2025 Featured Designer: Raquel Bridgen

Today's Featured Designer is Raquel Bridgen, who designed Pocketful of Posies Cardigan.

Meet Raquel

Raquel has a life long love of learning and being creative. She began crocheting when she was very young and often jokes that she has crafting ADD. She is constantly learning new skills to add to her repertoire. Raquel also loves to challenge herself, and this year, she decided to try to write patterns of some of her

creations.

Along with crocheting, her current favorite crafts include knitting, quilting, weaving, and making wire wrap jewelry. If it has anything to do with fiber, she already owns it or is about to acquire it!

Raquel also loves reading and can often be found sitting on the couch with the cat in her lap reading and crocheting (or knitting) at the same time. The challenging part in that equation is the cat! Tolkien is one of her favorite authors. She and her

daughter often crochet together and fangirl about different books.

Behind the Design: Pocketful of Posies Cardigan

Last summer we had so much fun doing the GTYT; I dragged my husband and 20 year old daughter along to many of the stores. At the end of the month, my daughter turned to me and said, “That was fun, and I love all my yarn but now what am I going to do with it?”

My daughter is the inspiration for this project. She loves Hallmark movies and has a very sweet and easy style. Whenever we leave the house, we always grab our crafting bag and a layer of some sort: cardigan, jacket, or just an extra overshirt. Even during the summer, since you never know how comfortable it is going to be at your destination.

So, I wanted to make something with my GTYT minis that would be amazing and could fill that roll. Something that she or I could just grab and go, which totally fits the theme: I always “alpaca my bag” with a cardigan!

Keep up with Raquel

• Email: galadritn@gmail.com