I've been meaning to come through to update my various listings, stores, and socials, but the longer I left it the sillier it felt. For some reason, today was the day. As mentioned in previous blogs, my health is an ongoing focus for my attention. My chronic illness is continuing to be variable and trying to manage the many platforms for this wasn't feasible. All my patterns will be available for free on Ravelry moving forward, the existing YouTube videos will remain up and available for the moment. Maybe one day I'll take them down, but the turtles continue to inspire people to try crochet so I'm happy for it to stay. I have disabled the listings on Etsy, but as mentioned, they are available on my Ravelry instead. Shiny Crochet on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/sarah-shiny-kelly Shiny Crochet on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/shinycrochet So what have I been up to and what does this mean going forward? In the last few years since I last updated thi
I have launched a crafting vlog channel: Shiny Crafting on YouTube! !! Crochet may have been my main craft over the last... decade, but now I'm going to be vlogging my hand sewing, embroidery, cross stitch, painting and more. I'll be sharing progress, experiments, and decision making along the way. I'll be posting every two weeks, roughly, with miscellaneous craft related topics. Three videos are live so far on YouTube, and have been sharing various projects on socials in the last few months. Links to the channel and socials are on my LinkTree . (10 minute read) Awkward but excited I may do the odd tutorial, but that won't be the focus. I spend a lot of time each week with tutorials for crochet as Shiny Crochet , and while I love that, I'm very excited to have this separate space for a more relaxed and candid format. Crochet definitely took priority for a long time, but even then I still snuck in other crafts over the years. I would apply it to different things,