About Shikha Walia

Shikha Walia has been a mother, a teacher, a housewife and an artisan, often in the same day. The crochet is the part strangers see. What she brings to it is attention. She notices a row that sits one stitch out of line. She notices a colour that goes flat under a different light. She notices a strap that will lose its shape in a year. Most of what she makes is pulled apart at least once before anyone else sees it. That is the difference between work that is good and work you keep. Anyone can follow a pattern. Very few people will undo an evening of it because one row bothered them. She has no factory, no team and no production line. She has a hook, a basket of yarn, and the patience to spend several days on one piece. That is the whole operation.