Celebrities – they’re just like us! I always get a little giddy when I find out someone famous is a crocheter like me. It makes me feel like we’re one step closer to having crochet become more recognized.
Maybe if crocheting were more common, people would stop asking me what I am knitting!
Crocheting isn’t just grandmas sitting around making doilies and scratchy scarves! Some of your favorite celebs enjoy making scratchy scarfs too.
People are starting to see that crochet can be modern, that crochet can be fashionable, and that crochet can actually be cool!
Of course, you and I have known all that for a while now. But it’s nice to be on the same page with everyone else for once. I am so excited to share this list of celebrities who can crochet. You might know one or two of these names already, but I bet you can’t guess all 10!
Famous Crocheters You Didnt Know About
20. Vanna White
Most may know her as the co-host of Wheel of Fortune. But she is more than just a household staple. She is a lifelong lover of yarn and has been the spokesperson for Lion Brand Yarn for the past 18 years.
I’ve always said Vanna’s choice yarn is one of my favorites to work with. It’s the perfect thicker worsted weight yarn to work with.
White said, “My love of yarn began when my grandmother taught me to crochet. Crafting was so much more than a hobby to her. It was a way to share her love with everyone around her.
As a mother, it was important for me to pass on my love of yarn. Now, my daughter and I love to shop for yarn and crochet together. I’m thrilled to be able to share my affordable, easy-care yarns so that everyone can share their love with the people who matter most.”
19. Rosey Grier
Rosey Gree is an American actor, singer, minister, and former NFL football player. As a professional player, Grier was a member of the New York Giants and the original “Fearsome Foursome” of the Los Angeles Rams.
If you are not familiar with him, you may know his famous cousin, Miss Foxy Brown herself, Pam Grier
Rosie Grier revolutionized the crafting frontier to not only include men, but to encourage them. He could knit, crochet & needlepoint. He’s even authored several books, including Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men in 1973. There’s plenty of information about his football career, along with his musical and acting talents. Man, this guy was a real renaissance man.
18. Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an amazing singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian. Throughout her career which spans over five decades, Midler has received numerous accolades & Awards.
Whether she made you cry in the movie Beaches or made the kids laugh in Hocus pocus. Midler is 100% talented. AND that even includes crochet! According to a Biography channel interview.
She said she started crocheting back in 1986when your daughter Sophia was born. Comment down below when you started crocheting.
17. Debra Messing
She is famous for her role as Grace Adler on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace which ran for 8 years. This crafty lady once donated a crocheted square for a Celebrity Charity Blanket. That’s a true donation from the heart that helps a special cause.
Random Fact about the Will & Grace Star, she’s allergic to wool. Apparently, she can’t even touch wool. and if she wears it she breaks out in hives. Which really suck for anyone who loves yarn crafts
Knitting expert to the stars EDITH EIG, who taught Messing, helped her find material she can work with. Eig says, “She’s allergic to anything that’s wool. We were challenged to find a fiber that could work well for her.
I’d lose my mind if I was allergic to certain types of yarns. Luckily my skin is not too picky.
16. Ryan Reynolds
He is an actor & producer. You can catch him in the movie Free Guy or Dead Pool. But did you know he has secret skills? According to the Nydaily news article “Real Men Crochet & Knit” Ryan Reynolds is included on this list.
I haven’t found any physical proof of his actual crocheting but I know for a fact that he loves the craft. Especially with all the amigurumi Deadpool characters going around
15. Stevie nicks
Stephanie Nicks is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona, and poetic, symbolic lyrics.
Stevie Nicks crocheted scarves ”by the dozen” to help get over her split from Mick Fleetwood who she dated for 3 mos in 1979.
After they broke up and he began dating her married best friend Sara, their relationship in the studio was strained and she turned to other vices to help her deal with the ”strange atmosphere.”
