PhoenixRiverDesigns

I’ve lived on the Central Coast of NSW in Australia all of my life. I come from an extremely crafy family and from the time I could pick up a needle I’ve been doing some form of craft or another.
I’ve been crocheting since I was a kid, my grandmother taught me when I was 7 years old.

I had my beautiful son in 2003 he has autism and severe mental health disabilities.
I met my amazing wife and step daughter in 2012 and we were married in 2013 and still going strong.

In late 2016 whilst stopped at red light another car crashed into mine at over 70kmh. This resulted in my spine herniating in 4 places and losing the use of my legs. I’ve had 1 surgery so far which was a partial success and thanks to intensive rehabilitation I can walk again with a walking stick. But I'm left in chronic pain and unable to feel the lower half of both legs.

It was at this point in my life that I took crocheting up full time to keep me busy and not go insane from being unable to work, I did my first ever graphgan at the beginning of my injury and fell in love with them, so started designing my own to make for friends and family. That’s how I came to start selling. My family encouraged me to edit my designs and put them into pattern form to sell and sell my finished projects and items I've made and as they say the rest is history.

I hope you enjoy my works and making my patterns as much as I enjoy making and designing them.

Blesseings
Dimity Parker 
Phoenix River Designs