Pro Tip #1: Marketing on a Budget
Are you looking for models and a cost friendly way to market your goods? If you have friends or siblings, then you are in luck! You may have to spend a considerable amount of time gathering everyone together, and put up with a lot of attitude, but the financial save might just be worth it. If you have neither, I’m sorry, but you will have to go the more expensive route.
Important note: make sure you have candy, food, or other such commodities to use for bribery before endeavoring in such a risky business venture.
Pro Tip #2: Know Yourself
Know yourself as a knitter or crocheter. Are you about to start a new project? Do you swatch your yarn to make sure you have the right gauge? If not, be sure to set aside extra time for your project to pull it apart and start over. Are you a beginner looking to do an intermediate or advanced project? If so, you will need to make sure that you are not around non-crafters, or extremely advanced yarnologists who will not empathize with your pathetic whining over poorly written instructions.
Why don’t sea gulls fly over the bay?
Because then they’d be BAGELS!!!!!
Pro Tip #3
Summer is a wonderful time for knitting and crocheting! Summer benefits include, but are not limited to
sweaty hands (for more advanced/swifter crocheters and knitters)
If working on a larger project, you may experience over heating from the heat of the sun combined with the weight of the tremendous amount of wool on your lap.
Pretty Instagram and Facebook pictures. After all, if you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen!
Side effects include
several (hundred) unfinished projects in June
sweaters in the middle of July
hats and scarves in August
An entirely new fall wardrobe in time for the start of school in September.
Bragging rights
Pro Tip #4 No Such Thing as Too Much Yarn
Every knitter, crocheter, and yarn hoarder knows this for a fact. You never can have too much yarn! Sure, your craft space may be teeming with it, and you can barely walk around because there is so much of it, but few things are as satisfying as looking at it and dreaming of the projects you can make with all your yarn. If you are a yarn obsessed crafter who is overwhelmed by the chaos of your life, or crafting space, I suggest stopping by Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, or any other craft store to walk around an organized space for an hour or two, or even three! Then go home, and start a couple new projects with the yarn you just bought because you couldn’t resist it. If you are bored, perhaps you could return to any of the other 500+ projects you have started.
What Hamlet Should Have Said………..
To knit, or not to knit, that is the question:
Whether 'tis worth it in the end to suffer
The slings and aggravations of outrageous patterns,
Or to take scissors against a sea of troubles
And by snipping end them. To clean—to knit,
No more; and by knit to say we end
The head-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That cleaning is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To cook, to knit;
To knit, perchance to procrastinate—ay, there's the truth:
For in that prolonged scarf what dreams may come,
When we have cast off this lengthy toil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long project.
Pro Tip #5: Know Your Patron Saints
There is a patron saint for everything! Depending on what project you are working on, you will want to know who to ask to intercede for you. Our Lady Undoer of Knots is there for you when you can’t untangle the seven different colors you are using to make a color work piece. Saint Jude, the patron saint of hopeless cases is another good one.