As someone who grew up and lived by the beach almost my entire life, I have a deep love of the ocean and anything relating to it. Nothing can beat an ocean sunset or the way the waves look crashing on the shore. When I signed up for The Hook Nook Life New Year’s Gift Exchange and found out that my partner loved turquoise and crystals, I had an idea for a cowl pop into my head. I wanted to create a pattern where the stitches would look like crystals, and the yarn I found for the cowl reminded me...
How to Market Yourself to Yarn Companies & Magazines feat. Coco Crochet Lee: E’Claire Makery Podcast Episode 3
For most knitters or crocheters, the dream is that we'd be able to work with some big yarn company. A big company like Lion Brand, Red Heart, or any other large yarn company would see our work, fall in love, and send us boxes upon boxes of yarn that we could design with to our heart's content. For some of the big designers out there it's the reality for them. How do you get to that point though? How do you get yarn companies, magazines, or craft companies to start working with you?
DIY Yarn Stash Organizer
Do you have a crazy yarn stash that seems like it’s always out of control? I know I do! It’s so much easier to buy a bunch of yarn instead of finding a way to organize it. Anyone else feel the same way? Well, I’ve got a solution for all of our disorganized yarn needs: introducing, my new DIY Yarn Stash Organizer! The key part of it is my Yarn Stash organizer cards where you can fill out all of the information that you have on the yarn labels onto the card, and tie a piece of yarn onto it...
Overcoming Overthinking and Comparison as a Maker: E’Claire Makery Podcast Episode 2 with Anna from The Knotty Boss
“Just one more tweak and then it’ll be perfect! I’m never good enough at this though.” These thoughts can seem pretty familiar, right? They certainly are for me! As a maker, I’m constantly overthinking everything I do whether it’s my photography, my designs, or my captions on Instagram. I also am constantly comparing myself to others and where they are at in their business. It’s an almost daily struggle to overcome this as I’m consistently pushed to be even more creative each day. It seems to be a struggle that most makers experience. In today’s podcast episode I got the...
Winter Crochet Along (CAL) With Mary Maxim: Week 1
You know that moment when you get an opportunity for something that you can hardly believe is happening? You get that chance to go for it, and you don’t know whether to be excited or nervous or to just forget about it? That moment and opportunity came for me when I got the chance to begin working with the yarn company Mary Maxim. A yarn company wanted to work with me, Claire! I got to do an amazing collaboration with Premier Yarns on my Christmas collection, and now I had the chance to work with another one. Now, together with...
My Crochet Maker Journey: E’Claire Makery Podcast Episode 1
It’s here! The very first episode of the E’Claire Makery Podcast is finally here! I am so excited about it and can hardly believe it. If you’ve followed me on Instagram you’ll have heard me talk about wanting to do a video podcast on my Youtube channel. I recently became obsessed with podcasts, and while listening to them I thought, “Hey, I think I could do this, and have it geared towards makers.” I’ve found it so hard to know how to navigate through all of the different aspects of being a maker from the business side of things, to...
2019 Maker Goals FREE Printable for Crocheters & Knitters
How can it already almost be 2019? Wasn’t I going to accomplish more things, crochet or knit more projects, get all those designs on paper, be organized, and buy less yarn? (Haha, who are we kidding, we’ll never buy less yarn.) Well, if you’ve been feeling any of those things, you are not alone! I’ve been looking back at all of the things I thought I’d do, and wondering how I never had the time to get to them. That doesn’t mean that I can’t accomplish them in 2019 though! Throughout this year I found myself not really feeling a...
