Welcome to XY Craft Studio
What’s XY Craft Studio?
XY Craft Studio creates easy-to-follow crochet patterns for crafters of all levels and develops crochet kits (coming soon) with video and photo tutorials for casual makers. We invite you to make something with yarn and thread, stitch by stitch, and take pleasure in each small step of the creative process.
The name “XY” suggests unknowns or variables. We like the idea of a name that, rather than being one specific thing, can be full of possibilities—just like our lives. We hope XY can be a corner for creativity when you would like to explore something new in your life. Let’s stay curious and make something.
Many of us have heard the phrase “make something of yourself,” encouraging or even exhorting us to be more than we are. In crafting, we take this as a creative challenge: when you make something with your hands, it comes from you: it’s something of yourself.
Why did I start XY Craft Studio?
My name is Nora, and I started XY Craft Studio in the summer of 2022. Thank you for stopping by. When I picked up crochet several years ago, I didn’t envision it as a potential business. To be honest, I was just looking for a relaxing distraction from uncertainties in my life at that time. As my experimenting took me from making simple granny squares to increasingly ambitious flower blossoms (that orchid pattern will make it to the website one day!), I felt a sense of achievement whenever I made something new. How great to change formless yarn into decorative and functional pieces!
Crochet showed me that I could make something and helped me focus on the current moment. Wanting to share that delightful, almost meditative experience with others, I began to write down my crochet patterns, starting with the sun-themed coasters and pumpkins that would soon launch XY Craft Studio.
And just as every finished piece grows stitch by stitch, I am developing XY Craft Studio step by step. Crochet projects are the starting point and heart, but I am also working on bringing you more fun projects beyond crochet soon.
Happy crafting!