HELLO!
My name is ROUX and I am the artist and owner of ROUX STUDIOS, an art house and media production company. I’m an abstract artist on canvas, photographer, and freelance wardrobe stylist. I taught myself how to knit when I was a teen and years later took up crochet (I felt crochet was the only way to get the stitch definition for a handmade bathing suit!). It wasn’t long after learning to CROCHET that sticks started to inspire me. I started collecting them, just thinking they were beautiful. They became vase additions and flower bed edging. I generally kept them nearby like friends. Finally, I had the realization that my fingers knew these sticks as tools… they were really only a few steps away from becoming crochet hooks (and then all they’d be missing would be YARN! That’s when handcarved Hooks was born. It didn’t take long before I started seeing the hooks I made as small canvas spaces, too.
Now I enjoy making all kinds of crochet nooks, knitting needles, and stitch holders. Sometimes they’re rustic beauties, other times, I paint worlds of color onto their surface and they become art pieces. I hope you enjoy taking a look around. I love conneting with people, so feel free to drop me a line or follow along my adventures through Instagram!
Love & Happy Hooking