Author: Tiffani

Thank you for stopping by! I have been a freelance writer since 1996. My essays and articles have appeared in all kinds of cool places, like Yahoo! News and Pennsylvania Magazine. My prose and poetry has been in Toe Good Poetry and The Feminine Collective. I am the author of two novels, a novella, several short stories, and one nonfiction book on freelance writing. I love vintage books, old movies, crochet (sometimes, knitting), good coffee (especially if it comes from Hava Java Cafe' in Allentown, PA), and writing. I'm always writing, which is how you got here in the first place. You followed my words from some other place to here. Thanks for that! I see characters and plots in true stories and everyday people. I teach English, ESL and crochet and a local community college and online. And if this sounds a little like yourself, make yourself at home here. Share your thoughts and opinions. Your art and your words. Everyone is welcome here, but comments are modified, and if you're a jerk, you're out.

A New Year, A New Hope

by Tiffani on January 4, 2021 in Crochet, crochet sweaters, grandmothers, knitting, love, memories, women, writing • 2 Comments

Happy New Year, pals. Yes, the pattern book is still on the burner, but as you know, we are all just climbing out of the remains of 2020, hoping for a much better 2021. Right now, at least in the United States, the coronavirus is still raging and has taken a good many lives and livelihoods. I would be telling…

Book Update

by Tiffani on October 4, 2020 in Uncategorized • 0 Comments

Dear pals, I’ve been dealing with some health issues, so the pattern book has been pushed back to December. It should be available then, and I will continue to updatw everyone soon. Thanks for your patience. I hope everyone is enjoying autumn. What are you all working on.

Memories

by Tiffani on August 28, 2020 in family, knitting, memories • 0 Comments

I woke up this morning really missing my aunt, who passed away suddenly in June. I feel like, when I knit (but only with good yarn), I’m talking to her. I think about my childhood in Oregon and California and how much I miss the Pacific Ocean, the Redwoods, the Cascades, and I remember that the last time I was…

What’s Mine Is Yours: Giveaways of a Sort

by Tiffani on August 17, 2020 in autumn, Crochet, etsy, facebook, knitting, love • 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I announced that I’d have a book of patterns coming out this fall. This is very exciting news. Not just for me, but for all the people out there who keep asking me for a pattern to some of the wacky designs I create off the top of my distracted head. Here’s another bit of…

Book News

by Tiffani on August 3, 2020 in Crochet, crochet sweaters, knitting, Patterns, tiffanilynnecrochet, writing • 2 Comments

My Dear Readers, my first book of patterns will be out in the fall! Info to come soon.

Suffering and Creativity

by Tiffani on July 22, 2020 in creativity, Crochet, faith • 0 Comments

Just hit up Google and you’ll find a million articles insisting that suffering and creativity go hand in hand. I know a lot of people disagree with this notion, but really, there are many examples of when someone under great duress created their masterpiece. Immediately, I think of the Russians, as they seem always to be most filled with good…

What would you write here?

by Tiffani on July 21, 2020 in Uncategorized • 0 Comments

There’s something so enticing about a clean slate, the option to start anew. Each season is a clean slate for me, a movement towards to the future. But sometimes, I actually stop and notice the present. I’ve passed by this sign, probably, a thousand times in the past decade, but today I stopped and took a photo. I thought to…

A Little Something for Everyone

by Tiffani on July 20, 2020 in Crochet, crochet sweaters, knitting • 0 Comments

…many knitters and crocheters make items for a size of women that, mostly, don’t exist–excruciatingly tiny girl-women. These patterns look great on models, but they look like potato sacks on the rest of us.

What Remains

by Tiffani on May 14, 2020 in authors, Crochet, crochet sweaters, education, family, Patterns, summer • 0 Comments

It’s been, I don’t know, two months since we all went on lockdown due to Covid-19? I am one of the lucky ones, in that, I can teach college classes from home and I write and crochet within the comfort of my own beloved spaces. I’m an introvert by nature, so this whole staying home thing has not been difficult…

Book and Pattern Pairing: Love and Ruin by Paula McLain and the San Sebastian Revolutionary Cap

by Tiffani on September 27, 2019 in book reviews, Crochet, Patterns • 0 Comments

I had hoped to have this review available for you all by Wednesday, but life is busy when you’re entering the last quarter of your MFA (this is my last masters degree! I promise myself right now), beginning the first semester of the college classes you teach, assisting your high schooler with cyberschool set up, writing a new novel (which…