My dear kittens: like a lot of us, I have been pulling back from social media the last four years and trying to decide where and how I want to share what I’ve been up to—if I want to share at all. And I think I’ve decided I would like to revive this blog and write long form more often; kick it back to 2008 before IG inspired us all to microblog on their social media app… before Meta came in, gutted it, and turned it into a capitalistic advertising hellscape, shredding the communities we had built there and leaving a lot of us adrift.

My hope is that in this coming year, I will finally be able to finish the blog/site “rebrand” I had started before I was diagnosed with cancer in March 2023, finally making this Cozy Cryptid Crafts instead Knit Cute with the wrong name on it. As time has changed, so have I, and the old name doesn’t really fit anymore. It’s time for a change.

So what will I use this space for? Well, there will still be some old standbys—monthly yardage tallies for what I knit up, and I will still stash track, but it will be bi-annual now instead of three times a year or quarterly—as well as I’d like to revive posts with images, sharing what I’ve finished and maybe even discussing what I’m currently working on. Since I consider journaling/planning craft-adjacent, I may throw in some posts about that too. Everyone likes photos and looking at what other people are up to, right? It’s what made Flickr and IG so great in the beginning. When I do happen to record vlogs, I will likely post those here too, for anyone interested in hearing me talk about crafts rather than write about them. I’m not promising a lot of content or even consistent postings, but I will still be around in this space. As I start to feel more human after my treatments, I will hopefully find more energy to put into writing and making in general.

So. Thank you to anyone who has stuck with me over the years and still takes an interest in what I’m up to. I’m hoping 2024 will be full of better things for all of us, and I hope to see you all more in this coming year.

All the best,
Manda