My fingers were deciding between two stories: Sean John’s new men’s fragrance or a solo-preneur named Twinkie Chan who crochets food inspired scarves in her after-5 time. Anyone that describes themselves as “the coolest girl in second grade” is gonna get my attention.

In an interview on scene360.com Twinkie talks about an art history course that missed its intention: it taught her to crochet for fun..
“after writing too many papers and picking apart other people’s books and art, I’d like to think that a scarf is a scarf and a cookie is a cookie. I don’t have grandiose ideas about my work nourishing the soul or warming the spirit. I simply make cute, unique items that you can use in your everyday life.”

Some of those ‘unique items’ have gone for $300 on Ebay..

“I never started to crochet scarves because I had the intent to sell them. I just made them because I thought they were funny, and I had to bring what was in my head to life.”

By day Twinkie is a publishing agent, by night she’s searching for black forest cake pictures..

“What really got me going in 2005 was scarves. It gets pretty cold in SF, but I found most store-bought scarves really boring, so I started making my own. Yarn colors and yarn textures already evoked food imagery in my food-obsessed brain, so I just took it one step further and made my designs actually take food form.”

You need the pictures to make this story pop.. and be inspired.

Check the interview at “The Food and the Fabulous: An Interview with Twinkie Chan”