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Random question time!
How are you ringing in 2025? Whether you're joining our New Year's Boonanza on Discord, getting together with friends and family, or thinking up resolutions, we'd love to hear your plans!
Reblog or reply with your answers before 12:00 PST / 15:00 EST on January 1. Everyone who does will be entered in a random drawing to win a pattern prize!
Let's play Scavenger Hunt!
I'll start with a prompt; you reply to this with a link to a pattern from the FOYAL database that matches it, and a new prompt for the next person to reply to.
Links should be to either the database or the designer's website. Try to not repeat patterns, & to let at least 2 other people reply before you play again.
We'll draw winners December 27 at 12:00 PST / 15:00 EST.
To kick things off: Find me a pattern that uses your favorite technique!
Designer Spotlight: Sarah Dawn's Designs
Sarah Dawn (@sarahdawnsdesigns) is a knit and crochet designer specializing in inclusive and accessible designs! Her portfolio boasts a wealth of beautifully textured accessories from shawls to socks to hats.
Pictured above is her Marianna Shawl, a stunning knit shawl loaded with lace. It's knit flat in the round from the center out, and comes with both written and charted instructions. The open texture and giant size make it a perfect transitional piece!
Designer Spotlight: Lene Olszeth
Lene is a librarian and crafter from Bergen, Norway. She designs knitted accessories, mostly with stranded colourwork. Some are inspired by the video games or spooky aesthetic she enjoys.
Their Felwood Socks… Have. It. All! Colourwork, fantastic design elements on the leg, sole, instep, and everywhere; and an amazing homage to the zone of the same name in World of Warcraft. Plus these socks are knit in sport weight yarn, so you can wear a corrupted forest of tainted creatures on your feet sooner than later.
Designer Spotlight: Dyeabolical Yarn
@/dyeabolicalyarn on Instagram is someone who always struggles to find accessory patterns that fit. Her patterns are designed to accommodate larger heads, hands, and feet, as well as smaller sizes, and she's always willing to accomodate people outside of the size range of patterns she offers. There's nothing like acquiring ONE MORE sock pattern to see if it is, pun intended, the perfect fit! This or That Sock pattern, featured, might just be the one! It's a recipe with top down, short row heel construction, and includes pros and cons to different options you might consider for your own perfect socks! Find her on Etsy!
Designer Spotlight: Emily Wood Design
Emily (Emily Wood Designs) is an amazing knitting designer with over 100 patterns to her name! Her patterns feature gorgeous textures and colors that absolutely sing. Pictured here is her Gilded Chains Shawl, which masterfully combines cables, lace, and beads for a stunning finish. Knit with two skeins of fingering weight yarn and optional beads, it's an interesting pattern that will make a cozy and elegant addition to any wardrobe.
The person below me...
Time for another round of TPBM!
Reblog this post and tell us whether the last prompt in the thread is true or false for you, and a new prompt for the next person ("the person below me" or TPBM). We'd prefer prompts to be about FOYAL, but let's at least keep them fiber-arts-related.
Everyone in the thread by December 30 at 12:00 PST / 15:00 EST will have a chance to win a pattern from a participating designer.
The person below me can both knit and crochet.
Designer Spotlight: Made with Love and Fibres
Joanne of Made with Love and Fibres designs patterns for knitting and crochet, including Tunisian crochet! Her patterns play with shapes and colors to create eye-catching designs that are a joy to make and wear.
This is her Florina Cutaway Poncho [x], which cuts a dramatic and unique figure! Inspired by flowers and butterflies, it's adorned with little flowers and leaves for a gorgeous finish.
Check out Joanne's website [x] to see more of her work!
