I can't quite believe how quickly the weeks are flying by, we are already into week 4 of the Knitcraft Tea on the Green CAL, this weeks pattern is a very simple C2C, I might be wrong but I think this is the first CAL to incorporate blocks with C2C, we seem to have a lot of beginners taking part in the CAL, which is so rewarding! So this block is fab for them to learn something new, and for the more experienced something easy.
See part 4
Seeing someone join and watching them progress is just phenomenal. We have one lady, who said she was brand new to crochet and lacked confidence, wasn't too sure if she would be able to do it, well she's smashed Blocks A to C and was so confident that she started Rosslyn!!!!
She posted a pic of Rosslyn on Helens Hookaholica and the last time I looked she had in excess of 300 likes!
My Rosslyn took a back seat this week, I didn't realise how close we were to 20th august, when I will become a god mother for the first time! I decided I'd like to crochet something for my future godchild to keep, so I started a bobble stitch blanket and I'm made up with it!!! It's a lot of effort but my godchild (Freddie) is so worth it
The blanket is made up of a lot of different blocks that read 'thank heaven for little boys' I thought it was quite apt for a christening.
I've got to be honest though, I didn't quite realise how hard it would be running a CAL, even though @lyndascraftroom and I are running it together, I thought my skin was a lot thicker than it is, I was wrong, it's odd because we have over 1000 people now all taking part, which I think is fabulous for our first cal, we get so many nice comments, and they're all very uplifting, but it's funny how emotionally attached you become to something you have worked so hard on, I mean it's bound to happen, you're bound to get a couple of negative posts out of a thousand people, but it's that one negative post that really bothers me!
Thinking back to CAL's that I have done I've been guilty of it myself, we have had a few patterns where there has been a minuscule typo, we are humans at the end of the day, but people are quick to point them out, or if there is a part they don't like, quick to tell people, but what that does is ignite others to join in, so we have managed to 'manage' the fb page fairly well until last week.
I work full time so I can't be there all of the time and neither can Lynda, so we have been given help by 4 new admin and they have been and are amazing!!!!
I've actually slept! Yes it's been stressful!
But it's all a learning curve and I hope these people stay with us for our next one!
Anyway off to hook!
Happy hooking xx
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