Victoria crocheted a beautiful mandala rug that represents a sister she lost to suicide. She also crocheted a collection of thread crochet mandalas that are exquisite in their colorful beauty.
Author: Kathryn
These beautiful floral crochet mini mandalas are from Maryann in Canada, who previously sent in a regular crochet mandala, sharing her story about alcohol and depression. She decided to make these mandalas as a Lenten project, crocheting one for each week of Lent.
I adore these two terrific mandalas, especially the one shown on the left above, where the variegated yarns blend so well together in a brilliant display of color.
Stephanie, who shares on Instagram that she’s a “wife to the man of my dreams, mom to the most adorable chubby pup, lover of all things yarn-y”, created these beautiful crochet mandalas.
Mari of Cali Crochet contributed this beautiful set of colorful crochet mandalas. She says, “I’m a wife, mother, marathoner, yogi and lover of crochet. I am honored to be part of the #MandalasForMarinke project. I will forever be inspired by Wink’s love of crochet.”
“Repeating stitches, repeating patterns, making things … I’d think of my mother often. I mourned my way through what seemed like a million scarves and afghans, so many I was bored and losing interest. That’s when I found Wink and her mandalas. Her blog with the free patterns, easy to follow instructions and encouragement, her color sense, imagination, originality and friendly style caused my fascination with crochet to return full force. I will always remember Wink as the one who kept me in the craft and will sing her praises to myself with every Mandala I make.”
These two beautiful crochet mandalas were contributed together by Kerrie Bullock and Kara Mosson, who both live in Napier, New Zealand.
There is such simple beauty in the colors of this crochet mandala – light and dark grey with the bright blue, reminiscent of cloudy skies that still have beautiful moments. This one is by Claudia Carpenter of Crochet Luna.
Renee shares, “Crochet has gotten me through some rough times in my life; most significantly, my struggle with post-partum depression. My PPD manifested in the forms of anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, and the act of crocheting gave me an outlet for all the negative energy.
Madelyn shares, “the most difficult illness I deal with is depression, not because I have it every day like I do the other problems, but because it lies to me, it skews my perception, it’s mean to me, it makes me feel worthless, it makes me not care. And it doesn’t just affect the mind, my whole body can be affected by depression, my physical pain is made worse.”