The Introduction
Let’s keep this part a bit informal, shall we? Hello, my name is Brianna.

The Nut
I am a crocheter with no real background in design unless you count spending time as a young girl switching out plastic boards with different Barbie clothes etched into them. You know the kind, right? You place the little boards into their holder, lay a piece of paper over the top and roll the side of a crayon along the top of it? The etching would cause the paper to collect the most amount of crayon and, voila!, you are brilliant and stylish.

What I lack in any formal education I make up with, well, the desire to be top-notch, Grade-A, Spectacular-Spectacular, Amazingcakes! and, truthfully, I want to be known for providing sound patterns, with great technique and style. I want to share interesting patterns and classic shapes with you. I want to take the old and reshape it into a modern crochet wearable. I want to provide answers, or at least the names of people who can give them. So, here I am, with my (toot-toot) cleverly-named website, and the desire to share it all. (Except my physical address, phone number and weight.)

The Nut’s Crochet History
From the very beginning–we are going back to the exciting year of 2003! (okay, nothing much exciting happened)–I could not bring myself to stick to a pattern. To be honest with you, reader, I have maybe crocheted three things by pattern. Everything else I have crocheted stemmed from what is in my head. My first ever project was a horrible hat with a misshapen pom-pom (or is it pom-pon? I can never remember). I was extremely proud of that nasty bit of work. It was a light mint green with some fluffy baby cloud yarn for trim. Does it sound ugly? Because it was.

About two weeks after that I had found I was blessed with the ability to pick up crochet techniques really quickly; I was a crochet goddess, hurray! And there I was, crochet goddess extraordinaire, and I was crocheting crazy hats with bits of white stuff that looked like mini marshmallows, and hats made entirely out of 1/8” ribbon. Then it happened: I found a pattern somewhere online that showed me the “right” way to make a hat that was structurally sound. Increase for X amount of rows, then work evenly for X amount of rows, right? I made dozens of them. They were coming out of my ears, fully formed, that’s how much of a crochet goddess I was. Amazing me! Brilliant and awesome!

It was not until after I designed my first purse, and quite by accident as it was a silly idea I had for a friend’s birthday, when I realized what I could be doing with all this insane talent (har-d-har). I finished the purse for my friend, gave it to her, and then promptly borrowed it back so that I could visually dissect it in order to write up the pattern. I felt set and marvelous and eager to crochet some more. I was a powerhouse—a powder keg, ready to explode from jubilation because at last I had found something else to cling to when other things were giving me issues.

Crochet was the cure for the days I had writer’s block, or web design block, or when I had both and it felt like the days had turned into I’m-going-to-seriously-maim-at-least-20-people-today-if-they-don’t-leave-me-alone type of days. I seemed to have at least a few of these types of days, and still do (sorry, family and friends!) as I’ve started a small sketchbook for design ideas, some of which are already posted on this website. Some have yet to come.

The Nutshell
Here’s the deal: I’ll pretend the website is the proverbial water-cooler and we can all hang out here and talk about crochet, where it’s going, what’s going on, and whose book is coming out when. Sound good? No? Well, we can at least trade comments, tricks and tips, constructive thoughts, and link to each other, yes? Where—where are you going? Hey!

The End
Bye!