic Knots with crochet. She has won awards for her unique Celtic garments in the CGOA’s (Crochet Guild of America) Design Competitions of 2012, 2013, 2014 and...Read More
Dora Ohrenstein
Dora Ohrenstein is a leading crochet designer, author and teacher. Her books include the upcoming The Crocheter’s Skill-Building Workbook (Storey), The New Tunisian Crochet (Interweave, 2013), Custom Crocheted Sweaters (Lark, 2012), the first...Read More
Tanya Eberhardt
Tanya started her blog Little Things Blogged almost two years ago as she wanted to share her adventures in crocheting and generally crafting. Two years later, she's realized that it's great to have the ability to talk with creative people from all...Read More
Tian Connaughton
I am the crochet and knitwear designer, and tech editor behind KnitDesigns by Tian. I live in a small town in Western Massachusetts with my fantasy author husband, Daniel and son, Aidan. Teaching is at the heart of how I approach design. While my...Read More
Tamara Kelly
Tamara Kelly designs and blogs about crochet almost every day at Moogly. Yarn, crafting, art, design, and her kids all inspire her and keep her busy, if not quite completely sane. Award winning tutorials and new designs can be found on
Nazanin Fard
Nazanin S. Fard is a knitting/crochet designer with more than 700 published designs, dating all the way back to 1992. She started self-publishing some designs in 2007 in an electronic format offered on my web...Read More
Darleen Hopkins
Darleen Hopkins lives in beautiful northern Georgia with her husband and two boys. She started crocheting in 2004 and almost immediately began creating her own designs. She began designing professionally in 2010. When not designing, she is likely...Read More
Angelia Robinson
Former environmental lobbyist, Angelia Robinson, is a knit and crochet designer residing in Los Angeles. Her playful yet elegant work has been featured in Vogue Knitting: Crochet, Love of Knitting, and Interweave Crochet. Angelia’s creations...Read More
Kristen TenDyke
Kristen TenDyke is a knit and crochet designer who lives in Maine. She's a work-at-home mom who spends most of her free time playing with eco-friendly yarns and thinking up seamlessly constructed sweaters. She is the author of Finish-Free Knits...Read More
Christy Nelson
Christy Nelson has been addicted to yarn for most of her adult life. She started with crochet about 20 years ago and has now added knitting and spinning to her repertoire. An avid traveler, many of her designs are inspired by her visits to other...Read More
Jill Wright
Jill's designs have been published in Creative Knitting, Crochet! Magazine, Interweave Crochet, Knit.1, Love of Knitting, Love of Crochet, KnitStyle, also Vogue Knitting International and Vogue Knitting Crochet. Jill co-authored a Leisure Arts...Read More
Linda Dean
Linda Dean is a long time, self taught crocheter, a Professional member of the Crochet Guild of America (CGOA), a Master in Advanced Stitch and Technique (by CGOA), a Certified Instructor/Teacher...Read More
Ryan Hollist
Ryan took the steps into designing patterns in 2010 out of financial desperation. Since then he has found a deeper love of crocheting that surprises even him. Even in the face of crocheting under deadlines for publications and other paying...Read More
Jennifer Dickerson
Jennifer is a mother of two and the lady behind Fiber Flux, where she shares crochet and knitting patterns, articles, and tutorials. Jennifer also teaches crochet and knitting techniques on her YouTube...Read More
Michele Dobbins
Michele Dobbins hails from a cozy small town in Arkansas, which she visits between semesters at the University, where she is getting her degree in English Literature. Inspired by her love of musical theatre, reading, and traveling, she likes to...Read More
Heather Gibbs
Heather C Gibbs is the owner of Keep Calm and Crochet On U.K. and has been designing patterns since 2012. She has designed over 90 patterns (at the moment) which includes toys, blankets and lots of crochet squares - many of which are free or...Read More
Keilah Fok
Keilah Fok is the quirky crocheter behind Knot Theorist Designs. She aims to bring elegant and practical designs to adventurous crocheters. Since Keilah was two years old, her favorite question has been, “How does that work?” She...Read More
Amy Ramnarine
Amy Ramnarine is a crochet designer and the blogger behind The Stitchin' Mommy, where she shares her crochet patterns, tutorials, crafts, recipes, and more. Amy has been crocheting since 2009 and has been designing her own crochet patterns...Read More
Pauline Fitzpatrick
Pauline is a crochet designer who lives in Derbyshire, England. She has designed for various UK and US magazines, for yarn companies, and also self publishes patterns, available on Ravelry.
