Hi my name is Claudia and I was born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland. My great grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was seven and I fell in love with making clothing. My great grandmother Lucile gave me the yarn and said, “this is love” and I’ve shared that love with my community one strand, one stitch at a time. I went to Berkeley High and later Berkeley City College. I am a mother with two young daughters and when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter Lea several years ago I made her a baby blanket and fell back in love with crocheting, one strand, one stitch at a time. I recently quit my full-time job in human resources to spend more time building Dafunkybutton into a full-time enterprise. I still have two part-time jobs to pay my bills and to provide for my babies, but I need to follow my dream in order to get to where I want to go.