Poetryarn

When and how did you come up with the idea of creating your social media and website to share your work?

I come from the company Sacocharte. Customizing & Design Craftwork, where I was a co-founder and where we specialized in XL crochet. Poetryarn came two years later when I realized, after working for many years, that I had a new way of understanding crochet and therefore something to offer.

When I have an idea, I go all in, and that's how I set up my website, my social media, and how I currently approach my work. A few months after starting, the main brands in the sector, as well as Domestika, where I am a teacher of two Tapestry crochet courses, and the art and architecture publisher Monsapublications from Barcelona, with whom I published my first book, which is bringing me so much joy here and in America, all supported my project. This support also helped me gain momentum and understand that I should continue sharing everything I knew with others.

What do you like most about dedicating yourself to design?

The possibility of going from idea to physical form is artistically incredible. In the design process itself, I really enjoy creating patterns or diagrams, because I either work on very complex designs that I manage to fit into a figure, such as writing in a circle, working with geometry and mathematics, or bringing the concept of other artistic disciplines to crochet, as well as applying messages.

My designs always have a message to convey or a very elaborate structure in terms of new possibilities and ways of creating motifs (such as working with form and background, for example), and that's what keeps me going.

I really like to work on a complex concept or motif and convey that knowledge in an easy way.

What inspires you when creating new products?

This is very much related to why I dedicate myself to design. What truly drives me is the ability to convey a message and to create in a different way, precisely in that mixture of thread design and message (hence "poetry" and "yarn"). Starting from there, which is already a distinct concept from what has always been understood about crochet, I like to design with a purpose, not just work hard on a piece that looks amazing, but rather I'm inspired by the value I want to convey, the possibility of telling those who see it that they can break with the established, that one must look beyond the obvious, that different things can still be brought to this technique and applied in different ways, and above all, to create your own language and break the rules. That your project is personal and that disciplines can be united if one believes in it and, of course, with a lot of work behind it.

On the other hand, I am also inspired by having direct contact with those who are passionate about my work as much as I am and want to dedicate themselves to it or improve their technique, and being there side by side to help people surpass themselves and show them in less time what I have learned in over 20 years. It is very important to share knowledge, otherwise it is lost. The imprint is mine, and everyone has their own imprint; being able to see the Poetryarn mark in other hands is very beautiful, and helping other people to excel or even set up their own handmade business, which happens to me. It's lovely.

What is your next challenge?

If we're talking about Poetryarn, it's always books where I can showcase new designs and new poems, aphorisms, or my way of looking at the world, although this always goes step by step. I'm not in a hurry; for me, it's important to fill myself with experiences and to think that things should happen at their own time, neither before nor after.

At the same time, working on Poetryarn, I've realized that I'm passionate about projects involving thousands of people and where I have direct contact with the involvement of other creative individuals, as happened with the success of manoalzada8m.

Inspiring other people or being a bridge myself for them to inspire each other and create bonds is also important to me. Ultimately, challenges have to do with self-improvement and this with passion, love, with feeling peace within oneself and, why not, conveying to others that this is the most important thing. So all the challenges I have in mind are related to this.

Personally, I am still studying, so that also poses a daily challenge that I balance with my work at Poetryarn and with other activities I engage in.

An anecdote?

They are not strictly anecdotes, but rather facts that I like or that have happened: I love it when they say my designs don't look like crochet. The opportunity my project has given me to meet some people behind artists I've admired for years, for example.

Or meeting people from all over the world, with different languages, professional situations, personal lives; that is very enriching. Something that strikes me is that I have many profound conversations (I could call them that) with many of Poetryarn's followers. They always approach me saying that I inspire confidence and positive energy in them, that they have started a business based on what they learn in my courses, or that their day has improved because they read something I wrote. That is very gratifying.