I’m Tegan, a wife, Mum of 3 kids and 2 dachshunds from the beautiful Sunshine Coast. Besides my family and crochet, my other passions are gardening, reading, cake decorating and researching my family ancestory. I love comedy, crime docos and romance movies but hate horror. I’m a firm believer in women building each other up and supporting one another and am very fortunate to be surrounded by some amazing women.

My mother in law showed be some basic crochet in 2016 and I was ‘hooked’, I then began dabbling in design in 2017. Crochet design helps me embrace my creative side, I’ve always loved art, creative writing and other craft mediums. I love the problem solving that goes along with making a new creation work. I like to produce patterns that are suitable for all skill levels and am a huge fan of texture, and I believe that’s represented in my designs.

My favoured yarn is fingering weight cotton blends and I despise sewing in ends so use a lot of gradient transitional yarn in my patterns. I also like to use hand dyed yarn and am lucky enough to have some amazing indie yarn dyers right here in Australia to support.

You can follow me on social media on facebook or instagram. You can also join my Facebook community for pattern support or just to share your Howes The Crochet creations.