Dear Crochet Along-ers,
You may have noticed that, although we are up to almost 100 members, the number of active members has dwindled over the past few months until there are now only a few of us still posting. Administering the site and the theme changes takes us a lot of time, and as enthusiasm seems to be waning we just can’t justify spending all that time any more.
It is with great regret that we have decided that we have to close down this group.
It’s not as dire as it sounds: almost all of us have our own blogs, so we can still follow each others’ crocheting adventures. And if you don’t have a blog, maybe this is an opportunity for you to start one! Wordpress provides a 100% free service (it’s what we used for this blog!) and you already have a wordpress username if you are a Crochet Along member, so why not go to http://www.wordpress.com and sign up for your own blog?
Whether or not you choose to blog, there are other forums and online communities available for you to show off your completed crochet projects and post questions. We like the following sites:
New and old bloggers alike, feel free to leave a comment on this post with the link to your blog, so we can all add each other to our feed readers. We will leave comments open for a while so everyone has a chance to say au revoir and pass on our website links. We’ll also leave the site up for the forseeable future, as a reference.
Thank you so much for being a part of this site! We have really enjoyed developing this community with you all, and we hope you understand our reasons for having to close it down. It has been a very difficult decision for us to make.
Keep on crocheting!
Love,
June & Eve
Soooo sad, but totally understand the lack of time thing. I’m now off to make sure I’ve bookmarked everyone 🙂
I complete understand the decision. Hope everyone had a great time as i did. And a big thank you to June and Eve for the great work. You go girls.
Cristina
Now I feel all guilty for not posting more often, but it’s all I can do to keep up with my own. You did a great thing here, and I’ll continue to keep up with as many people as I can. Thanks for everything, see you at your own blogs!
I’ll miss seeing all the great projects here. Stay tuned to the misadventures of my granny square blanket that has problems. I haven’t posted about it yet on my blog but it will be there soon… http://www.donnac368.blogspot.com
Well, I’ve not been a member for so long, but I know I will miss this!
Last month’s theme wasn’t quite mine (I like showing off FO way more than sharing what I’m currently working on) and alas, with the Ravelympics there was much more knitting than crocheting on my plate!
But I guess I will just add a some more blogs to my reader to stay tuned with y’all. 😉
Totally understand the time thing, which is why I haven’t posted much lately.
Happy Crocheting, everyone!
http://www.thecrochetstudio.com/blog
Well bummer! But it makes sense. I did notice it had been waning…
Well, you can find me on Ravelry of course! (Just posted – my Inga bag!)
http://www.ravelry.com/people/curegirl0421
I don’t have a blog, but you can always leave me a message on my MySpace…
http://www.myspace.com/curegirl0421
Thanks for leaving the site up for reference, there’s a TON of links that I’ll eventually want…
Thanks for all the work you did, and we’ll see ya ’round the web! 🙂
– Jaime
Aww, you guys, thanks so much for understanding! I should probably leave my comment too…
You can, of course, find me at PlanetJune:
http://www.planetjune.com/blog
Or on Ravelry:
http://www.ravelry.com/people/planetjune
And if you like paper, you really should check out Folding Trees (run by me and Eve):
http://www.foldingtrees.com
June 🙂
Thank you June and Eve.
well, darn. I just came here from BlogCatalog and here you are closed. 😦 Ah well. Thanks for leaving all the fun stuff up.
sigh… i guess i should have posted more often.. 😦 even my own blog’s been rather dead. thanks june and eve for the admin works though. 🙂
this is depressing. i JUST found this blog. this is the first time ive seen it and the first post says – closing down…….=(
Well I am bummed. I just found this blog. I will look around. I hope all is well.
I just found your blog and seen a lot of good ideas! I’ll add you to my favorites!!!
Hi! I just found this site and got super excited to do a crochet-along (i’ve always wanted to do one!!) but after reading and finding out that it had been discontinued, it’s quite a bummer but one I totally understand! I have my own blog too and I get that keeping up with it takes some work! I hope some of you may visit back here sometimes and maybe you’ll find my blog and I can start following yours too!! Best of luck to everybody!!
Brenda, I’m the admin from this group, and, if you’re interested, you’ll find a monthly crochet-along at my PlanetJune crochet designs group on Ravelry 🙂 (You will need to sign up for a Ravelry account, if you don’t already have one, but it’s free to join and an excellent resource for crocheters!)
June