Return to Tiny World: Adventures in Micro- Crochet

After knitting for forty years, I just learned to crochet this summer. I wanted to learn because it seemed (and I have found it to be true) easier to think in three dimensions, sculpturally, in crochet than it is in…

I “Lucky” was one of my earliest knit portrait subjects. His portrait was my introduction to the challenge of depicting a white dog, with only black and white yarns, at extremely low resolution. His micro-crochet model, which now also lives…

Tiny World, in our house, was the box where the very smallest toys ended up. We called a lot of them “Polly Pockets” (after the ubiquitous tiny dolls with even tinier accessories) even though most of them technically weren’t that…