Hello all and Happy Thanksgiving! I could not celebrate this holiday without expressing my deep gratitude to all of you. To the many of you who visit our website, comment on our IG posts, participate in our Daisy Farm Crafters Group on Facebook, or watch my YouTube tutorials, I am sending you a giant internet hug. I am so grateful to have you all as my crochet friends.
As many of you know, November didn’t start off very well for me. My mom passed away suddenly and I spent the first two weeks of the month in Colorado, my childhood home, gathering with family, making funeral arrangements and sorting through memories.
It was a difficult time as you can imagine, but also a blessed time and this blanket I’m holding up in the photo above is one of those blessings. This was the first completed blanket project I had ever made. I remember making it for my mom for Christmas one year. I think I was 20 years old and newly married.
As my sisters and I were sorting through memorabilia, we came across the blanket and my eyes welled with tears that my mom kept it for so many years. I had completely forgotten all about it.
I barely knew what I was doing back then, the ends are barely woven in, and there are not near enough stitches around the corners to make a good edge. But I sure admire my bravery in thinking that I could make this and gift it.
It is priceless to me now. I need to repair it and I’m going to somehow get it displayed in my Daisy Farm Crafts room. That was my last project until thirty or so years later, when I started to crochet in hopes to become a grandma and started this website.
As of today, we have published around 600 crochet patterns, mostly blanket patterns, but also hats, scarves, mittens, and hot pads. I recently went back and read a post I wrote called How It All Began, and I just can’t believe we are in our ninth year of sharing our crochet.
It started out as just me, but then Hannah started sharing her patterns and from time to time I’ve had all of my daughters design and share–Nicolina, Haley and Annie. Haley has transitioned to helping behind the scenes with the social media accounts, and runs the Etsy shop. And, we’ve added my daughter-in-law Elizabeth as our Pinterest specialist. Annie crochets in her spare time, but she also loves to run our Daisy Farm Kitchen website where we collect our family recipes.
My heart just fills with gratitude for what crochet has brought to my family. The hope of becoming a grandma finally did happen four years ago and now I have four darling grandkids to crochet for. (They will all be with me for Christmas and I can’t wait to show you what I am working on for them.)
So thank you for being here, some of you from the very beginning, and letting me continue to create and share. It’s been an important tradition that has been in my family for years. As I also learned from looking through my mom’s memories, I come from a long line of crocheters. I’m from Italian immigrants who brought this beautiful tradition with them and it continues to inspire me to this day.
(The above is a photograph of my grandma Rose with my mom as a little girl. I learned how to crochet from my mom, who learned it from hers. I look at that photo with so much love and admiration.)
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day, I truly am grateful to each one of you.
All my love, Tiffany
