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Fasten Off Yarnalong
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We're an accessible, inclusive stitchalong event geared to promoting and supporting independent crochet and knitting designers. We also love building community and giving everybody a fun time!

Find out more at our website: www.fastenoffyal.com
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Fasten Off Yarnalong @fastenoffyal.bsky.social · Oct 1
🧶Reminder: The Fasten Off Yarnalong is right around the corner!

- We're an annual online stitchalong. Check out www.fastenoffyal.com for more info and 2025 schedule!
- Follow our Bluesky feed at bsky.app/profile/did:...

#inclusiveYarnCommunity #knitting #crochet #loomKnitting #TunisianCrochet
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🧶DESIGNERS: BARELY MORE THAN ONE DAY LEFT!

After Sunday, November 9 (ET), designer sign-ups close for 2025!

Sign up at www.fastenoffyal.com/designer-sig... - we'd love to have you on board this year!

#FastenOffYAL #crochet #knitting #TunisianCrochet #loomKnitting #yarnalong #stitchalong
Being a participating designer | Fasten Off Yarn-a-Long
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November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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🧶DESIGNERS: The deadline to join us this year is fast approaching; last day to sign up is Sunday, November 9!

- Signup: www.fastenoffyal.com/designer-sig...
- Info: www.fastenoffyal.com/for-designer...

#FastenOffYAL #TunisianCrochet #loomKnitting #knitting #crochet #inclusiveYarnCommunity
2025 Designer sign-up
We're really excited you're signing up as a designer for the Fasten Off 2025 event! We'll email you once your submission has been processed to tell you about the next steps. We try to respond to all d...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🧶INDEPENDENT #CROCHET AND #KNITTING DESIGNERS (including #TunisianCrochet and #loomKnitting): Sign-ups for our annual yarnalong event are happening NOW!

Don't miss this all-important sign-up window!

Sign-up form: www.fastenoffyal.com/designer-sig...

More info: www.fastenoffyal.com/fordesigners...
2025 Designer sign-up
We're really excited you're signing up as a designer for the Fasten Off 2025 event! We'll email you once your submission has been processed to tell you about the next steps. We try to respond to all d...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🧶 CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!

Our volunteer signup period has begun! The signups we get until October 23 determine which activities, games, and platforms we can support.

Sign-up form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ue5...

Thank you!!!

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2025 FOYAL Volunteer Signup
We couldn't possibly run the event without our fantastic volunteers! The event is filled with lots of activities and games, and we need help to run them all. Volunteer responses will determine which...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🧶Reminder: The Fasten Off Yarnalong is right around the corner!

- We're an annual online stitchalong. Check out www.fastenoffyal.com for more info and 2025 schedule!
- Follow our Bluesky feed at bsky.app/profile/did:...

#inclusiveYarnCommunity #knitting #crochet #loomKnitting #TunisianCrochet
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Today is Canada's National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: to honour children who never returned home, residential school Survivors, and their families & communities. Reconciliation is everyone's responsibility. Our Pinterest board with helpful resources is at ca.pinterest.com/fastenoff/na... #NDTR
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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New feed which captures #FastenOffYAL, #FOYAL, and mentions of our event account! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Follow to keep abreast of event info. Kudos to FOYAL organizer @anniebeeknits.bsky.social for this!

(Caveat: It won't have everything from 2024, but it will be ready for 2025's kickoff.)
February 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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🧶HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

With the ball dropping for 2025, that means the end of another Fasten Off Yarnalong.

We hope you had a fabulous time in our 2024 event, and discovered crochet and knitting designers and patterns that you love!

