Creating Garments Using Crochet
Influences
A course by Alicia Recio Rodríguez , Nordic Crochet Designer and Yarnbomber
Joined November 2018
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My inspiration comes from my passions, my desires and my hobbies. I am in love with Life Style , with the urban as well as the countryside, with graffiti and art. Absolute fan of baroque, minimalism and letters. I like the boho and the Nordic. In short, I do not disgust anything and I love to dive into what I long for. This is where my creative processes are sometimes born. I put them together, expose them and merge them. What comes up. And something good always comes out.”
In this video lesson Alicia Recio Rodríguez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Garments Using Crochet. Learn to create colorful and textured garments using a crochet hook.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now I want to talk about my influences. As you'll have seen in the text I left in the course, I draw inspiration from many sources, from lifestyle, urban style, from the world of graffiti, from the world of influencers and the world of two needles. As I've expressed all this knowledge both in writing and in the form of links so you can access that knowledge yourself, I decided that in this lesson I'd show you two books that I find very interesting and that have shown me varying ways of understanding crochet and of doing designs that move away from the usual. First, I'd like to ta...”
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Course summary for: Creating Garments Using Crochet
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Category
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Areas
Crochet, DIY, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Textile Design

Alicia Recio Rodríguez
A course by Alicia Recio Rodríguez
Alicia, better known in the crochet world as Alimaravillas, is passionate about lifestyle trends and crochet design. She balances her career as a preschool principal in Huelva, Spain, with professional crocheting.
Her style is a cross between hipster and Nordic design, using minimal lines and simplistic patterns. She is a huge hit on Instagram as @alimaravillas, where she shares her patterns, trends, influences, and fashion interpretations.
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