A new year is approaching. It’s time to talk about what’s going to change and what will be the same for Crochet Buddies. There are lots of opportunities to post. But the content and timing may be different. I’ll explain. When this site began, I had huge plans for it. In July, there was a post a day. It was therapeutic and fun. After a couple of months, I saw that comments weren’t coming in with new posts. It started to get frustrating. Half a year later, and more waiting for someone to say, “Hey, this site is cool, can you write about this or design this pattern?” I began to wonder whether it even made a difference if I posted something new or not; whether anyone would notice. Crochet takes time. Designing a website takes time. I wanted to …show more content…
I’m going to put more effort into making new things, and sharing them. Olive and Yvonne are going to be posting more often (right, you two? ) with lots of new, insightful posts to share. Next Year Crochet Buddies will be expanding to social media. Lots of cool things are going to begin. Which brings us to blog posting, patterns and updates. If you blog or have a website (or know someone who does), you know that posting can sometimes get in the way of things. Life. School. Hanging out with friends. Once a site becomes more of an errand for you, it’s no longer fun. Writing gets a bit dry and redundant. The joy you had before in sharing your projects doesn’t create the same feeling. Readers can see it in your writing. There were posts I had planned to write, new projects and photos I’d wanted to share, but didn’t have the time to. The holidays whooshed by. Things got busy. It’s not because I didn’t want to post, but because the substance was not, in my opinion, cool enough. To keep Crochet Buddies running, I don’t want this to become a partial hobby that phased out. At the same time, I know that studies have to come first. Now I have to figure out a