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The Crochet Hook Up - Designing as a community

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A few days ago, i approached Emily from The Loopy Stitch * and asked her if she would like to use some of my already designed flowers for her 365 days of flowers. She almost jumped through my phone with excitement! Why did i offer some of my designs to Emily? It is because Emily has worked so hard over the past few months delivering a new flower design to the crochet community daily. Each day she has been designing, writing, editing and publishing these little flowers for 3mths! If you have designed or tested a crochet pattern, you will know just those 4 steps are very time consuming in itself, let alone doing it every single day. But last week Emily wrote a very raw honest post on  Instagram  .Emily was feeling the 'pressure' of delivering a flower each day and it was taking away her normal crochet time that she loves so much. The community sent an outpouring of love and understanding, and so we should, Emily has worked so hard! All Week i kept thinking about wha