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BLANKET STITCH

When you imagine an idyllic place where you could spend all day crocheting, you may envision something that’s very close to Ana Morais Soares’s reality. Based in a beautiful fishing village on the west coast of Portugal, Ana has an affinity with the ocean that feeds her creativity and nourishes her soul on a regular basis. “I love the sea,” she explains. “My grandfather was a ‘sea wolf’, the name we give here to those men involved in cod fishing. He was a captain on one of those ships that sailed to Newfoundland and stayed in the open sea for almost a year. It 

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