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Support a Fellow Maker / Take a Break from Designing
If you know me at all, there’s a good chance you’ve heard my thoughts about the volume of patterns being put out by designers. So this post is partially selfish in a desire to spread my beliefs, but also aiming to give some thoughts on how designers can improve. In my perfect world, all designers would have to take a year off from designing, and only make other designers’ patterns (#takeabreaktobebetter). I know that designers have a million ideas in their heads. All those ideas are lined up, just waiting to go either from head or paper to yarn. But I would imagine that sometimes those ideas may be lacking…
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The K/CAL: Participant Edition
Signing up to be part of a Knit-a-long (KAL) or Crochet-a-long (CAL) is a pretty low commitment event. You don’t have to pay anything extra, you’re just buying the pattern (often at a discount!) and yarn and making along with some new friends. Often A LOT of them! There have been a couple of these events lately in the maker world done by some pretty big names like TL Yarn Crafts (Coles River CAL) and Knitatude (My Beginner Raglan KAL). Below are 5 reasons joining a KAL or CAL is a great a idea! 5 Reasons to Join a KAL or CAL Motivation – If you saw my post on…
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My Yarn Savings Plan
Last time I posted I talked about the infamous Yarn Diet. And while I don’t really consider myself to be on one, thanks to a change in perspective, I have implemented a new plan to hopefully help prevent future binges. So the sort of bargain with myself, is a yarn savings plan. This allows me to feel like I’ve gotten a bit of a reward for not buying yarn, and provides the money for yarn when I decide there is some that I would appreciate and be able to use. It’s quite simple actually. Every time I see yarn that I would have bought if I’d seen it during my…
