Crochet is My Life

Faye’s passion for crocheting afghans began with donating finished projects to hospices. Eventually, she found her a local charity organization in Project Linus where she regularly donates to.

Even though I learned to crochet at 10 years of age, I didn’t continue the hobby through my teenage years. I learned to sew instead and made all my clothes. When I was 21, I bought a crochet afghan kit and gave the finished afghan to my mother. Around 33, I made another afghan for myself. I continued to make clothes for myself and my husband so I really didn’t have time to crochet. When my mother was in hospice in 2004, when I was 54 yrs old, I found out people donated afghans to the hospice to give to the patients’ families. After my mother died, I crocheted several afghans for the hospice. The hospice was located in Florida and I lived in Northern Virginia. When my sister would visit me from Florida, she would deliver the afghans to the hospice. When my sister could no longer travel, I had to find another charity locally as I did not want to spend postage to ship the afghans to Florida. Most every charity was outside the Northern Virginia area. Finally, Project Linus opened in the area. Most of my crochet projects are dedicated to making afghans for Project Linus.

I don’t have a large family to make crochet projects for, so crocheting for Project Linus is my passion. I have a personal connection with the women from Project Linus when I hand over the afghans. They tells me the tremendous demand for all sizes of afghans. I get such satisfaction in making the afghans for children. Incidentally, I get to learn many different techniques as I try to challenge myself with every afghan I make.

~ Faye