Made in Rox

When and how did the idea of creating your online space come about?

I’ve been crocheting and knitting since I was very little, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I considered sharing my creations. A moment came when I decided to create the website madeinrox.com to upload my designs, both so I could recreate them whenever I wanted by having everything noted down, and to share them with the community of knitters and crocheters who gradually joined, making each of those patterns even more meaningful.

What do you like most about dedicating yourself to design?

I love being able to give an exact shape to a garment exactly as I've imagined it. Going through the process of inspiration, to arrive at an idea in a sketch, and from there to materialize it with needles and yarn seems like a magical process to me.

But without a doubt, what I like most is when other people follow my patterns. Feeling that I am part of the garment they wear or knowing that a garment I designed has been knitted in different parts of the world makes me tremendously happy.

What inspires you when creating new products?

To be honest, I'd say it's my own needs. When a new season approaches, I think about what I'd like to find in a store and wouldn't be able to resist buying.

When I design products for the home or decor, inspiration also usually comes from what I'd like to find in a store but can't; being able to design it from start to finish to my liking is wonderful.

What is your next challenge?

I’ve just become a mom, so my next challenges will come hand-in-hand with the little one. His needs will be mine, so I think my next challenge is to get well acquainted with baby and children's sizes, to create crochet and knitting patterns for them, and, who knows, maybe even introduce some sewing into these patterns. I am very eager to innovate and create in this world of motherhood that is opening up for me.

An anecdote?

My grandmother taught me the wonderful world of crochet when I was very little. The only thing I would knit was a crochet top every summer, without a pattern or anything, just "by eye" as she liked it. She would teach me to create it from scratch every summer, and boy, did I show off that top all summer long!

Now she is very old and can no longer knit, and it comforts me to know that in some way everything I do now has its origins in her and in those summers in .