#fleetingfutures

The smallest mayfly I've ever seen!

as much as i love the backpacks, in order to print them again we would have to run a kickstarter. the minimum order per design is pretty high and the over all minimum order is even higher. and the backpacks themselves are pretty expensive to produce, so even selling them at $60 each, the profit margin is not great.

idk, i would really like to make more backpacks in the future, especially now that we have a separate office space and and would actually have room to store them, but it would have to be a kickstarter or preorders.

also, we did sell bee pattern backpacks, but the factory screwed up the sizing of the pattern so we had to sell them basically at cost because we couldn’t justify charging $60 for them, which was honestly a huge blow financially because the bee bags were the ones we were expecting to sell the best. and they did! but when you sell at cost you lose money because aside from product cost, you have to factor in taxes and human time/work, power, storage space/rent, etc.

Slug time!

This pattern was a little tricky for me because I kept losing count and messing up the rounds, but after I realized that hey, I can actually use the stitch markers that came with my hooks to mark the stitches, it actually went pretty well!

He's very cute, and even though I'm not much of a fidgeter, his segmented body makes him fun to wiggle around.

I started learning to crochet this year! I knew this was a hobby I wanted to try, but I was stumped on what my first piece should be until I remembered seeing these cute patchwork cardigans all over the internet. This sweater took me exactly two months from start to finish, and with how many adjustments I had to make to the pattern for it to fit properly, I’m so proud of how it turned out!

With some of my leftover yarn, I’m making this cute articulated amigurumi fidget slug next! He’s still a work in progress, but I love him already :^)

A northern black widow spider from last summer! I saw this chonky lady hanging out in her web at a trail where I hiked.