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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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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!

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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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🧶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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🧶 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!

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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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Pictured is the Glamour Clutch, which can be used to hold your essentials for running errands, for a night out, or as a project bag. The metal frame and felt lining even allow the bag to sit upright when open! 2/2
Two beaded clutch purses, both sitting upright on a table. One is bright yellow with garnet beading which is closed. The other is fuchsia with yellow and purple beading, which is open to show that it is holding a couple of yarn balls.
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 😄

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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

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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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Tania Richter bsky.app/profile/tani... is a genius with double knitting designs. She focuses on the fantastic, including mythical creatures and Celtic knotworks. Pictured is her STUNNING Celtic Sky Dragon shawl. linktr.ee/aetherfang #FastenOffYAL 🧶
Woman holding up a triangular shawl with Celtic knotwork around the angled edges, and a Celtic wind dragon on the body of the shawl, with wings made from triangular Celtic knotwork. The background of the shawl is grey and the motifs are a greenish teal.
November 27, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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🧶 Fasten Off - RANDOM QUESTION GAME :🧶
What pattern from the database would you make more than once? See below for rules 😄
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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"
November 25, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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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"
November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Starting strong with @denisevoiedevie.bsky.social! She designs knitwear, crochet for the home as well as one's wardrobe, and is now hand-painting/dyeing yarns. To get into the festive spirit, we present Snowflake Garland! Check it out: payhip.com/b/AsRvo #FastenOffYAL
Three crocheted snowflakes hung on a garland beneath a bowl of green ball ornaments. One snowflake is round, one is octagonal, and one is flower shaped.
November 23, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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We are proud to announce that the 5th Annual #FastenOffYAL is LIVE! Go to www.fastenoffyal.com and find over 5000 searchable patterns! We'll be hosting a sale and stitch alongs, featuring designers, and playing games on all the platforms linked on the website. We can't wait to see you there 🧶💙
The graphic has FASTEN OFF YAL 2024 www.fastenoffyal.com written on it, and six pictures: an asymmetrical colorblock scarf in yellow, orange, pink, and red, a lace pointed cowl in blue ombre to yellow, a long rainbow stole with small lace holes, a large asymmetric striped shawl in white, with teal, magenta, black, and lime green stripes and chevrons, a quilt with a rainbow of daisies, and a pair of fingerless gloves, one rainbow with white contrast, the other white background with rainbow chevrons.
November 23, 2024 at 2:01 AM