I’ve talked previously about designer pay, and how designers need to be paid more for there to be a chance for marginalized folks to enter and stay in the industry.…
One of the things I see a lot in our knitting community online is anxiety over ethical purchases. We put ourselves through “no buys” with mindsets borrowed from diet culture,…
When I first started my knitting design business, it was to support my friend Jen at 626 Yarn and her Thai Iced Tea gradient sock set. We ended up raising…
Now that we’ve talked about all the ways to evaluate a yarn for sustainability reasons and for our personal values, why we shouldn’t be horrible to other people who make different choices than we do, and the different things that make this a personal choice and not one size fits all… It’s time to take a little look at how I personally make choices as a way to look into how one person might balance different factors in making yarn choices for a better world!
This post is the culmination all of those previous ones. It’s my real life practice for how I really buy yarn and choose who I work with for my business… Exposed for you to see so you can get a good look at how I, a totally imperfect person just trying their best, am making decisions.