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Crocheting with Hand Dyed Yarn: Tips for Finding Crochet Patterns that Complement
Crocheting with hand dyed yarn can be intimidating. If you are like I was, you have been eyeing beautiful, unique hand dyed yarn and you want to crochet with it but you are scared of messing it up or picking the wrong pattern. It can be hard to visualize what the yarn will look like once it is worked up. I am going to share with you some of my best tips for finding crochet patterns that complement your hand dyed yarn. When it comes to crocheters and hand dyed yarns, I feel like we do one of two things- We…
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What to Do When You Lose Your Crochet Motivation
Do you find yourself just not wanting to pick up your hook and crochet any type of project? You may be feeling unmotivated, unenthusiastic or just blah towards your crochet that use to bring you so much joy. Losing your crochet motivation or crojo happens to all of us a some point. I feel like when you are passionate about something it is just human nature to lose the luster here and there. It rarely happens to me now because I have started implementing a few tricks to keep me from getting bored. Boredom is the kyrptonite to my crojo.…
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August ALC Yarn Club
The theme for the August yarn club was Summer Sunsets and oh my goodness is there any better inspirations than nature? Sunsets are so unique and beautiful. The colorways from August are some of my all times favorites and I’m excited to share a little behind the scenes with you. One of the things that is a little different out ALC Yarn Club is not everyone gets the same exact colorway. I create several different colorways for each month. I do this for 2 reasons: I don’t like doing the same thing over and over again because it just takes…
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My Best Tip for Learning to Knit or Crochet
My best tip for learning to crochet or to knit or anything new is examine how you think about. it. What are you telling yourself? I recently taught myself to knit and I was just blown away at how much easier it was for me than when I was learning to crochet. As I thought about that I really examined why, I realized something. It was easier because I was thinking differently than I used to. When I first started to teach myself to crochet, I told myself all of the things that I couldn’t do. I couldn’t read a…
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Labels
Let’s talk about labels – More importantly how we label ourselves. For so long, I told myself I was just a crocheter, just a girl trying to get to Friday and the weekend, just a dreamer, just a small-town girl, just a pharmacy tech, just a wife, just a yarn lover, just a blogger, just a yarn dyer and the list goes on and on. Does this sound familiar? Maybe the words are different after “just a” but I would be willing to bet all women can relate to these labels. Y’all!! We are so much more than that. We…
