Simply Crochet

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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