Weaving love and yarn together, Priscilla Mitchell uses her creative, artistic spirit to spread inclusivity and kindness through her crochet patterns and social media presence
Written by Makenna Hall
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A lover of colours, art and wearable crochet, Priscilla Mitchell runs The Stitch Queen Crochet online, selling ready-to-wear crochet items and colourful patterns. Her mission to spread love and positivity is sublimely showcased in the bohemian, hippie style of her creations. “I love spreading inspiration,” Priscilla says. “I love helping people figure out different colours they can use, or patterns that people actually want to [wear].”
Priscilla loves incorporating a lot of colours into her designs, she says, because they make her feel happy. By sharing bright colours with her followers, she also shares a piece of her joy with them.
“I like being real and making people feel good about themselves – just kind of spreading love and not always being ‘this is all about me, me, me,’” she says. She explains that she wants to bring more light into the world, to counteract social media feeds that are full of negative, depressing and dark things. While she points out that it’s necessary to know what’s going on in the world, she thinks that positivity is very important, too.
LOVER OF ALL ART
“I love seeing something, saying ‘I’m gonna do that’ and getting it done and really feeling satisfied,” Priscilla says. “[I’m] definitely inspired by that creative process – making it, designing it, finishing it.”
She credits early trips to her local library’s art section as a child for her love of the artistic process, and remembers tracing the images in art books. “It kind of exploded into creating all kinds of stuff, learning new things,” Priscilla says. Her introduction to fibre art began with a basket of yarn and boredom while spending time at her friend’s house one summer. There, she picked up knitting by learning from a book as well as her own process of trial and error.
Priscilla was knitting scarf after scarf before she discovered crochet at around 12 or 13 years old. In addition to drawing, knitting and crocheting, Priscilla has honed skills in henna and jagua tattooing, as well as photography and painting.
In fact, Priscilla’s full-time job is her henna business, providing the service at parties, festivals and
