Why start a blog?

It’s a big world & there’s no map

I have really enjoyed learning how to crochet and I’m still really excited about which things to try out and learn next. It’s a whole world of possible creations, techniques, fabrics, tools, people, and more, that I’ve never really thought to engage with before. But now that I’ve scraped the surface, I want to explore it all!

The question is which direction to take, what to explore next? There’s so many options that I don’t know which thread to pull at. I fear that if I embark on big projects without first building up the right experience, a project will fail. And if it fails, it may be a lot of effort wasted, and more importantly I lose momentum and enthusiasm for this craft I’m starting to love. I want to move steady, but also I want to try it all now!

I’ve found very few blogs about others’ journeys into crochet

I’d love to find and read blogs about other folks journeys, which directions they took, where they went wrong, where they learned the most. I want to read about others’ “Eureka” moments and maybe even relate. I would love to find someone in a similar stage of their journey and cheer them on.

Something that saddens me about the crochet world is the vast numbers of folk that have “monetised their passion”. If you search for crochet blogs, you’ll find page after page of experienced crocheters blogging to sell patterns or training courses; all with popup cookie banners, newsletter sign-up forms, and more. I get that folks need to eat, but these sites are so homogeneous I find the whole genre dull. And they lack the wonderment of someone starting out on a journey.

Be the change you want to see

I’m not going to find what I’m looking for—or others looking for the same—by staying quiet or moaning about it. I am being the change I want to see.