How to Crochet Like Olek

And why you should give it a whirl

If you are not familiar with the work of the crocheter known as Olek, the best way I know how to describe it is to say that it is like crocheting out loud. It is not a quiet and reserved doily, it is not an unobtrusive scarf. It is big, it is bold, and it is often pink.

For the most part Olek’s work is an assemblage of the pieces that others have made under her direction, and those pieces are used to form art that is much larger than the sum of its parts.

August 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina

I have a bazillion things to do, and that is a conservative estimate.

We are in the process of buying a house 1747 miles away from where we currently live. We have no immediate plans to leave North Carolina, but we are buying the house anyway.

The fact that we have not made any plans to leave North Carolina does not mean that we don’t need to sell the house we live in, we just aren’t doing that first.

Life decisions loom. There is a lot to be done.

And it is state fair season.

I am supposed to be working on a crochet afghan commemorating the life of my paternal grandmother. She died in 1948, and I was not born for another 12 years…