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The smallest mayfly I've ever seen!

Michigan / May 2024

[mayakern]

Hi Maya! Are you planning on bringing the mini backpacks back in patterns other than dungeon delver? I would love one, especially in the bee or snail print!

as much as i love the backpacks, in order to print them again we would have to run a kickstarter. the minimum order per design is pretty high and the over all minimum order is even higher. and the backpacks themselves are pretty expensive to produce, so even selling them at $60 each, the profit margin is not great.

idk, i would really like to make more backpacks in the future, especially now that we have a separate office space and and would actually have room to store them, but it would have to be a kickstarter or preorders.

also, we did sell bee pattern backpacks, but the factory screwed up the sizing of the pattern so we had to sell them basically at cost because we couldn’t justify charging $60 for them, which was honestly a huge blow financially because the bee bags were the ones we were expecting to sell the best. and they did! but when you sell at cost you lose money because aside from product cost, you have to factor in taxes and human time/work, power, storage space/rent, etc.

things are fine now, but at the time it was just... a bad experience. we even popped a tire on the way back from picking up the backpack from a friend (it was a group order) and ended up stranded 3 hours away from home for a couple days because no one had our tires. 😂

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Slug time!

This pattern was a little tricky for me because I kept losing count and messing up the rounds, but after I realized that hey, I can actually use the stitch markers that came with my hooks to mark the stitches, it actually went pretty well!

He's very cute, and even though I'm not much of a fidgeter, his segmented body makes him fun to wiggle around.

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I started learning to crochet this year! I knew this was a hobby I wanted to try, but I was stumped on what my first piece should be until I remembered seeing these cute patchwork cardigans all over the internet. This sweater took me exactly two months from start to finish, and with how many adjustments I had to make to the pattern for it to fit properly, I’m so proud of how it turned out!

With some of my leftover yarn, I’m making this cute articulated amigurumi fidget slug next! He’s still a work in progress, but I love him already :^)

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a talkative eastern meadowlark

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A northern black widow spider from last summer! I saw this chonky lady hanging out in her web at a trail where I hiked.

Michigan / June 2023

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One of my recent exciting bird sightings - this juvenile Cooper’s hawk that landed above my feeder! The yard always empties out for a few hours after they visit, but I love seeing them anyways.

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large white trillium // 26 may 2023