u/ImmuredGirl

I think after a long search, I may have found my community. Hello! I’m a mom of a neurodivergent daughter. She has always been fascinated by my ability to crochet. She loves wearing my pieces. She does have ADHD, but she would sit and watch me crochet. “Wow. It’s like magic. I don’t understand how it goes in string but comes out clothes!”

I learned to crochet from my grandmother. She learned from her Aunt. That means I don’t know how to read or create a pattern because my mom’s generation is the first literate one in the family. My grandmother drove a bus for a living and I believe her aunt was a maid.

The first outfit pictured my daughter actually wore in a National Pageant and won as Miss Preteen Maryland. It represents colonialism in the colors of the Maryland State Flag (Red and White for Calvert, Black and Yellow for Baltimore). Too bad COVID shut the National Competition down.

One of things I’m proud of as a mom is how many times my daughter actually asked me to crochet her an outfit! And that’s no fine cotton or linen she’s wearing. I use only Red Heart craft yarn (about a medium 4) which is the same yarn that single handedly kept crafting accessible to Black Women since Reconstruction. I refuse to use anything else.

I’m not much of an artist but I do some great folk work in the pageantry world. This is a bunch of signage I did for my daughter’s natural hair pageant.

Hey, y’all! I’m just introducing myself. I specialize in hat and scarf designs, but I’m known to make a blanket or two as well. I learned crocheting from my grandmother who couldn’t read a pattern. I’m super proud to continue her art form.