I’ve been designing thread crochet patterns since 2016, with a particular love for texture, rhythm, and expressive surfaces. I tend to think of these pieces less as traditional doilies and more as mandalas — small, intricate objects that can exist in many different ways.

At one point in my life, crochet became more than a creative practice. The repetitive rhythm of making gave me a sense of steadiness and became a kind of meditation — a reason to slow down, turn my attention inward, and make space for myself. I think some of that experience still lives in these designs: in their repetition, their circular shapes, and in the quiet time it takes to make them.

In creating them, I’ve also been interested in pushing at the boundaries of what thread crochet — and the traditional crochet doily in particular — can become. I explore how far texture can be developed, how stitches can be placed in unexpected ways, and how familiar motifs such as pineapples, petals, and floral forms can be disrupted, exaggerated, or brought into sharper focus.

Crochet is an incredibly versatile technique. It can create surfaces that are open or dense, flat or highly dimensional, delicate or almost sculptural. Increasingly, I’m interested in what happens when an object as familiar and utilitarian as a crochet doily is approached instead as a textile artwork — and as a place where technical skill, invention, and artistic expression can be made visible.

Domestic handcraft has often been valued primarily for its usefulness, while the knowledge, imagination, and mastery involved in making it remained less visible. Through my designs, I want even a small everyday object to have the space to show both the complexity of the technique and the hand of the maker behind it.

At the same time, these projects are deliberately accessible in scale. Most can be made with just one or two balls of crochet thread and a hook, and many are relatively quick to complete. Once finished, they can become doilies, dreamcatchers or sun catchers, framed textile art, wall pieces, or decorative elements for bags, clothing, and other handmade objects.

Over the years, my designs have been made by crocheters around the world, and pieces created from my patterns have received first-place awards and ribbons at local craft fairs. Seeing the designs take on new lives in other people’s hands has been one of the most rewarding parts of sharing my work. For me, a pattern is only a starting point — a structure you can follow, reinterpret, and make your own.

If you’d like to make one of these designs yourself, you can explore the full pattern collection in my Ravelry and Etsy shops.