As well as designing, Pauline also teaches workshops on...Read More
Kenneth Cormier
Kenneth began crocheting at the age of 10. With a #7 steel hook and a ball of kite string, he twisted, knotted, and tangled his way to perfection. Since then, he has designed numerous crochet patterns for various publications. In addition to...Read More
Sonja M. Otto
Sonja lives in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and three children. She has been crocheting for over 20 years, and can knit a bit as well. Her design path started about 7 years ago when her daughter asked her to make doll clothes for her new...Read More
Maz Kwok
Susanne Visch
Susanne is a crochet and knitwear designer, living in the Netherlands. Having a background in Industrial Design Engineering, you can say that she always had a knack for designing and creating. When she taught herself to crochet and knit, she soon...Read More
Carrie Carpenter
Carrie Carpenter learned to crochet when she was about 10 years old, but it wasn't until she started working as the Fashion and Design Coordinator for a yarn company that Carrie began designing. She became so inspired by all of the amazing designs...Read More
Carmen Heffernan
I live in Ireland where I teach crochet workshops and obsess about crochet and
Janaya Chouinard
I'm Janaya, the owner and designer behind Charmed By Ewe. I first learned to crochet when I was 11 years old but lost interest in it for several years. I have re-discovered my love of the craft and am here to share my creations with you. Whether a...Read More
Sarah Jane Jackson
Sarah Jane works from her home in Brisbane Australia which means that most of the time it is really too hot for crochet. Despite that she loves to work with fibre and see what can be created from just one hook and some string. She has 8 children (7...Read More
Andee Graves
Andee Graves is a crochet designer, writer, teacher and artist living in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, two sons and an evolving menagerie of 4-legged friends. She combines a life-long passion for crocheting, sewing, and crafting with...Read More
Jessie Rayot
Jessie has been crocheting since her great grandmother first handed her a hook at the age of 8. She started off her professional life as a costume designer/creator/pattern maker. While managing the costume department for Adelphi University (in Long...Read More
Natasja King
Natasja King is the founder and editor of the blog crocheTime (crochetime.net) which has been featured in Ideas magazine (South Africa) and listed as a Top Blog To Follow...Read More
Beth Major
Beth Major was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, a small city surrounded by the Great Lakes and nestled in the forests of Northern Ontario, Canada. After living in many places, she now calls a faery cottage surrounded by the woods outside...Read More
Cheryl Chow
Cheryl admits to being a crafting addict. She can be found knitting, crocheting, spinning, and sewing near Seattle, WA. In her spare time, she enjoys being in the outdoors looking for inspiration and taking in the beautiful northwest scenery with...Read More
Beth Graham
Beth Graham loves to learn new things and delights in sharing her discoveries with others. Her patterns appeal to crocheters seeking simple, fun, tailored, and often innovative projects. Her work can be found in books and magazines like 101 Crochet...Read More
Jackie Laing
Jackie lives in B.C. Canada and enjoys playing with yarn and creating ami's in her spare time. She started crocheting in 2009, and has been hooked ever since!
Jackie finds inspiration from family and friends, her favorite TV shows, movies and...Read More
Emi Harrington
Emi Harrington loves to design knitwear patterns, both crochet and knitting! Using simple methods to obtain a more detailed appearance to finished garments is her focus. As well, she writes the pattern instructions without abbreviations, so they are...Read More
Lynn Wasylkevych
Lynn Wasylkevych has been crocheting since she was 7 years old. Her grandmother taught her the basics and she continued to hone her skills from the help of friends and teachers.
