March 4: A Tour through Crochet Country

It’s our fourth day of A Tour through Crochet Country, and today we’ll be visiting with Amy O’Neill Houck and Akua Lezli Hope.

[button link=”http://www.thehookandi.com/”]Today’s Stop 1: Visit Amy O’Neill Houck[/button]

Amy O’Neill Houck is an author and crochet and knitwear designer. Her articles and designs have appeared in many books and magazines. [AOH] Designs, Amy’s self-published pattern line, is known for “patterns that beautifully balance fit, style and creative, fun construction.”[1] Amy lives in Alaska and enjoys devising recipes. Back in 2007, Amy and I had patterns published in the same book, Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution, hers being the Mini Wrap Skirt and the very popular Baby Doll Dress, and mine was the Circle Motif Rug.

I love this Hemp Shawlettte from [AOH] Designs.

I’ve long admired Amy’s Alpine Frost Scarf. It’s so delicate!

 

[button link=”http://www.zencrochet.blogspot.com/”]Today’s Stop 2: Visit Akua Lezli Hope[/button]

Akua Lezli Hope is a woman of many creative talents and much perseverance. In addition to being a crochet designer, she is also an award-winning poet, writer, papermaker, glassmaker, and musician. She is assistant editor at Crochet Savvy, a free online magazine about fashion and crochet, which features up-and-coming crochet designers, bloggers, and yarn spinners. (Crochetville was featured in Crochet Savvy, Winter 2012, Vol. I Issue 4.) A look at Akua’s designs reveals a love of leaves and leaf-like shapes, and an affinity for texture and dimensional form.

I love the leaves, bobbles, and other adornments on Akua’s Cosy Apple Cozies.

 

This drawstring pouch, the top surrounded by a flurry of leaves, is an eye-catching essentials bag.

 

Good-Bye Until Tomorrow

I hope you enjoyed today’s stops visiting with Amy and Akua. Please come join us again tomorrow when we’ll visit with Mary Jane Hall  and Lindsey Stephens.

[button link=”http://positivelycrochet.blogspot.com/”]Visit Mary Jane Hall[/button] [button link=”http://poetryinyarn.com/blog/”]Visit Lindsey Stephens[/button]

Our Little Giveaway: Autographed Pattern Postcard

Today’s entries are closed. Winners: Congratulations to craftsandthings1 and Kathy West!

Each day of A Tour Through Crochet Country, we’ll be giving away two promo postcards, one to each of two winners. These are only available at our 2013 consumer show booths, and will be autographed by both of us, Amy Shelton and Donna Hulka, co-owners of Crochetville! The postcard includes Amy Shelton’s exclusive X Marks the Spot scarf pattern.

To enter, please leave a comment below answering this question: Where do you find crochet inspiration?

The fine print: Must be 13 or older to enter. Entries must be received by 12:00 midnight Pacific time on the date of this post. Winners will be selected by random drawing and notified by email the following day. Void where prohibited by law.

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