There is something really special about watching a skein of yarn leave my hands and become something entirely its own in someone else's.
When I started Motherhook Fiber & Co., I knew I wanted this little yarn company to be about more than yarn.
I wanted it to be about the stories we tell through the things we make. The seasons of life that find their way into our stitches. The colors that remind us of people, places, memories, and pieces of ourselves.
And, maybe most of all, I wanted it to be about community.
That is exactly what the Motherhook Makers Collective has become.
This summer, I have the absolute joy of working alongside seven incredibly talented makers, each with their own style, perspective, favorite things to make, and reason for picking up a hook.
And I thought it was time you got to know them a little better 🤎
✨ Maker Spotlights ✨
Meet Megan T.
Instagram: @yippeekiyaycrochet
Megan couldn't choose just one favorite flower—and after reading her answer, I don't think she should have to.
Dahlias for their personalities. Hydrangeas for their lasting beauty. Lavender for its healing qualities.
She loves every shade of green and gravitates toward late summer and early fall—that little in-between season when mornings begin to feel crisp but afternoons still hold onto summer.
But it was the project she chose for the Collective that really got me.
Megan is creating a mixed-media heirloom blanket for her daughter's first day of kindergarten.
She's quilted pieces of her daughter's babyhood into it: her hospital hat, favorite onesies, birthday clothing, and pieces connected to important milestones. She's then using Motherhook Fiber & Co. yarn to crochet those pieces together.
She's working with Cake for Breakfast and The Light You Carry, and even the colorway names hold meaning.
Her daughter's name, Eileen, means light.
And, according to Megan, she is also "quite certainly a party."
This is exactly the kind of making I love most.
Something beautiful, yes.
But also something filled with a story that couldn't belong to anyone else.
Meet Megan G.
Instagram: @withlovefrommuffin
Our second Megan is another blanket lover—and she's finally making something she's wanted for herself for a long time.
The Island Time Blanket by NautikrallCrochet, made with beautiful hand-dyed yarn.
Megan loves dahlias, coneflowers, maroon, and springtime when everything begins blooming again. When she crafts, there's usually something playing in the background while she works.
For her Collective project, she's diving into a blanket using colors from Garden Party, along with some OOAK skeins, Pressed Petals and Rainwashed Green.
There is something particularly satisfying about taking a project you've had tucked away in your mind and finally deciding, Okay. It's time.
I can't wait to watch this one grow stitch by stitch.
Meet Sheena
Instagram: @craftandyouwillfind
Ask Sheena to choose a favorite flower and the answer is basically: all of them.
But sunflowers might have a slight advantage.
She loves purple, spring and fall, cozy home décor, and blankets—which she describes as her comfort project.
And her Collective project could not fit her more perfectly.
She's making a peony bunting inspired by the Garden Party collection.
Sheena didn't know exactly what she wanted to make until she started seeing the Garden Party colorways. Once she did, she knew the project needed to be floral.
After tossing around granny-square ideas—and brainstorming with the rest of us in the Collective—she decided to transform her Peony granny square into triangles and create a bunting.
It feels like the sweetest intersection of her own creative style and the world of Garden Party.
She'll be using various Garden Party colors throughout it, and I already want to hang one somewhere in my house.
Meet Cierra
Instagram: @mamabearmadeco
Cierra is drawn to daisies, the color blue, fall, and—my favorite answer—making anything her daughter will actually wear.
Because maker moms know that approval from your tiny client may be the toughest review you'll ever receive 😂
Unlike some of our audiobook-loving makers, Cierra usually crochets in silence, with the occasional side of chaos and coffee.
Her Collective project is taking shape as a cardigan inspired by a stitch pattern she's currently using for a wrap-top design.
She loves the stitch enough that she wanted to explore what else it could become.
Her vision is something between a cardigan and a lightweight house coat, complete with a tie, using colors from Garden Party.
She's currently leaning toward one of the greens—but she's leaving room for the yarn to change her mind.
And I LOVE that.
Sometimes the best projects aren't completely planned before we begin. We let the colors, stitches, and process tell us where they want to go.
Meet Rebecca "Bex"
Instagram: @crochet.by_bex
Bex loves sunflowers, yellow, fall, audiobooks—particularly romantasy—and blankets.
But for the Collective, she's stepping into something different.
She's creating the Subtle Sprout Cardigan/Pullover, a freeform wearable using Garden Party colorways.
And the reason behind it matters.
Bex wanted to create a wearable that didn't look like the classic granny-square garment and didn't require her to force her body into the parameters of a pattern.
She wanted the freedom to create something around her own shape and body.
Finding wearable patterns with meaningful plus-size representation can be difficult, and instead of waiting for the perfect pattern to appear, Bex decided to explore creating something herself.
Something beautiful.
Something she feels beautiful wearing.
And hopefully something that gives another maker permission to experiment, adjust, freeform, and create for the body they're actually making for.
I am incredibly excited to watch this project unfold.
Meet Sydney
Instagram: @the_loopy_mama
Sydney is our peony-loving, aqua-and-sage-green, fall-obsessed wearable maker.
Give her a project, an audiobook, and some beautiful yarn and she's pretty much set.
For the Collective, Sydney chose the Finley Cardi.
Her reasoning was wonderfully simple:
It's her next big project, and it felt perfect for special yarn.
Honestly? Sometimes that is reason enough.
She's planning to work with Garden Party, and I cannot wait to see how she brings the collection into a wearable in her own style.
Meet Melissa "Melly" "Mel"
Instagram: @melissa_made_that
If you've been around Motherhook Fiber & Co. for a while, Melissa probably isn't a new name around here.
Melissa is a blanket maker at heart, a lover of fall, purple, daisies, film scores and audiobooks—and someone whose creativity I absolutely adore.
For her Collective project, she's taking the Cozy Joy squares and turning them into a notions bag.
Which feels especially full-circle because Cozy Joy began as a collaboration between the two of us.
The idea had apparently been "rattling around" in her brain, and the Collective gave her the perfect excuse to start playing with it. Rather than following something completely predetermined, she's planning to design and create as she goes.
And really... can you ever have too many project bags?
She's hoping to bring some of the Garden Party colors into the finished piece, too, tying two Motherhook chapters together in one project.
I cannot wait to see where she takes it.
Seven Makers. Seven Completely Different Stories.
This might be my favorite part of the Collective.
Everyone is receiving Motherhook Fiber yarn.
And somehow, we're ending up with an heirloom kindergarten blanket, a notions bag, floral bunting, cardigans, a freeform size-inclusive wearable, and beautiful blankets.
Same little fiber world.
Completely different hands.
Completely different stories.
That's what making is.
One of my favorite parts of dyeing yarn has always been imagining where it will eventually end up. I can dream up the colors and name them and tell you the stories that inspired them—but eventually, I get to hand them over.
Ask them about what they're making.
And maybe let their willingness to experiment inspire you to make something that's been rattling around in your own brain, too.
Because Motherhook Fiber & Co. may make the yarn...
but YOU are the ones who give it a life beyond the skein.
And I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful for that.
