Crafting Connections {a soulemama sponsor}

Greetings from Crafting Connections! 

At its' heart, Crafting Connections is two women. Together as mothers and friends, they share their enthusiastic love of creativity with anyone who will listen. Their sole objective is to inspire families to live the creative life of their dreams by providing the practical tools, creative inspiration, and a bit of cheerleading along the way.

Andrea and Danielle post frequently on their blog and on instagram, but their favorite place to share is the tiny little corner of the internet they've carved out in their newsletter. There they send essays, photos and other lovely stuff all with the purpose of inspiring creative families. 

SouleMama: Since the last time you were featured on SouleMama, in what ways has your business grown or changed? Is there anything new you'd like to tell us about?

Andrea & Danielle: Since we were last featured on Soulemama (hello, again, waves!!!) we haven't changed all that much with one exciting exception. Just today - yay! -we released the newest publication in our lineup - the very first issue of our essential guides.

With each essential guide we'll be trying to make creativity just a tiny bit easier and more accessible. To do so, we'll be helping readers to break down a particular barrier, something that is standing in their way.

 

Issue one of our essential guides is all about getting gauge in knitting. Measuring and getting gauge is often enough to leave beginning knitters feeling more than a tad confused. Well, we can take care of that! Issue one has a full length article (along with lots of maths!! - don't be scared) teaching you the ins and outs of getting gauge, a pattern to practice your newfound gauge getting skills, a tutorial for involving the little ones in knitting differently, an essay, beautiful and inspiring photography, and more. Really, we could go on and on. We're just that excited to share this.

This weekend, Crafting Connections is generously offering the following gift to THREE lucky SouleMama readers:

A free issue of our newest essential guide to getting gauge. In the comments, tell us what creative barriers or struggles you face, something that you might like us to tackle in a future essential guide.

For everyone, we've got a promo copy of our latest creative notebook, all about creative strategies for coping. (full issue available only to our newsletter subscribers) 

In addition, Crafting Connections is offering all SouleMama readers 50% off for our shop - all back issues and the newest essential guide. Use the code SOULEMAMA.  Discount good until 8/21. 

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To enter today's giveaway, leave a comment below (one entry per person, please). Comments will close by 9am EST on Sunday. Winners will be chosen by Random Number Generator and announced in this post shortly after. Comments closed. The winners are...

Thank you...this looks interesting.
Posted by: Bloomingheather

Now THAT is the thing....gauge. I would appreciate any help I can get with this!!
Posted by: sageandspirit

Oh wow! Thank you so much for the discount code and giveaway! I have two big(ger) challenges: 1) Choosing colors. I believe some people have an innate eye for color and others do not ... and I am in the latter group. Somehow my color projects just never look quite right. 2) Project burn-out. For some reason by the time I finish a knitting project, I hate it. I can only see the mistakes, or it doesn't fit quite right, or it's not quite what I envisioned. For me this is happens more with larger projects than smaller ones, maybe I have knitting commitment issues?
Posted by: mollysusie