Tricia Hodson Finds Wide Interest In Her Crocheted And Knit Creations
When Tricia Hodson opened up a shop on Etsy two years ago, her sigh of relief was likely heard all around Garrettsville, her home of 11 years. Gone was her concern that her crocheted and knit creations would bomb locally.
“My neighbor doesn’t have to love them,” the stay-at-home mother of two said lightly. If long, fingerless gloves hold no appeal for people who winter in Northeast Ohio, she said, maybe someone in Australia would want them.“I was kicking myself, wishing I’d joined Etsy sooner,” she said.
When Hodson, 44, taught herself to crochet and knit six years ago, she started with what she calls “typical craft show crochet stuff,” but her interest deepened to a love “of all things fiber.”
“I love creating with yarn,” Hodson said, and she stocks her shop accordingly. She loves to crochet shawls and ponchos, so she makes lots of them. Her 11-year-old daughter has at least four ponchos, she said. Same for fingerless gloves, which take her about two hours to crochet, or two days to knit.
Since she is seldom without yarn and a crochet hook, she’s able to keep her store stocked with 60 or so items and have enough to supply her bookings on the holiday craft show circuit, which will be in full swing in mid-November. She prefers natural fibers, which are more expensive than synthetics, but she uses synthetics to keep items affordable.
Photo by Bethany L King.
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