This sweet scarecrow is officially with testers and will release August 21 at marcymade.co Anyone else ready for Fall!? 🧶

I want to get a sense of the different needs of our community. Are you brand new to crochet? Brand new to amigurumi? Super experienced? Tell me below, pretty please! :)

Have you ever looked around and felt like every other maker, crochet designer, or creative business owner is growing faster than you? Maybe they are releasing new patterns, posting consistently, launching collections, and showing up online while you feel like you can barely keep up with real life. In this episode of Simply Hooked: A Crochet Podcast, I’m sharing a personal mindset reset after taking nearly two months away from the podcast. At the beginning of the year, I had big goals for my crochet business, but after our family made the decision to relocate, the next few months were full of moving logistics, realtors, buying and selling a house, packing, unpacking, working full-time, childcare, sickness, and trying to settle into a new season. If this episode encourages you, share it with a crochet friend, maker, or creative business owner who needs the reminder that she is not behind.

Friends, if you received an email from me yesterday asking questions about join this community, it's likely because I added a paywall. The primary reason is to keep the bots and scammers out because I want this to be a troll-free, supportive community! [And there's been an uptick in this activity for a couple weeks now both here and on my website.] But with that, I'm also going to be adding more value to the community so it's worth the paywall. If you're already in the community, YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING! You've been grandfathered in. This will only be applied to new members from here on out. I'm also open to ideas for what sort of things you'd like out of this community. What do you need or want that would be helpful? 🤔

Friends, I'm giving our Skool community a facelift! As part of that, I'm going to start sharing new patterns releases + podcast episodes in the Skool group 24 hours before the rest of world has access 🥳 There are two new classrooms called The Podcast Porch and Fresh off the Hook where these will be stored from here on out. Enjoy early access to this new podcast episode about hand dying yarn, that won't be released on Apple or Spotify until tomorrow! 🥳