Lynn's background is in the field of corporate interior design, and...Read More
Anastacia Zittel
Anastacia Zittel is a 30 something, happily married gal living in MA, with one cat named Wedgie. By day, Anastacia works in retail, and in her free time she teaches knitting and crocheting and designs when she can! Her favorite things to make are...Read More
Angèle Lumière
Angèle Lumière learned to knit and crochet from her mother at a very young age and has been doing it with great passion ever since. By nature, she is very curious and creative and has always felt the need to create things with her hands....Read More
Michele Maks
Michele Maks has been a professional in the knit and crochet industry since 1985. Designing knit and crochet wear for 23 years led to becoming the editor of Crochet World, the largest crochet magazine in the world. An MS diagnosis made leaving the...Read More
Jennifer Olivarez
Jennifer Olivarez is a crochet artist and designer who enjoys using the medium to explore soft sculpture, storytelling, and pattern design. She uses amigurumi characters in a crochet world to illustrate the original stories featured on her blog,...Read More
Katherine Larson
Years after her mother taught her to crochet, Kate began designing because she couldn't find patterns for what she wanted to make. She lives in Las Vegas, NV with her husband, two sons, and two cats. She is frequently found on Ravelry as...Read More
Vera Sanon
Vera Sanon learned how to knit from her great-grandmother, a master teacher in all needle arts, in Germany when she was six years old. Her mother owned a yarn shop and used to design knitwear. From a young age, Vera used to knit for her shop, assist...Read More
Lorene Eppolite
Lorene Eppolite is the designer behind Cre8tion Crochet. She has been designing since October 2012. She loves to create fun and easy crochet accessories and garments. She strives to make her designs to be achievable for any skill level. Just because...Read More
Sharon Ballsmith
Sharon Ballsmith, is an avid crocheter and indie designer, having patterns published in magazines and books since 2010. Always keeping her hooks close by, she loves playing with stitch patterns and dreaming up new designs. You can find her on...Read More
Karen Whooley
Karen Whooley is a Washington State-based knitwear designer. Her work has been published in various print and online publications including Interweave Crochet, Crochet Magazine and Inside Crochet.
She is the author of...Read More
Dana Bincer
Dana Bincer and her twin sister, Deborah Bagley, co-founded www.yarnovations.com in 2012 creating realistic, quirky, and fun crochet patterns. In 2015 she joined the staff at F&W Media as Assistant...Read More
Stacey Williams
Stacey Williams started crocheting and knitting around October of 2011 and designing 3 years ago, the same time she started Busting Stitches.
You can find her on Read More
Joan Beebe
Joan Beebe works full-time in IT and moonlights as a knit and crochet designer and tech editor from her home in the rolling hills of North Carolina. She learned to knit as a child, then taught herself to crochet to land a job as a pattern writer,...Read More
Susan Heyn
Susan Heyn is a left-handed crocheter, and she first started when she was sick in bed at age 6. Her mom, also a left-handed crocheter, taught her the basics and she's been "hooked" ever since. Susan owned a small craft shop for a long time but...Read More
Jean Clement
A lifelong crafter, Jean enjoys designing knit and crochet projects with a classic style that can be worn for years. Her work has appeared in I Like Knitting, Knitscene, Knit.wear, Creative Knitting, Love of Knitting, Knitter's Magazine, Knit Picks,...Read More
Sara Kay Hartmann
Sara Kay Hartmann designs patterns for modern crochet and hand-knitting. She is the author of
Patons Design Studio
Patons is committed to providing knitters and crocheters with high quality yarns and creative patterns. The Patons website is a great place to learn all about our yarns and to find your next knitting project or crochet project. With a free...Read More
Heidi Gustad
Heidi Gustad is a young knitting, crochet and crafts designer who grew up in North Dakota. She first learned to knit at age 8 from a grandmother who saw in her a need for something to keep her busy. She's now a Chicagoan, blogger at...Read More
Aimee Croke
Aimee been creating with thread and yarn since 2008 but only designing since 2015. Her need to always be challenged in what she loves led Her to teach herself how to design what she creates. When Aimee isn't designing, she creates finished products...Read More
