About Yarn Tale Collective
I picked up crocheting in my early stages of high school as a form of stress and anxiety relief due to severe depression, panic attacks and what began awful social anxiety. Crocheting was something that I maintained doing off and on throughout my four years of high school as well as my four years of college...
About a year ago, the crafter group at my church decided to make quilts that get donated to local shelters & hospitals. I didn’t know how to quilt, but I sure knew how to crochet! My evenings were further spent creating baby blankets that would get donated to sweet new bundles of joy! After donating several blankets, I wished I had of taken pictures of them and documented what they looked like and where it was going, etc. In came Yarn Tale Collective!
Yarn Tale is a spin-off of “yarn tail” in which I wanted to incorporate a story aspect to my creations. I’ve had family members that have gone through rough medical situations and received hand-made blankets and prayer shawls and you can’t imagine what it made them feel when receiving them. I can only hope that whoever receives my precious hand-made gifts will go away with a story of receiving it and how it made them feel.
Yarn Tale Collective is a collection of my heart and soul poured into crochet and knit projects that are given to those that are experiencing struggle and hardships in their life, just as I had been when I first began crocheting. A little bit of my heart and soul hopefully wraps around each one of them when they hold it or wrap it around them. I can only hope they feel the love I felt while making it.
My love for crocheting has slowly become a “safe place” for me over time, but it’s not something I would normally tell those around me, especially during my time in college. I went to a local private Christian college, John Brown University, where crocheting and knitting was the “hipster” thing to do and it was “on-trend”, therefore you kind of got made fun of or stereotyped for it. No one had the right to make something I cherished into something bad because I was trying to “do something to be cool”. So I pretty much kept it a secret until after I graduated.
About a year after post-grad, I decided I was ready to be a little vulnerable with everyone and introduce Yarn Tale Collective. I wanted to create a safe place for others to escape to and learn like I did so many years ago when I was struggling and on the brink of insanity and losing myself. Yarn Tale Collective is my little piece of sanity for the world to see and hopefully my creations and projects are wrapped around loved ones, sick ones, healthy ones and everyone else to bring a little piece of my heart to their insanity as well!
Proceeds from the Yarn Tale Collective Etsy shop go towards:
(1) Keeping YarnTaleCollective.com running and offering free content.
(2) Supplies for baby blankets, lap blankets, stuffed animals, etc. that get donated to my local hospital, VA hospital and shelters.
(3) Supplies to make more goodies to sell on here so others can tell their story!
(4) Help pay off my 50k debt of student loans (sighs)