Nicks stated, ”It was horrible, horrible, months of sitting in that [recording] room, five days a week, all day long, and all night sometimes, sitting on the couch just watching, writing in my journal and watching some more, and crocheting scarves by the dozen, it was a very strange atmosphere.”
I can honestly say that crochet has also helped me in some tough times. Let me know how crochet has affected your life.
14 Grace Jones
Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American model, singer, songwriter, and actress. She has been breaking bearers since she became a model at the age of 13.
Despite an unhappy childhood, Jones was a lively, charismatic, and tomboyish kid. Her great-aunt taught her something that took her mind off of the horrors around her—how to crochet. She found the work almost meditative, calling it “a form of praying.” This small hobby was just one of the few, but bright, rays of light in her life that kept her going at the time.
According to Jones “I wasn’t supposed to play with my brothers,” she writes. “I was meant to stay put and crochet. I loved to crochet; I used to crochet until the skin came off my fingers and then I would put on a bandage and keep going.”
I tip my crochet hook to you, Miss Jones!
13 Hillary Duff
Hilary Duff is an American actress, singer, producer, businesswoman, knitter & crocheter! She began her acting career at a young age and quickly became labeled a teen idol. You may know her from her childhood role as Lizzy Mcguire or from her tv show Younger.
In her downtime, she shared that she has been mastering the art of crocheting and she showed off some of her handmade items on her Instagram. I must say, she definitely has skills.
Random fact, Her Tv show, Younger costar, Sutton Forster, even gifted her a cute homemade octopus toilet cover as a wedding gift.
I wonder if she thinks of Foster when she is in the Lue?
12 Donald glover
Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, is an American actor, comedian, singer, rapper, producer, writer, and director. Basically, he is an all-around super genius. It doesn’t end there! Listen to what his community costar said about it his extracurricular hobbies.
How can you not love a man with all of these talents!
11. Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the frontman of the band Nirvana, serving as the band’s guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter. He also could crochet & knit!
I’m surprised too! Cobain said knitting for him may have felt “stupidly entertaining,” but he couldn’t help it. If his knitting skills were anything like his music skills, that must have been something to see!
His personal style even influenced high fashion, to his displeasure. Marc Jacobs, at the time, working as a designer for Perry Ellis. His 93 Summer/ Spring93 collection was inspired by grunge and included oversized plaid shirts, raggedy crochet, and thermals re-imagined in luxe fabrics, much to the repulsion of Cobain and Love who burned the entire collection, which was sent to them by Jacobs.
“Marc sent me and Kurt his entire Perry Ellis Grunge collection. Do you know what we did with it? We burned it. We were punkers – we didn’t like that kind of thing.” Courtney Love spoke to WWD in 2010. As for Marc Jacobs, he found himself promptly fired by his employer Perry Ellis, leaving him free to set up his eponymous label.
10. Sutton Foster
American actress Sutton Foster is well known for her performances on Broadway and TV role “Younger.” In which she plays a woman in her 40’s, finding it difficult re-entering the working world. So She pretends to be 26 yr old.
I love the premise of this show. Especially since I left my twenties many moons ago
When she’s not practicing for her next role, you can sometimes find her crocheting. She even wrote a book called “Hooked.”
Where the chapters are craft-themed, but this book is not all about Mod Podge and Jo-Ann Fabrics.
Foster writes about how keeping her hands busy has helped her cope with the stress and pressure of her career and the ups and downs. It’s all about how crafting has saved her life.
9. Kamala Harris
Even the vice president is in on the crochet craze. We learned this when she visited a local yarn shop in Alexandria, Virginia in an effort to raise more awareness around local businesses struggling during the pandemic.
She attributes learning to crochet to her mother, who didn’t want her sitting in front of the TV all day. Apparently, she has crocheted tons of blankets in her lifetime! Added bonus her daughter knits & crochets too!
8. Alyssa Milano
Alyssa started her acting career at the tender age of 8, better known as Samantha on”Who’s the Boss.” & Phoebe Halliwell in the television show “Charmed.”
