This week we're turning the Spotlight to our talented 2024 Designers! Join us each day as we get to know a different 2024 Pattern Designer and learn what inspired their design!
Julia Insalaco is a long time crocheter, who learned to crochet from her mother, who learned from her mother. Over the years she’s not only enjoyed crocheting, but she has also enjoyed sewing (another skill she learned from her mother), embroidery, cross-stitching, and a little quilting. However, her fiber horizons were wonderfully expanded when she discovered the welcoming fiber family at the Clinch River Yarn Company. She has since added knitting, weaving, spinning, and -- of course -- Tunisian crochet to her fiber interests. She is a lifelong learner of everything fiber who enjoys sharing her love of fiber arts with anyone who wants to embark on their own fiber journey.
Julia can be found through Ravelry at Flyingdragon, through Facebook at Julia Insalaco, through email at insalacojw@gmail.com, and most Thursday afternoons at the Clinch River Yarn Company where her fiber family gathers to stitch and enjoy each other’s company.
Behind the Design:
The 2024 Great Tennessee Yarn Tour offered Julia an exciting opportunity to venture into pattern design; something she had often thought about doing for quite some time. So, with some hesitation, but a lot of encouragement, she entered a pattern for consideration for the Tour. As she had been recently experimenting with Tunisian crochet, and as Tunisian crochet seemed to be rising in popularity, she chose to design a simple, rectangular scarf that could be customized to the stitcher’s preferences. She wanted a pattern that only required introductory knowledge of Tunisian crochet allowing it to be available to someone just starting on their Tunisian crochet journey or allowing a more experienced Tunisian crocheter to enjoy a project that could be worked in many environments – while watching TV with the family or stitching with friends. And, of course, she wanted a pattern that included the wonderful Tennessee Yarn Tour colorways. She hopes you enjoy her Pop of Color Tunisian Crochet Scarf.
Connect with Julia:
Email: insalacojw@gmail.com
Ravelry: Flyingdragon
Facebook: Julia Insalaco
Comments