Hi! My name is Rachel, and I’m a sophomore Aerospace Engineering major. Born and raised in New England, I’ve lived in Upton, Mass almost my whole life.
My family includes a mom who is always sewing or painting and an engineer father, so I grew up seeing how both art and engineering intertwine. I really enjoy the design aspects of engineering, as well as 3D modeling. While I dabble occasionally in 2D art, I am much more passionate about 3D art and items.
I have a lot of experience with 3D modeling and some experience 3D printing, and I have taken multiple physical art classes as well as one digital art class where I got to play around with Illustrator. I also love crafts, like crocheting, knitting, painting, origami, sculpting, painting, jewelry making and more. I even made a blog during high school about various craft forms.
My main craft is crochet, as you’ll see from my portfolio. I love making tangible items especially as gifts for others. I like making stuffed animals, hats, scarves, toys, headbands, and more. It was quite a journey to finding crochet- I began with rainbow loom in elementary school, and as I got more advanced with it, I found loom knitting (knitting not with needles, but using pegs on a circular/rectangular board). I was a passionate loom knitter for many years, then tried my hand at knitting, and eventually found crocheting about 4 years ago and haven’t stopped since.
I gained experience in a makerspace in high school, where I made a lot of CAD designs and utilized the FDM 3D printers. I also took a deep dive into learning about resin 3D printers at one of my previous jobs. I am excited to expand my knowledge within Makerspaces and use the laser cutter!
I’m also not great at photography! Most of my portfolio photos had been taken quickly rather than for quality.
I apologize for the post being so long, but I wanted to show some different mediums. Here’s some of my previous work:
Crocheted multicolored octopi, a blueberry colored cow, a reversable happy-sad octopus, and a mushroom cross-body bag
Cute- I love your little crochet animals, they are absolutely adorable! All of your work utilizes bright colors and nice detailing.
CUTE – Your crocheting is so so so cute I especially love the cow!
Detailed – It is really cool to see a toy like the car blown up to see all the small components that make it up.
Quirky — I love the giant worm-on-a-string, he’s adorable 🙂
Detailed – A lot of your art has intricate details which look amazing
Impressive – Hand knitting all those items is very impressive, they all came out amazing!
Familiar – I really like all of your crochet items. Specifically, the crochet Eve is familiar to me, not only because I also like to crochet, but also because WALL-E is one of my favorite movies!! I also really love the worm on the string 🙂
fun- I like the worms on a string makes me think of playing with them when I was a kid.
quirky – I adore the crochet, like the work, eve, and octo, also lots of different mediums!
Cute – Love the worm on a string and Wall E is one of my favorite movies, you captured Eve really well in your crochet work>
Familiar – The piece “A tree on a rock with an ombre sky behind it” reminds me of the infinite wisdom of Master Oogway
colorful – very creative!
Funny – Absolutely love the big crocheted version of the worm!