It always amazes me how small the crochet circle (or should I say loop) really is. A few weeks ago I purchased the latest issue of Crochet Today magazine on my lunch break. A great vest, a Rugged Winter Vest to be exact, caught my eye. Seeing “rugged” and “crochet” together is so rare I had no choice but to buy the magazine.
This morning, while browsing my crochet news sources I came across an article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that caught my eye, “Engineer hooked into a second career making crochet designs.” Well “engineer” and “crochet” is another pair of words that rarely are slip-stitched together and as you know from my Mensa Crochet and Math Off the Hook posts I totally get into smart-people crochet.
As I read the article I knew I immediately liked this engineer when I read in the article, ‘“People think [if you crochet] you have to be doing a blanket”…While there is nothing wrong with making afghans, she believes the craft is much more versatile.’ You go Robyn Chachula!
I was itching to see her work and was relieved to see her website listed in the article. I started in the design section and soon realized this is not some one-hook wonder. She’s been published well over a dozen times, has her own book, appearances on TV…and the list goes on.
By the time I got to the gallery section I was having hook envy and then I suddenly saw the Rugged Winter Vest. Ahh, full circle. I know, I know, it’s silly to get excited about seeing the pattern from the magazine I just bought on the designer’s website that I just learned about. But with all the minutes I had just invested reading about her, I felt like I knew her. And seeing the vest that she designed, I felt like she knew me. I’m at the point now (thirty-minutes later) that I feel like I can call her “RC!” Only her closest friends call her that (so I told myself).
Ugh. I’ve got to get out more.
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