hi, there! my name is nátalia, i'm brazilian and my pronouns are she/her. i have been trying to crochet for my whole life, because i grow up watching my mom doing it and she tried to teach me, without sucess. so, i just decided to learn it on my own and it's working!! i've always been an artistic person and i've always liked fashion, so learning to crochet/knit is a way of telling my inner child that she can express herself. of course, i'm still in the process, but what counts is that i'm trying.

i don't have any other social networks, so if you want to talk to me about anything, just send me a message.

✶ projects ✶ right now i'm making pink and red granny squares and i honestly don't how to use them yet. i'm thinking about a vest and maybe a maatching bag or a blouse with the same pattern.

my next projects are: make a green and blue scoodie and maybe crochet a dress.

and, of course, knitting something, which i've been procrastinating, but i have faith in myself.

you can check everything related in #hookednati (for crochet) and #knittednati (for knit)

I realized there is a long time I don't post stuff in here and it doesn't necessarily means that I stopped crochet, so here is a major update of everything I did since April (last post). I'm doing this now so I can just go ahead of it and post the future things instead of be always "nah, i need to post in order to follow my progress" and then never post again, again. Starting with the three projects that were on the list in the pinned post:

The pink summer vest, which is my favorite piece to date. It was made with a fine thread, Clea Duplo from the Brazilian brand Círculo, and although it took a LONG time, I loved the result and want to buy more of this yarn to make other wearable pieces.

I finished it at the end of March.

After that, I made two orange sweaters, one for me and one for my beloved. They are identical and took a lot of work. I tried to follow a pattern, but it was poorly written, and in the end, I had to follow my intuition. I made mine first and then made their, but even my intuition wasn't good enought for how I wanted it to be. It's wearable, but quite problematic. It's difficult to take off, and the cuffs are tight, so you can't pull it up, plus it takes up a lot of space when folded. The good thing is that it's VERY warm.

I started at the beginning of April and finished the second one in mid-May.

My friend's mermaid top. It was supposed to be a birthday present, but it took me a while to finish it because I ran out of yarn halfway through and it took me a long time to find the same one again. Besides that, it was a Frankenstein-like project: I took the bust from one tutorial, the body from another, the sleeves from a third, and the back from a fourth, because I couldn't find anything that was exactly what I wanted to give her. It took me so long that she ended up losing weight and the top became loose, so she improvised a way to wear it.

She allowed me to post this photo and said I didn't need to blur her face.

What these three projects taught me was that patience is truly a gift. And that crocheting for someone has to be for someone you love, because it takes a lot of work and a lot of time. It's not just the piece itself, it's the care taken in choosing the material, the design, spending days making it and thinking about the person, what they will think, if it will fit or not.