Tatsiana Kupryianchyk is a self-taught designer who developed a love of crochet from a young age. Based in Brno in the Czech Republic, she initially studied journalism and opera singing, and went on to become a magazine editor before her passion for crochet led her to launch Lila Björn Crochet (lilabjorncrochet.com) in 2014. She specializes in mosaic, overlay and brioche, and contributes patterns to Inside Crochet, Crochet Now and Yarn bookazine.