What’s Trending Now?! - 2025 Part 2

Lauren Gonzalez
Dec 31, 2025
2 min read

Trends come and go; this is my review of what’s been popular in the fiber arts world. Let's get started!

Fusion & Modular Magic

Mixing stitches and mixing crafts ✨

Modular crochet such as joining hexes, flowers, panels and more offered customizable canvases and stash-yarn solutions. Projects that blended knitting and crochet, or combined crochet with embroidery/beadwork also showed up more often. Have you seen the crochet geodes? Absolutely beautiful work! Imagine making one for every birthstone, or even just your favorite gemstone.

photo by @craftyintentions — photo by @**craftyintentions**

Wearable Crochet Beyond Summer

This year we said “crochet for all seasons!”No longer just breezy beach tops, crochet moved into year-round fashion: structured dresses, shorts, sweaters, cardigans and even resort wear embraced the hook’s versatility, often stitched with fine yarns and fashion-forward silhouettes.

photos by @babycrochetdesigns, @craftersmuse, @thedreamcrochet

Home Decor & Functional Fiber Art

Yarn isn’t just for wearables anymore! Crochet and knit textures spilled into interiors via voluminous blankets, textured cushion covers, mug rugs, and wall hangings. All became “must-make” décor items.

photos by @divinedebris, @crochet365knittoo, @yarnspirations

Inclusive & Flexible Pattern Design

Crafting for everybody and every body!

We’re seeing a rise in pattern designers focusing on inclusive sizing and gender-neutral styles, broadening the fiber arts community’s welcoming vibe and accessibility. Making with people in mind, not boxes. A celebration of self-expression and confidence, as if dancing like no one's watching!

Community & Handmade Culture Surge

Hands-on togetherness. 🫶

There continues to be an increase of younger makers jumping into this “grandma” hobby. They are forging social connections through knitting circles, online KALs/CALs (knit-alongs and crochet-alongs), and sharing projects far and wide across the internet.

What a time...to be alive! - 2 Chains

Honorable Mentions

Have you seen the star-shaped onesies for babies? As my MIL would say "Too cute"! Fiber artists also took on their version of the "is it cake" challenge by making hyper-realistic foods. Knit socks were really showing off! The intricacies, the details, and most of all the scenescapes are remarkable.