#FastenOffYAL
January 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What are YOU doing New Year's Eve? Did you know that we have an all-day celebration on the #FastenOffYAL Discord server where you can chat to your heart's content, play games, and win prizes? We call it the New Year's Boonanza! Hop on anytime and join the fun: www.fastenoffyal.com/discord
Games & prizes -- Fasten Off YAL BOONANZA -- Celebrate December 31st in the FOYAL Discord community
December 28, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Britt (knotbadbritt.bsky.social) loves highlighting the beauty of crochet. She is deeply committed to uplifting and supporting BIPOC makers and designers. 🧶
A woman is standing in a field of wheat wearing black pants, a white shirt, and a chunky necklace with white balls. She is wearing the Winter Waves Wrap in the colour maroon. The wrap crosses the front of her body and features a wave pattern at the top. The wrap ends fit over her hand like sleeves. The wrap does not cover her shoulders but wraps around her body instead.
December 23, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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🧶Sue at Granary Knits @veg-grower.bsky.social brings you the best of stranded colourwork and lace knitting. The Feather Cowl brings form, function, and technique together into a beautiful and warm piece. #FastenOffYAL
A cowl with a large scalloped bottom edge sits on a design form. The upper neck portion features black and cream stripes leading down to a feather motif and finishing with a wide scallop hem with a bigger feather motif and a colour change to cream and grey.
December 16, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Aoibhe Ni (pronounced AY-vah NEE) (bsky.app/profile/aoib...) is a Tunisian Crochet, traditional crochet and knit designer from Ireland. She is a designer and teacher, with a range of published designs in an impressive teaching portfolio.
A woman with bright red lipstick looks into the camera with her head tilted to the side. She is wearing a yellow sweater. The top portion of the sweater is worked in crochet and the bottom is knit.
December 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Today's featured pattern is Lady Aston socks by Kate Atherley! The design features a flap and gusset heel for best fit, with a band heel turn, a reinforcement pattern to both the heel flap and the turn, and there’s a no-graft toe! #FastenOffYAL 🧶
Strawberry red socks with two sets of zig-zagging columns with zigzagging eyelets in the center.
December 11, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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🧶 Fasten Off - RANDOM QUESTION GAME :🧶
What's one pattern that has caught your eye in which you'd need to learn something new (a new technique, like brioche, or a new craft, like crochet!) See below for rules, we're keeping it open for 48 hours!

#FastenOffYAL
The Fasten Off Yarnalong logo, a disco ball/ornament/ball of yarn with a knitting needle and a crochet hook in it, surrounded by music notes, stars, and question marks. Text reads: "Fasten Off Random Question"
December 10, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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🧶THREE MORE CHANCES TO HANG OUT!

See www.fastenoffyal.com/schedule.html for dates, times, and links:

#FastenOffYAL #crochet #knitting #TunisianCrochet #inclusiveYarnCommunity
December 9, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Just a reminder that we're still filling out our bingo cards here in HQ! This game goes until New Year's Eve! Play with us! 🧶

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fastenoffyal.bsky.social Fasten Off Yarnalong @fastenoffyal.bsky.social · Nov 23
Welcome to the FOYAL Bingo!

There are two bingo cards again this year! Once the event starts, download the card of your choice, and do your best to fill it up! Of course you can also attempt to fill both of them, or multiple of the same card. 🧵1/7

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Fasten Off Yarnalong BINGO Card 1- "Try All Things" Play from November 22 to December 31, 2024. The spaces: "Plan more projects than you can make during the FOYAL," "Get patterns from multiple participating designers," "Plan ahead and queue a FOYAL project for 2025," "Start your 4th FOYAL project," "Share a design you love by a participating designer with the FOYAL community," "Get a compliment from someone for your FOYAL project," "Start your 1st FOYAL project," "Follow 3 new participating designers (social media/newsletter)," "Play 1 of the FOYAL games," "Fasten off your 1st FOYAL project," "Reach out to the FOYAL community with a question," "FREE SPACE, a picture of the FOYAL icon with music notes around it," "Cast on and bind off FOYAL project(s) in the same day," "Get distracted browsing patterns instead of stitching," "Swap between FOYAL projects to help care for your body," "Start your 2nd FOYAL project," "Get a pattern from a new-to-you participating designer," "Share a FOYAL finished project with the community," "Have a FOYAL wip on January 1, 2025," "Share multiple FOYAL wips in the FOYAL community #FastenOffYal," "Chat with another FOYAL participant," "Fasten off a FOYAL project on December 31, 2024," "Fasten Off your 5th FOYAL project," "Make patterns from 3 different participating designers" Fasten Off Yarnalong BINGO Card 2- "Take Your Time" Play from November 22 to December 31 2024. The spaces: "Follow 3 new participating designers (social media/newsletter)," "Play 1 of the FOYAL games," "Start a 'take your time' FOYAL project," "Share a past project you've made by a participating designer," "Tell crafty friends about FOYAL or make new crafty friends," "Use up half of your 'take your time FOYAL project yarn," "Stitch on a FOYAL wip for 1 hour straight," "Chat with another FOYAL participant," "Get a pattern from a participating designer," "Make two or more gauge swatches before you can start," "Stitch for 1 hour while listening / watching something," "Share your FOYAL wip in the FOYAL community #FastenOffYal," "FREE SPACE: the Fasten Off Yarnalong icon with music notes around it," "Get a compliment from someone for your FOYAL project," "Make stitches on your 'take your time' FOYAL wip every day for 14 days," "Plan ahead and queue a FOYAL project for 2025," "Get distracted browsing patterns instead of stitching," "Share a design you love by a participating designer with the FOYAL community," "Reach out to the FOYAL community with a question," "Take a 24h break from your 'take your time' FOYAL project," "Get a pattern from a new-to-you participating designer," "Take more than 10 breaks between stitching on your project," "Fasten off a 'take your time' FOYAL project," "Have a FOYAL wip on January 1, 2025," "Weave in ends and block a FOYAL project"
December 8, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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🧶Katherine Matthews @kmatthews.bsky.social has been knitting since childhood, and first started noodling out her own patterns in the 1990s. She has a Master of Library Science degree and had some patterns in books by Knitter's Magazine. She self-publishes under the purl diving label. #FastenOffYAL
A headless mannequin wears a bright yellow shawl with a hint of a green tone. The edging of the shawl is done as a row of mitred squares in the yellow and a variegating yarn with pastels and greys. The same contrast colour runs in a single garter stitch ridge around the neck edge.
December 8, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Lola Johnson is the Dyer and Designer behind Third Vault Yarns 🧶 (bsky.app/profile/thir...). Their knitting patterns often take inspiration from geeky things as well as playing with different techniques and construction.
A woman with a long triangular green shawl, with rows of twisted cables running along its length, a section of garter making up a smaller triangle next to the cabled rows. It's a variegated moss green.
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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🧶LAST DAY OF THE SALE IS ALMOST HERE!!!

