If you’re a manufacturer whose products are sold through online retailers as well as brick-and-mortar stores, you may have been advised that you need to enforce a MAP (minimum advertised price) policy with your retailers. If you’re a retailer, particularly one with an online shop,...
Whenever we head over to Ravelry to check out the patterns on the Hot Right Now (HRN) list or see what new yarns have been added to the database, we can almost always guarantee that we’re going to see fingering-weight shawl patterns on the HRN...
Our last post examined the trends we’re seeing in needle-arts crafting, both decorative and practical, as we move into 2017. In this post, we look at trends in the fiber crafts, including paper crafts. Yarn and Fiber Crafts The extreme knitting and giant yarn projects are still...
As a self-employed craft industry professional, you wear a lot of hats. It can be difficult to figure out which tasks you can contract out and which are essential to your creative vision, but allocating your time and energy efficiently will make both your business...
When does the holiday shopping season begin? Your answer may reflect your engagement with online shopping and social media. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are so five years ago! Now that we all have smartphones and spend more of our time on social media, shopping...
If you went to TNNA this June, or have been stalking Pinterest in the last year or so, you may have noticed an increase in the popularity of spinning and weaving. This trend seems to be just beginning, and we are here to help give...
The Stitchcraft Marketing team are active participants in the fiber world, designing, knitting, crocheting, spinning with Spinzilla, weaving and attending local and regional fiber events. Rebecca, our account manager who lives in Connecticut, says Rhinebeck is second only to Thanksgiving for her favorite fall events....
We took another snapshot of the Ravelry Hot Right Now (HRN) pattern list during the third week of September 2016. It was a particularly interesting week as it was marked by the release of the Brooklyn Tweed Fall 16 Look Book and Tin Can Knits’...