Pam Daley

My husband and I both retired in January 2007. Well, to be more accurate, HE retired and I was laid off due to my employer closing their west coast regional offices. We didn’t plan those two events to happen on the very same day, but they did. We took that as a little nudge and decided to stay retired and do some traveling in our travel trailer. We sold just about everything we couldn’t fit in the pickup truck or RV and started choosing places we wanted to see on a big map.

And then I got cancer.

Our travel plans were put on hold as I went through chemotherapy, and one thing led to another, and here we are 4 years later. We’ve got a bigger RV now - a motor home in fact. And we were finally able to realize our dream of traveling and living in our RV full-time - launch date was April 1, 2010!

Although I’ve been crocheting since I was a little girl, creating written patterns is something I started after retirement. During my cancer treatment I found the process was something that kept me busy and engaged without being physically exhausting.

2011 is the year that I’m hoping to break into having my patterns published ‘for real’. I have several listed with KnitPicks and hope to expand to other yarn retailers as well as a print magazine. Eventually? Publish a book of patterns.

Member of the Crochet Guild of America