December 5 (ET) is our very last day of this year's #FastenOffYAL discount period!

(Although of course there's nothing stopping you from continuing to buy crochet and knitting patterns and eBooks after that. We encourage it! :D )
December 5, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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🧶 Fasten Off - RANDOM QUESTION GAME :🧶
What pattern are you ready to cast on RIGHT NOW? See below for rules, we're keeping it open for 48 hours!

#FastenOffYAL
The Fasten Off Yarnalong logo, a disco ball/ornament/ball of yarn with a knitting needle and a crochet hook in it, surrounded by music notes, stars, and question marks. Text reads: "Fasten Off Random Question"
December 5, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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🧶December 3 is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities #IDPD. This day promotes an understanding of disability issues, and mobilizes support for the dignity, rights, and well-being of people with disabilities.

#inclusiveYarnCommunity #crochet #knitting #TunisianCrochet #FastenOffYAL
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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🧶Anniken yarnaddictanni.bsky.social is a Norwegian designer based in the UK, with many years of experience. Her professional patterns are easy to follow, and include patterns for lace knitting, stranded colour work, beaded knitting, brioche knitting for various experience levels. 1/2 #FastenOffYAL
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Knitting Patterns 🐑 Workshops Yarn 🐑YouTube 🐑 Online Courses 🧶 Love of Lace Knitting FB group 🧶 🇳🇴 Norwegian living in the UK 🇪🇺 www.yarnaddict.co.uk
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December 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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🧶 Fasten Off - RANDOM QUESTION GAME :🧶
What new-to-you designer has caught your attention while looking through the database? See below for rules, we're keeping it open for 48 hours this time 😄

#FastenOffYAL
The Fasten Off Yarnalong logo, a disco ball/ornament/ball of yarn with a knitting needle and a crochet hook in it, surrounded by music notes, stars, and question marks. Text reads: "Fasten Off Random Question"
December 2, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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Stana's Critters Etc, @Stanascrittersetc on Insta, has a variety of different creations for you to dig into!

Today's feature is Harvest Poncho, a beginner-friendly stunner knit in two panels and sewn together for a dreamy result. Find it and more here: stanascrittersetc.com

#FastenOffYAL
A blonde woman wearing an orange textured poncho. One panel wraps around the front of the poncho, giving a beautiful draping effect. The texture is knit and purl stitches in a showcase of ribbing panel and checkerboard effect.
November 30, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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🧶COME HANG OUT WITH OUR DESIGNERS!

We're delighted to announce that we've got 18 upcoming live interactive events with a whopping 34 of our participating #crochet and #knitting designers - and likely more to come!

#FastenOffYAL
November 28, 2024 at 11:17 PM