It’s the sparkliest time of the year: the Indie Design Gift-A-Long on Ravelry started yesterday evening and I’m one of 262 participating indie designers this year! 🎉

What’s the Indie Design Gift-A-Long (or GAL)?

It’s one of the biggest worldwide event hosted on Ravelry to celebrate indie pattern designers with lots of knit and crochet-along, contests, treasure hunts, and prizes! And it’s also the biggest pattern sale of the year for most of us.

Tons (262!) of indie designers will be discounting between 10 – 20 of their patterns 25% for this event and I’m proud to be part of them. I’ve selected 20 of my patterns to be included in the sale: socks (and the Marked Trail slippers), mittens/mitts, hats, shawls,cowls, and even the Aerial shrug. My little early Christmas gift for you ☺️ You can check all of my included patterns in the specific bundle I created for it. All of the patterns included in the sale are listed in a specific bundle here, and all of the pattern eligible for the KALs/CALs (= all of the patterns of the participating designers) are listed in this mega-giga bundle (23000+ patterns!).

When?

The pattern sale itself run from now (Tuesday evening actually) up to Monday, November 27, 2023 at 11:59 pm (23:59) US-EST. The KALs/CALs ends with the year itself, with a deadline on December 31, 2023 at midnight US EST.

Don’t want to miss the deadlines but not sure how 11:59 PM US-EST convert in your time zone? Click here to check it.

I’ve already started to browse the huge bundle of patterns from all the participating designers. The little one needs a new hat and new mittens so I’ll be joining the KALs with these projects once I’ve finished her cardigan 😊 I’ve selected the Beeswax Hat by Baroque Purls and the Palmistry mittens by Tellybean Knits. Can’t wait to start and join the fun of the GAL (and maybe win some of the prizes!).

PS: I’ll be publishing my top picks in each categories on the blog this next few days. If you need inspiration to start you next project but don’t have time/want to browse the whole bundle, be sure to check here daily or to subscribe above to get email notifications when I publish a new blogpost 😉