2025: Just Do It
As a team, we decided that 2025 would be a year of action. A year when we just DID things! We as makers are great at creating reasons not to do something or to delay a decision. Pretty yarn? I have to wait for the perfect project. Stunning pattern? I’ll learn that technique someday. A project for ME? I really should finish so-and-so’s gift first…
This year, we hope to be the friend encouraging you to JUST DO IT! Just use the yarn. Just learn the technique. Just make the sweater for YOU. We want to spend the year encouraging you to take the leap, and being here to support you along the way! Watch for a new theme each month as we take action and do the darn things this year!
Here's how our Action Series is designed to work.
➡️ Step 1 | We announce the theme for each month here and on social media with our rationale for choose that particular theme.
➡️ Step 2 | We will issue a "challenge" or call to action for you, our dear MFY Family, to participate in throughout the month. These will look and feel different each month, but all will be designed to encourage some sort of action on your part!
➡️ Step 3 | We hope you'll share your progress on these challenges with us in the shop, via email, on social media - wherever you connect with us!
➡️ Step 4 | We hold each other accountable. Even if you don't share publicly, our team will be participating in these challenges right along with you! Let us act as your accountability partner and use our updates as a reminder to check in on your own progress!
As we begin our journey to taking action, let's take some time for reflection. This may sound counterintuitive, but thinking about why we do or do not take the initiative to start something can help us better recognize our behavior in the future.
Our team here at MFY is uniquely positioned to help with this as, in our non-fiber lives, we have professional experience adapting behaviors. Realigning our thoughts and actions can give us a boost of confidence, energy and motivation. What better way to start the year!
JANUARY CHALLENGE
We're going to start you off pretty easy. For this challenge, we are going to ask you to honestly answer three questions. Spend a few minutes on these and let them percolate. You may find you want to edit or add to your responses a day, a week, a month later!
🧶 Why do you choose to start something new?
🧶 Why do you hold off from starting something new?
🧶 What can you start in the near future? What goal can you set?
Click the button below to download the free printable worksheet (with additional guidelines from our team!) to help you work through these questions.
We all have those times when we need a push to get things done. While you don't necessarily have to finish something you just started in January, there's probably a WIP hanging out there that needs ends woven in, a pom pom attached, or a second sleeve or second sock completed. Maybe you've got a project in "time out" because you needed to re-do a section or learn a new technique. NOW is the time to pull out these hidden gems and get them finished!
FEBRUARY CHALLENGE
For this month's challenge, we are hosting a weekend-long hat make along. Join us February 22-23 for a fun community event we hope will encourage you to jump in and participate. (And embody the themes of both January and February! 😉)
Our team is recommending the following patterns, but if you have another quick-to-stitch pattern you want to make in a weekend, feel free! We encourage you to join our private MFY Make Along Facebook group to share your plans and progress.
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Click the button below to download the free printable worksheet that was designed to help you get organized for the make along as well as reflect on how finishing a project makes you feel.
We hope to inspire action that makes an impact for you through these challenges As you work through the exercises, we'd love to hear how you're doing! You can email us at social@michiganfineyarns.com or find us on Instagram and Facebook! No personal details need to be shared, but it would be great if our community could come together and support one another to make 2025 a year of action!
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