It’s hard to believe that it was Christmas 2014 that I first started selling crochet cup cozies at a local coffee shop. My little hobby business grew pretty slowly by opening an Etsy shop in 2015. My first craft show was Christmas 2016.

This holiday season was my best yet. Not only was it successful, I found my niche in terms of finished products! I crocheted a lot of things starting in September and sold every single bit of it! I took some time between Christmas and New Years to reflect on the future of And She Laughs Crochet.

2018 will bring some big changes to my personal life… Baby Skipper is coming in April! In light of that, I wanted to adjust and diversify. I will continue to make finished product – but will focus on made to order items.

The big And She Laughs news – although not quite as big as a baby announcement – is that I am going to shift a lot of my focus to designing and publishing PATTERNS! Most of my patterns will be free and will be published right here on my blog. That will come along with some blogging – mostly crochet but a little about my life too. I will also make all patterns available in PDF format – ad free – for a small cost.

Coming up first is Andrina the Mermaid! I have found some awesome people to test out the pattern this week and will hopefully publish it next weekend. I’m so excited to see other people make my designs!!! I have some patterns in the queue but I also have some really cool ideas that I’m excited to get to.

The next pattern that I’m working on is the deer mount. I want to give it a name when I publish the pattern… any ideas? Leave me a comment and let me know.