We recently connected with Logan Saxon and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Logan, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
My work ethic comes from the support of my family. Both my parents instilled hard work and determination in me from a very young age. They have always said, if it doesn’t work the way you thought, try another way. There has never been a time in my life where I just gave up, because it didn’t work the way that I thought it would. I wouldn’t be where I am today, if I had just stopped after the first try.
I think that is also where a lot of my creativity comes from, not only with my small business, but with my day to day life. The answer usually isn’t the obvious and forcing yourself to become creative with your work ethic takes you to so many different levels.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
By day I am an Administrative Assistant at a Hotel in my area, but by night I am a Crochet Artist, constantly thinking about the next amazing project I could be working on.
I have always wanted to learn to crochet since I was very young. However, I am lefthanded and no one around me wanted to teach me how to crochet righthanded, because they thought I should learn with the hand I was most dominant with. Years went by, I watched friends and coworkers create amazing projects from a hook and their hands and my determination grew. I was laid off from my job at the beginning of the pandemic and I had to do something to keep my hands and my mind moving. My boyfriend (now husband) had gotten me “The Idiots Guide on How to Crochet” for Christmas 2019 and I thought “yeah, yeah” I’ll eventually pick this up, but also, knowing myself, I knew that it would sit on a shelf, collecting dust, with the rest of the hobbies I wanted to start. So, with lots of extra time on my hands, after being laid off, I picked up the book off the shelf, dusted it off and began reading and started learning the stitches. It took me about 3 months to fully grasp the 3 or 4 main stitches that are used constantly when Crocheting and I was hooked, LITERALLY! It was a the end of those 3 months that I made my first plushie (or as the crochet community calls them, Amigurumi [ami*goo*roomie]) And of all things, I learned how to crochet RIGHT HANDED- it just felt more comfortable. Fun fact about me: Crocheting is one of the few things I do right handed.
The most exciting and special thing about my art is seeing people’s reactions to my art. I love doing pop-up markets and seeing people’s faces’ drop with joy and excitement, all of the hard work and dedication that went into learning this craft, is paid off when I see reactions from people.
The one thing that I would like folks to know about Crochet that is not made by any machine. The artist is the machine. There has not been a machine created that can replicate crochet. It is that complex. One of the negative sides to this art is that people think it is so easy, and then are shocked by the price of the item when it comes to paying for it. One creation sometimes takes several hours. One baby blanket I worked on, took 4 weeks.
I am always up for a new challenge. Since starting Crochet I have been self-taught through every aspect of it. If I don’t know a stitch or a pattern, there is an amazing crochet community there to help .
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three qualities and skills that have been impactful in my Crochet journey would be: Determination, Creativity and Spreading Joy.
As I mentioned at the beginning, my parents instilled Determination in me at a very young age and I wouldn’t have the same mind set I have today if it wasn’t for them.
My Creativity has always been there. I like thinking outside of the box in everything that I do.
I love spreading joy and seeing the smiles on people’s faces’. I was very sick as a child and no matter how bad I felt, there always seemed to be someone there trying to spread joy and bring a smile to my face, the least I could do is the same.
If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?
A current challenge that I am facing as an artist is finding folks that enjoy my art. The market is currently SATURATED with Crochet Artist. I am trying to step out of that box of creating “what everyone else is making” Sure, I could make all of those things that you see on Instagram and Pinterest, but I want to be able to look at something online and immediately know that it is my art.
My projects are unique, just like me and I do not want to step into the realm of the Crochet World, where I fit in with everyone else. My journey is constantly evolving and I cannot wait to see where in the world I go from here.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.mercari.com/u/tangledinsass/?sv=0
- Instagram: @tangledinsasscreations
- Facebook: @tangledinsasscreations
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