I thought I would expand upon the post I wrote yesterday and fill in some necessary blanks. There are many more professional aspects to the “crochet industry” than design and pattern writing, we tend to just talk about designers and I think that really does the industry a disservice. I think it’s important to the [...]
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Independent Business People… Definitions
It appears that I may have a different opinion of what it means to be Independent than many hand crafters and designers. So, I’m going to spell out my definition and explain why I believe this to be true. Independent = you work for yourself, own a small business (under $200,000 a year profit). [...]
What are the rules? Crochet Community
Sponsored by Craft Foxes The Secret Rules of Crochet Etiquette Every community or clique has a set of unspoken rules and craft circles often do, too. Chances are when you first started crocheting you weren’t sure about how to introduce yourself or what questions were alright to ask without seeming foolish (“What’s the difference [...]
The Flamies are coming!
Have you nominated your favorites of 2011 for the 4th annual Flamie Awards? There’s still time to nominate your favorites of 2011, nominations close Friday, March 23.
To Pin or Not to Pin? That is The Question.
There has been some heated debates on the topic of Pinterest in recent weeks. I’ve seen some interesting arguments for and against using the new website. I have read articles by lawyers, business bloggers, marketeers, I’ve listened to the debates on twitter and LinkedIn. Let me say this, I am cautious regarding the site, however [...]
Counting the Cost of Crochet: Relative value
Crochet is one of those hobbies that can cost as much as you want it to cost. In today’s economic strife having something as simple as a hook and anything you can wrap around it is a pretty affordable creative option. Finding materials you like on the other hand may be a struggle, if you [...]
March is International Crochet Month
We never do anything by halves in the CLF, so of course to start off International Crochet Month a group of us headed out to the Rose City Yarn Crawl. It was an awesome event! I’m still waiting on some photos from participants to show you just how awesome things were for us, but in [...]
A Brave New World!
Once again, the joke is on good ol’ Fearless Leader. About once a week I marvel at what has become of my “little joke”, but just last night as I sat looking at our new social site, Hookey.org and I realized I was excited. It wasn’t the normal excited that I feel after building something and having [...]
CLF Myth Busting: 1/3 more yarn
Crochet does not use 1/3 more yarn than knitting. I hate that people go around saying we use 1/3 more yarn than knitting, mostly because it falls into one of my pet peeves: Repeating information as if it were fact without investigating the truth of the matter. It’s kind of like saying, “The world is [...]
Stitch of the Week #8
Wow! The last three weeks have been INTENSE as I have gotten the site to where I want it to be so that you have a great user experience. As you noticed we moved the social side off this site and on to Hookey.org. My poor brain was so tired as I worked [...]
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