In her 2009 book, “Safe At Home,” she briefly details her crochet experience. She can also be seen crocheting in the first 20 minutes of the movie, “Wise Gal”
You may remember in 2020 the controversy surrounding the crochet mask -gage. Yes, crochet has holes in it, but the outcry was for nothing. Her mask had a carbon filter added to them.
7. Maurice Greene
Maurice Greene is a kickboxer/mixed martial artist, who has competed in The Ultimate Fighter 28 and in the UFC.
At 6’7″ and roughly 270 pounds, that would be enough to make people look twice, but that’s not the reason.
What really stops people in their tracks is an Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight quietly sitting down to crochet.
He even has his own business – The Crochet Boss – where he sells his finished items.
6. Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour is a British actress who is most famous for her role as a Bond girl & Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. According to Living Well magazine, she used her crafty and entrepreneurial spirit to start a clothing line at the age of 15 to fund her way through ballet school.
She also taught herself how to cook, knit, weave, and (most importantly) crochet! Not sure if she is still currently crocheting but this top is crochet inspiration.
5. Katy Perry
Singing star Katy Perry says she likes to crochet in bed at night when she gets time to herself. Comment down below if any of you can relate!
According to a 2013 interview with Allan Car, she said, “I do a bit of crocheting now; I know, I’m the biggest Nana on the block.”
She added: “I was at Liberty yesterday, and they have this big crocheting aisle’ everyone else that’s cool was in the designer clothes’ area, and I was just like ‘ooh look at all these yarns, I love it.”
Hearing that just makes me love her so much more!
4. Cher
No last name is needed to recognize this iconic American singer & actress. This photo from 1967 shows Cher performing in a crochet dress.
According to Allfreecrochet, Cher might not have made this crochet dress herself, but she sure was a fan of crochet! In an article on Yours, Cher described her working with Meryl Streep on the set of Silkwood:
“We’d knit, crochet and talk about our kids so much I thought something was wrong with us, that we didn’t have an existence outside of them. Then I realized we were just two proud mothers.”
Talk about crochet star name dropping .
3. Tom Daley
His dive won gold. His knitting & crochet won the internet. Daley has been spotted with crochet hooks & knitting needles throughout the Tokyo Games, both poolside and in the stands watching other events.
“One thing that has kept me sane throughout this whole process is my love for knitting and crochet and all things stitching,” he said in an Instagram video showing off the crafty cozy.
I heard he even crocheted a cozy for his medals. I bet all the other medalists were jealous.
2. Aretha Franklin
We can’t forget about the Queen of Soul, Miss Aretha Franklin! Her beautiful voice is definitely missed. I recently watched the new movie & it was a great perspective on her life. Here’s another fun fact: she was a big fan of crochet
According to the Buffalo News, Aretha once said “To this day I enjoy crocheting various items for family and friends,” she wrote in her memoir. “I like maneuvering subtle pumpkin and pineapple stitches. As I crochet, I often think of those days in Buffalo and Mr. and Mrs. Pitman” (the neighbor who taught her to crochet). Aretha said she likes to make berets, which is right up our alley.
1. Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Michelle Seyfried is an American actress, singer, model, and CROCHETER!
If you’ve been following along with Amanda Seyfried’s quarantine craft page (otherwise known as her Instagram account), then you’ve probably been awed by the amount of crocheting she’s been doing.
In fact, Seyfried has made an entire granny square quilt, a large rainbow doily, and she’s even ventured into good old-fashioned quilting. But if you thought she’d stop at two-dimensional projects, you underestimate her. She knits too! Is there anything she can’t do?
The next time someone tells you that crochet isn’t cool, you can give them at least 10 reasons why they are totally wrong! Seriously, though, crochet is cool! And if someone says that it isn’t, they’re a jerk
If you know of any other celebrities who crochet, please let us know in the comments.
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