24,500 Subscribers Later… Thank You

Today my YouTube channel officially crossed 24,500 subscribers, and honestly, I’m still trying to process it.

When I first started sharing crochet videos online, I never imagined that thousands of people from around the world would one day be watching my tutorials, following my crochet journey, supporting my designs, and becoming part of this amazing creative community.

What started as simply sharing something I loved slowly grew into something much bigger than I ever expected.

Over the years, HodgePodge Crochet has become more than just a crochet channel. It has become a space filled with creativity, learning, experimentation, encouragement, late-night crochet sessions, yarn piles taking over the house, cats supervising projects 😂, and people who genuinely appreciate handmade art.

One of the things I love most about this community is how supportive and encouraging everyone has been through every stage of the process — even the messy stages.

And trust me… there have been MANY messy stages.

If you’ve followed me recently over on Patreon, then you’ve probably seen me deep in the process of designing the new Lattice Top. This pattern has gone through more revisions, frogging, measuring, grading, and restructuring than I can even count at this point. Some days I’ve completely reworked entire sections just trying to get the drape, fit, and stitch flow exactly the way I imagined it in my head.

But that’s also the beautiful part of designing.

Sometimes crochet patterns don’t appear perfectly on the first try. Sometimes they evolve slowly through testing, experimentation, mistakes, and learning. And honestly, I think sharing that process openly has become one of my favorite parts of this journey.

Seeing people excited about the Lattice Top while it’s still being developed has been incredibly motivating for me. Knowing that people genuinely care about the work behind the scenes makes all those long design sessions feel worth it.

As my YouTube channel continues growing, I have so many exciting things planned for the future:

  • New crochet patterns
  • More detailed tutorials
  • Behind-the-scenes design content
  • Crochet vlogs
  • Morocco lifestyle content 🇺🇸🇲🇦
  • More pattern testing opportunities
  • More creative experiments and projects

I’m genuinely excited about where things are heading.

And to every single person who has supported this channel in any way — whether you subscribed, watched a video, left a comment, purchased a pattern, shared my work, or simply followed quietly from the background — thank you.

Your support means more than you probably realize.

Creative work can sometimes feel very solitary behind the scenes. There are long hours spent designing, filming, editing, writing instructions, troubleshooting mistakes, and doubting whether anyone will even care about what you’re creating.

But moments like this remind me why I started.

24,500 subscribers may just look like a number to some people, but to me it represents years of learning, growth, persistence, creativity, and community.

And honestly?

I feel like we’re just getting started.

Thank you all so much for being part of this journey with me 💛

You can follow along here: https://www.youtube.com/@HodgePodgeCrochet

– HodgePodge Crochet

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🍉 Top Sheila 🍉
J’avais envie de me faire un top "pastèque" depuis que j’avais vu ceux de @[email protected] et Cocoontherainbow.
Quand j’ai postulé pour tester le design de Zeensandroger j’ai pensé que le patron s’y prêterai bien. Il me reste encore à ajouter les pépins.
Patron de Zeensandroger publié dans Laine Magazine "Let's Crochet".

#crochet #crochettop
Aztec sweater
J’ai trop serré les premiers rangs après l’encolure et la jauge n’est pas bonne. Je n’ai pas eu le courage de recommencer une énième fois. Mais je le referais un jour parce qu’il n’est pas parfaitement ajusté et ça se voit.
Patron de @nomadstitches

#mynomadmake #crochet #crochettop
Secret Garden Top
Un de mes préférés : sans manches, décolleté dans le dos avec une jolie dentelle. J’ai fait la version cropped avec le décolleté moins profond que le modèle pour pouvoir commencer la dentelle juste sous la poitrine.
Patron de Nomadstitches
Crochet 3 et 3,5mm et fil DMC Natura

#mynomadmake #crochet #crochettop
Done with this crocheted top. Took me a while, since the pattern was in Spanish. #crochet #crochettop #hækle #hæklettop #crochetpattern #summertop #håndværk
Another more-or-less improvised crochet piece, this is a spiderweb top for which I used glow-in-the-dark yarn and was inspired by a few tutorials on youtube. See my blog:
https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/may-june-crafts-crochet/

The third photo shows the glow-in-the-dark effect and the last one is me wearing it at a gig of my band Lavender Witch. 😊

#crochet #spiderwebcrochettop #crochettop #spiderwebcrochet #spiderwebtop #crafts #spiderweb #lavenderwitch
Working on a new #tunicstyletop #crochet #pattern practicing the corner. I messed up the first rows of the pattern but it still looks good.
#crochettop #crochetcorner #FiberArtist