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Roundup posts for designers. How to grow your knitting, crochet or sewing buisness fast. Image shows a line drawing cartoon of a cowboy 'rounding up' a pack of yarn.

Blog Roundups for designers. How to grow your knitting, crochet or sewing buisness fast

How Blog Hops Work for Designers: The Shockingly Simple Trick to Flood Your Site with Crafters

How Blog Hops Work for Designers: The Shockingly Simple Trick to Flood Your Site with Crafters

The Ultimate Guide to Collaborative Marketing for Indy Pattern Designers

The Ultimate Guide to Collaborative Marketing for Indy Pattern Designers

Doll Dress Knitting Pattern – free pattern for ‘Damhsa’

Doll Dress Knitting Pattern – free pattern for ‘Damhsa’

The Beenoskee ripple stitch crochet cowl in pink and blue yarn. The image shows the cowl being worn by a young woman, along with a navy blue winter coat. Her hair is blowing in the wind. This is against a background of a hedgerow, bare trees, and a white winter sky.

Beenoskee Ripple Stitch Crochet Cowl – free pattern for all ages

Is your knitting edge curling? 7 solutions to solve stocking stitch curl.

Is your knitting edge curling? 7 solutions to solve stocking stitch curl.

Free Dog Sweater Knitting Pattern. Luna’s Jacket.

Free Dog Sweater Knitting Pattern. Luna’s Jacket.

Waffle stitch mittens crochet pattern.image shows four hands together. one person wearing the fingerless mittens, one wearing the full mittens, with their hands on top of eachother.

Waffle Stitch Mittens Free Crochet Pattern. The Sugarloaf Mittens

Waffle Stitch Cowl free crochet pattern. The Sugarloaf Cowl.

The sugarloaf hat waffle stitch crochet pattern by Ciara Doyle

Waffle Stitch Hat Free Crochet Pattern. The Sugarloaf hat

How Much Yarn do I Need? 5 foolproof ways to avoid yarn chicken

How Much Yarn Do I Need? 5 Foolproof Ways to Avoid Yarn Chicken

Moonlight Jar Cosies: Free Knitting Pattern glass jar art

Moonlight Jar Cosies: Free Knitting Pattern glass jar art

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Oh hey! I'm Ciara!

I’m Ciara, and I have been knitting since I was 6 years old or younger. I only came to crochet a few years ago, when problems with my shoulders made it difficult for me to knit. Since then I have been crocheting and designing crochet projects. In recovery from a long career as an academic, I now write crochet patterns and fiction. Both involve imagining something fantastic, then figuring out how to communicate it simply and clearly so others can follow along, so quite similar activities, really.

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Free Knitting Patterns

Doll Dress Knitting Pattern – free pattern for ‘Damhsa’

Free Dog Sweater Knitting Pattern. Luna’s Jacket.

Moonlight Jar Cosies: Free Knitting Pattern glass jar art

Free Crochet Patterns

Beenoskee Ripple Stitch Crochet Cowl – free pattern for all ages

Waffle Stitch Mittens Free Crochet Pattern. The Sugarloaf Mittens

Waffle Stitch Cowl free crochet pattern. The Sugarloaf Cowl.

Free Sewing Patterns

Sew a Scrunchie – Free Tutorial

designer resources

Blog Roundups for designers. How to grow your knitting, crochet or sewing buisness fast

How Blog Hops Work for Designers: The Shockingly Simple Trick to Flood Your Site with Crafters

The Ultimate Guide to Collaborative Marketing for Indy Pattern Designers

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