Rachele Carmona (@cypresstextiles) is an extremely experienced crochet designer, author and influencer. She has a very large following on social media with 121k followers on Instagram alone. She is also on YouTube (20k subscribers) and Facebook (22k followers), and she sells her patterns on Ravelry and Etsy (18k sales).

She is the author of the Interweave title, The Art of Crochet Blankets, which published in 2018 and she was one of the contributors to 100 Crochet Tiles.