Kabanita.
Kabanita. She invented the word and the stitch.
Ana Sebastião crochets every day. Not as a practice, not as a ritual. As a fact of life, the way some people make coffee or check the weather. She has been doing it for a decade, while raising three children and booking other people's travel, which means her own adventures happen stitch by stitch.
She works out of Lint, Belgium, under the name Tricotando by Ana. Her signature piece, the Kabanita, takes the granny stitch and gives it puff, texture, and a personality upgrade. Small pieces mostly: bags, cushions, vase covers. Warm tones, African influence, orange appearing whenever it can. The work is expressive and joyful and entirely her own.
She felts some pieces for structure. She layers mohair for warmth. Jazz and bossa nova play while she works. The hook she reaches for is always the same.
Dream: her own yarn line and a Kabanita summer dress. Both feel inevitable.
"Be authentic, she says. Keep creating. Orange helps."
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