{"id":3564,"date":"2018-11-23T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2018-11-23T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T14:55:49","slug":"the-gift-a-long-starts-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/the-gift-a-long-starts-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift-A-Long starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/indie-design-gift-a-long\">the Gift-a-long<\/a> since the beginning, it starts today!<\/p>\n<p>There is a 25% off sale on many, many designer&#8217;s single, self published patterns, the code is\u00a0<strong>giftalong2018\u00a0<\/strong>you will be able to find and sort them easily because they\u00a0will be in a bundle; all of the sorting tools of Ravelry will work on it for you.\u00a0 Then there is a a wildly chatty KAL\/CAL on all those patterns (not just the ones on sale, any of the for pay patterns of those designers).\u00a0 The forums are so chatty that there is a slow lane thread.\u00a0 There are so many prizes that even I have won stitch markers and downloadable patterns.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the gift crafting and the GAL for a long while,\u00a0 here are some of the posts:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9R9SrEurzO\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/gift-crafting-the-drama-the-pain-the-triumph\/\">Gift Crafting &#8211; the drama, the pain, the triumph?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Gift Crafting &#8211; the drama, the pain, the triumph?&#8221; &#8212; Christine Guest Designs Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/gift-crafting-the-drama-the-pain-the-triumph\/embed\/#?secret=2IaeT54Aqn#?secret=9R9SrEurzO\" data-secret=\"9R9SrEurzO\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kBxtaV1xQ6\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/no-ones-ever-made-me-anything-handmade-before\/\">&#8220;No One&#8217;s Ever Made me anything Handmade Before.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;No One&#8217;s Ever Made me anything Handmade Before.&#8221;&#8221; &#8212; Christine Guest Designs Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/no-ones-ever-made-me-anything-handmade-before\/embed\/#?secret=FSP4xas4kQ#?secret=kBxtaV1xQ6\" data-secret=\"kBxtaV1xQ6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2zYxosNIUT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/1507\/\">As If I&#8217;d Planned a Campaign<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;As If I&#8217;d Planned a Campaign&#8221; &#8212; Christine Guest Designs Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/1507\/embed\/#?secret=lDyNjGIZ7E#?secret=2zYxosNIUT\" data-secret=\"2zYxosNIUT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been part of the Gift-a-long since the beginning, it starts today! 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