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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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🧶#FastenOffYAL HAS BEGUN!

* Start your yarnalong projects
* On our website:
- Find out who our participating designers are
- Search & shop for over 5,500 crochet and knitting pattern products
* Use event code FO2025 to get 25% off a selection of those products (over 4,300 are code-eligible!)
Fasten Off Yarn-a-long: An independent designer event
We're an accessible, inclusive stitchalong event geared to promoting and supporting independent crochet and knitting designers.<br>We also love building community and giving everybody a fun time.
www.fastenoffyal.com
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🧶SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES ON CYBER MONDAY!

There's a trend now to counter the consumption/consumerist culture, and if you'd like to get in on that - or even if you just like supporting small businesses generally - the #FastenOffYAL is here to help!

#crochet #knitting #WeAintBuyingIt #SmallBusiness
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Time to roll up your character; we're going on a knitting adventure. With the Crit Roll Socks from FlaviMakes, the TTRPG fan in your life will have cozy toes and be ready for anything!
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Looking for a practical AND creative knit? The Modular Bento Bag pattern from Shanalines Designs is for you. This innovative bag system has four sizes for all your carrying needs, and gives you the freedom to play with color and pattern. They also make beautiful gift bags!

#knitting #yarn #crafting
Two hands hold the I-cord straps of a black, teal, and white striped modular-knit tote bag.
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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While potato-chip knitting can be tasty and fun, sometimes the you want something juicier. Enter Paola Albergamo's Kryla lace shawl, in three delectable sizes. With a delicate motif echoing majestic mountains, this knit will satisfy your appetite, whether you want a nibble or a full-course meal.
Paola stands before a mountain sunset, with her outstretched arms showing off a blue and gold lace shawl with an intricate chevron motif.
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Whether you land on the decorating-after-Halloween or the decorating-just-before end of the winter holidays spectrum, the Mistletoe pattern by Taylor Rutledge of Needle Fox Arts @needlefoxarts.bsky.social works for you! It knits up quickly, it can be reused, and it's not poisonous to pets!
A leaf-green knitted mistletoe made with icord and garter stitch, with little pearl berries
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The worst part about sweaters is the sleeves. That's just science. Thanks to Helena from Colorway Knits, the sleeves of Amazing Lace sweater will keep you interested, AND there's a great lace panel, to boot!
A light gray knit sweater with a large lace leaf motif in an eyelet lace yoke with cables down the center front
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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🧶#FastenOffYAL HAS BEGUN!

* Start your yarnalong projects
* On our website:
- Find out who our participating designers are
- Search & shop for over 5,500 crochet and knitting pattern products
* Use event code FO2025 to get 25% off a selection of those products (over 4,300 are code-eligible!)
Fasten Off Yarn-a-long: An independent designer event
We're an accessible, inclusive stitchalong event geared to promoting and supporting independent crochet and knitting designers.<br>We also love building community and giving everybody a fun time.
www.fastenoffyal.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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🧶 ARE YOU READY? IT'S ALMOST HERE!

The 2025 #FastenOffYAL starts at 9pmET today!

While you're waiting, we want to know what questions YOU have of our designers, and what topics YOU would like to hear them discuss. Submit your questions and topics at www.fastenoffyal.com/ask-designers
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November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🧶I'm so excited to be a designer in the Fasten Off Yarn Along. There are lots of designers involved, lots of pattern options, and it is going to be a lot of fun. More information over at @fastenoffyal.bsky.social for all your questions and sign up needs. 🧶
A graphic with yarn and text announcing that tomorrow we start off the Fasten Off Yarnalong. The Needle Fox Arts logo is in the lower left corner. The graphic is mostly blues and reds on a neutral background. #fastenoffyal #fastenoffyarnalong #fastenoff2025 #knittingpatterns #knitweardesign #knitweardesigner #knittingpatterns #knittingpatterndesigner #knitting #knittingpatternsale
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🧶 So what IS the Fasten Off Yarnalong?

This is an online stitchalong event (crochet and knitting) where, to participate, you make a project using a for-pay pattern from one of our participating designers. It starts at 9pmET on November 21 (Friday!), and runs until the end of 2025.

#FastenOffYAL
Fasten Off Yarn-a-long: An independent designer event
We're an accessible, inclusive stitchalong event geared to promoting and supporting independent crochet and knitting designers.<br>We also love building community and giving everybody a fun time.<br>I...
www.fastenoffyal.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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...
www.fastenoffyal.com
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!!!

#FastenOffYAL #knitting #crocheting #loomKnitting #TunisianCrochet
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