From 80skeins‘s lovely stat’s page, you’ll see GAL 2015 has 15,915+ KAL/ CAL thread eligible patterns! Of which, 5,065 patterns are part of the initial gift-a-long kick off sale!
All patterns by all participating designers (over 15,000) are eligible for the KAL/CALs and all for sale (not free) patterns by participating designers are eligible to win prizes. So how’s a KAL/CAL-er supposed to find the patterns that they love best? This blog walks you through a few of the options:
The Participating Designer’s Thread This resource was addressed in a previous blog, but to recap, each of our 335 designers are listed in this thread with a preview image of some of the delights from their shop. Scroll through and find one that speaks to you!
Featured Bundles New to GAL 2015 is the group featured bundles. A team of remarkable volunteers bundled all the 335 designers into one bundle and all the 5000+ sale patterns into another bundle in just a few short days. When you enter the group, the featured bundles are shown on the right:
You can select the Gift-a-long 2015 Designers & Eligible Patterns bundle, highlighted in blue. This bundle includes several saved searches to help you navigate the available patterns and use Ravelry search tools to refine the options down until you have exactly what you want.
Or select the Gift-a-long 2015 Sale Patterns Bundle, highlighted in blue. Like the first featured bundle, this one includes directions for pre-defined searching so if you are looking for a particular type of pattern to match yarn in your stash, just follow the directions inside the bundle!
Team Bundle created those two featured bundles in just a few short days. So if you love the bundles, please stop by and send them some love back!
Team Bundle
gannet Team Leader
asimplehomestd
atalante
CarolynMac
Clariceg
DeborahClare
knidhiknits
knittingcarla
ksh
Lakewoodknits
Lewister
lor-artemis
Nell
Robynn
sharonf
tinylovely
VerilyV
Wakefulknits
Wusel1811
The KAL/ CAL threads are another place to find inspiration. See what other people are crafting or ask for recommendations. The chat threads are packed full of resources, as shown in this previous blog here.
I hope you enjoyed the tour of ways to discover your perfect patterns for Gift-a-long 2015. Up next, a recap of the exciting games we play! Until then, Giftalong On :-).