Welcome!

Hello, my name is Sheryl Means.

Crochet has been a part of my life for more than fifty years. For many of those years, crochet was the hobby I periodically returned to when someone had a baby or graduated from high school. I love to make blankets. I just never made any for myself. That is going to change.

During the knitting boom of the early 2000s, I jumped onboard and then found myself in business with my partner in knitting. We opened Yarntopia in April 2006, ushering in a life-changing era for me. For the following eleven years, yarn was my life. As all things do, this era came to an end in 2017. After managing the store alone for three years, I was ready for rest and a change.

The gift of this time in the yarn business was the opportunity to test my abilities as a crochet designer. I had several patterns published in Interweave Crochet and Crochet! magazines, as well as two books with Leisure Arts. I was also selected to contribute to two compilation books.

The whole world for me changed following Hurricane Harvey, and then Covid. Burn out and life forced me to set design aside for many years. During this time away from business, I focused on crochet as an art form. Now, I am ready to combine all these skills to bring my crochet aesthetic to life.

My style of crochet is based in a firm foundation of traditional methods and techniques, but then I turn those things loose and wait to see what happens. I am excited to bring my vision to life and help you inject a bit of art and whimsy into your world.

Thank you for visiting.

Sheryl

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This is the next stage in my flower garden blanket. I want this to be very organic so the joining will be fluid around flowers and leaves (not made yet). I have two additional greens I will be using for shading and depth. For contrast the leaves will
Sometimes life is like walking on an uneven sidewalk. You can be going along, stepping carefully, then all of a sudden boom! You trip and fall. That is what the last two weeks have been like over here in my little world. So here is a something from t
I made this while watching Ted Lasso and somehow the petals got longer then shorter. 🤔 I Almost tore it out…but stopped because I like the perspective it gives the sunflower. When I learned tole painting, this is how I learned to paint daisie
Reading is such a wonderful way to gain inspiration for art. This book was the selection for February for my Three Friends Book Club. We read and the crochet a square. The first picture is the square I made for this book. These will be used in a proj
I posted a tease of this bracelet when I finished it. Now that it has been gifted, I can share the full view. I am in my ‘Crochet Flower Power’ era. I love all the modern abstract style flowers I can think up. The base is single crochet
I am nearly finished with the flower portion of my freestyle flower garden blanket for my great granddaughter. I’m finding great satisfaction in working slowly, and with intention.
One of the things I love most about life right now is the book club I belong to with two dear friends. We are making a crochet granny square based on each book we read. I also made this freeform art piece with hand spun yarn I had spun. I absolute lo
Freeform crochet with Noro is magical.
Digging back in my photo archives. Life is crazy and I’m not creating much at the moment. From clumps of fiber to mini batts to yarn and finally an small piece of crochet art. My favorite process.
There is no aspect of spindle spinning that I don’t love. Thank you @battyfibers for my new bobbins and whorl. I love my spindle set up.