Once upon a time, my Meirma taught Tiny Me me how to crochet. She had this super old yarn in a beautiful rose blend, and I learned to make chains and granny squares. She got sick and was away for about half a year. I was having severe Grandma Withdrawels, so I took a crochet class at the craft store and learned a bit more. (And soaked in the warm cookie grandma atmosphere that I really was missing!)

Fast forward to me discovering Japanese Street Fashion through the first Fruits book. I was also really inspired by the children's vintage earwarmers that I found in my '50's Sears catalogue. I wanted to make something cute of my own, and created an awful prototype version of my B*earWarmers for myself, and stayed up all night on Christmas Eve to make a frog coloured set for my little sister. It took me a LONG time back then! We wore them to Christmas dinner and our aunt freaked out about how cute they were and said that I should sell them... and after improving the design (quite a bit) that's just what I did!

I love that all kinds of different people like my B*earWarmers. Grown women and men, casual cosplayers, Halloween costume requests (Care Bears and the Bad Idea Bears), Furries, and people who don't usually dress quirky who just wanted something cute for a skiing trip or for bike riding.

The Rainbow scarves came after that, and I was very careful to come up with my own design for them that wasn't copying any of the existing rainbow scarves I'd ever seen before. Then, a sweet customer had an awesome idea: what if I combined the earwarmers with the scarf? So there was my RainboWarmer!

That's about it. The Grand Tale of a Few Crocheted Items!