Juliette Bezold
Juliette’s life-long passion for design, especially textile and fiber arts, began in her youth at age 8, when her mother taught her to knit, and she taught herself crochet from a book. In addition to crochet, Juliette is an accomplished...Read More
Charles Voth
Charles Voth has crocheted and knit for 45 years. He enjoys exploring how yarn and texture interact to produce versatile fabrics, which he then uses in his designs. He is a crochet diagram illustrator, and a technical editor, designer, and teacher...Read More
Deborah Carpenter
Deborah enjoys a good challenge, whether that’s mountain biking, rock climbing or designing fun crochet patterns. She finds inspiration almost everywhere and enjoys playing with stitches and techniques to create practical or whimsical designs....Read More
Robin Nickerson
Robin's attraction to the world of fiber started when she was a child and her mom taught her to crochet. After an intermission of a "few" years and with the arrivals of her daughters, she picked up her hooks again to create baby blankets and...Read More
Brandi Isham
Brandy Lynn
Isabella Garramone
Bella grew up in both New York and New Jersey. As a recent college graduate, she is an emerging professional in the field of environmental education by day and a crocheter by night. As a result of her day job, Bella is always inspired by nature and...Read More
Carol Schoenfelder
Carol was taught crochet by her grandmother many, many years ago but is a self-taught knitter. She loves to start with a basic idea and see where it takes her - knitting and crocheting for the fun of it - not necessarily for the final product. Born...Read More
Patti Notestine
Patti Notestine lives in beautiful Pennsylvania and is a homemaker. She started crocheting in 1980 and began designing in 2010 when she opened an Etsy shop to sell her designs. Her designs specialize in footwear. When not designing, she is...Read More
Melissa Harr
Melissa is an itinerant writer and knitting pattern designer -- she travels constantly in order to draw inspiration from a variety of language, cultures, and people. She is currently based in Europe, where she drinks too much coffee and spends most...Read More
April Garwood
April Garwood has been designing crochet and knit patterns since 2010. Her patterns have appeared in I Like Crochet, Interweave Crochet, Crochet!, Crochet World, and Crochet Today (discontinued). She has also designed patterns for Ancient Arts Fibre...Read More
Jessica Potasz
Elizabeth Ann Smith
Elizabeth Smith lives with her husband and their two crazy little boys in rural Iowa. She loves designing beautiful crochet items, incorporating flowers whenever possible. Keep up with Elizabeth and her crochet adventures on Instagram @ProchetByEAS...Read More
Manda Shah
Manda Shah lives in Toronto, Ontario. After taking a break from a career in Information Technology she picked up knitting as a creative hobby and moved on to designing knitted items. She loves to combine lace and cable patterns to create beautiful...Read More
Arica Presinal
Arica is the owner and maker behind Skeinsnsticks Designs. She loves mixing her love of fashion and yarn to create fabulous garments. Skeinsnsticks Designs is all about creating stylish, on trend, and quality handmade...Read More
Rebecca Velasquez
Rebecca Velasquez learned to crochet at a very young age. As an adult, she resumed crocheting to honor the grandmother who taught her how. She quickly fell in love and, following her passion and a desire to build upon it, added knitting and spinning...Read More
Darla Fanton
Darla J. Fanton has been a needlework designer for over thirty years. Perhaps best known for her pioneering work with Tunisian and the double-ended crochet hook, Darla enjoys all forms of crochet. She is constantly experimenting to discover what new...Read More
Devani Adams
Devani Adams is a designer living in sunny Silicon Valley. By day, she researches and writes about global environmental law issues. By night, she enjoys all things yarn-y! Hailing from the Northeast states (upstate New York, Vermont, and Maine), she...Read More
Dana Byerwalter
Dana Byerwalter is an editor for Prime Publishing. She learned to crochet almost as soon as she was hired in 2013 after exploring Prime's site AllFreeCrochetAfghanPatterns.com, and she loves making projects for friends and family. Scarves are her...Read More