Everyone should blog. YOU should be blogging. What better way to hone in those English writing skills and exhibit your crafting work through the medium of written creativity for the bustling audience of the World Wide Web? Put down your knitting needles and your crafting supplies, and prepare to be inspired by some carefully selected reasons why you should start a crafting blog.
1. You have a voice
Why not use your own voice to tell a story? We were born unique yet as a society we are scared of being different and a slave to fitting in. Your opinion is valid - I know what you’re thinking, who would be interested in reading what I have to say? Well, you would be surprised. Blogging is intended to be shared and someone will relate to your story and will want to read more.
2. It teaches you discipline
You have already mastered or are currently in the process of mastering discipline through craft, and blogging is another way to train your brain and snap those neurons into shape. Developing a routine of crafting and blogging, crafting and blogging, crafting and blogging, is a wonderful habit of utilising your free time. Keeping your brain busy by doing something you enjoy is a win-win situation. Discipline makes you feel good and allows you to achieve your goals and starting a crafting blog is the perfect way to accomplish this.
3. It allows the opportunity to build a community
Crafting is already an established community amongst fellow knitters, card makers and DIY enthusiasts. However, it has the capacity to be bigger- a lot bigger. Blogs are published on the biggest stage in the world - the internet. Your work has the chance to be read by an international audience and you have the opportunity to inspire, educate and connect with likeminded individuals. Writing about your crafting methods, ideas, projects, successful and unsuccessful works will make a difference to others. Collaborations, a new friendship, learning- blogging has endless possibilities and perhaps even potential opportunities you would otherwise miss out on.
4. Dear Diary
Blogging is essentially the modern equivalent to keeping a diary. Whether you choose to keep your work anonymous or not, there is a comfort in expressing yourself and allowing the rare opportunity for others to read your inner thoughts. Showcasing your crafting projects online allows perspective and time for reflection. Through the art of blogging you are able to look back on past work and ideas and learn from them. You will develop your confidence, creative outlook and inspire prospective ideas.
5. You have worked hard you are therefore entitled to bragging rights
Your finished works are your shining emblems of success. With the time, effort, sweat and tears from those fiddly pieces of tape and aches and strains from using your trusty scoreboard to ensure those perfect folds, you have more than earned your bragging rights. You should be proud of your achievements and allow your creative gifts to be admired by the online public. Through blogging crafting tips, your finished works, and methodology, you will become the envy of the crafting community. Turn one hobby into another one and watch yourself grow.
6. Why you should start a crafting blog
You are ‘sew’ gifted. Gifts are made to be shared.
