I make things with my hands. Ceramics, cooking, flower arranging, ten plants I keep alive, and now yarn.
I model, which means a lot of my life happens in casting lines and makeup chairs. There is always waiting. I started bringing a hook and a ball of yarn to fill it, and now I carry yarn, a hook, and an iPad everywhere I go.
I learned to crochet when I was seven. Then I put it down for fourteen years. I picked it back up in August 2026, and the Birkin bag was the first thing I made.
One month after picking up a hook again. I say that because it matters. These patterns are written clearly enough that someone who just started can follow them, and I know that because I was someone who just started.
That bag took 35 hours. I tested yarn until I found one that held a corner, sketched the shape, worked it, ripped it out, worked it again. Every decision went into my iPad as I went. Then I charted it properly, photographed it, and wrote it down so someone else could make it too.
People kept asking for the patterns. So here we are.
Everything in this shop works the same way. I design it, make it, break it, fix it, and document the whole thing. Nothing gets published until I have made it myself and know it works.
If you are thinking about picking this up, do it. Fourteen years is a long time to be away from something, and I was terrible for the first week. Believe in yourself and start anyway. I hope you fall in love with it, or back in love with it, the way I did.
Rena