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Knit/Crochet Designer Author of cozy mysteries with a yarnie twist Novels📚The Magic Knitting Pattern Book & Death by Drop Spindle 🔗 https://tianconnaughton.thrivecart.com/novels This space = inclusion if that doesn’t work for you✌🏾

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✨REVIEW✨

20.12.2025 17:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Do you read while you knit and crochet? I love immersing fully. Double tap if you do ❤️

If you’re looking for something fun to read - a cozy mystery with a yarnie twist - these 2 books are for you.

Available in digital and paperback copies everywhere📍

Great gift for the yarn lover in your life

20.12.2025 01:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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✨✨✨SYNOPSIS✨✨✨

The Magic Knitting Pattern Book
by Tian Connaughton

When artist and knitter Asante Jones wanders into her favorite yarn shop, she doesn’t expect to find a dusty old pattern book tucked behind a shelf of colorful skeins...

09.12.2025 17:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Did you see this?

If you love cozy mysteries with a yarnie twist...

Get your copy for only $0.99 here⤵️
bit.ly/4raZRdR

29.11.2025 02:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Cautionary Tale for Designers & Creative Business Owners — Tian Connaughton Please don’t do this. So picture this: It’s peak marketing season—Black Friday, Cyber Monday, alllll the holiday sales. I’m checking my inbox, minding my business, and suddenly a random email pops u...

⚠️DON’T DO THIS⚠️

A Cautionary Tale for Designers & Creative Business Owners

📍Please don’t do this.

Read the full blog post here⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.tianconnaughton.com/blog/a-cauti...

29.11.2025 00:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Get 35% off this weekend

deets on blog (tianconnaughton.com/blog)

27.11.2025 01:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Biggest Deals of the Year Are Coming! Here’s Your Sneak Peek — Tian Connaughton The holiday shopping season is almost here, and I’m so excited to share what’s coming your way. Every year, I choose this season to celebrate YOU—the makers, the fiber lovers, the crocheters and knitt...

Biggest AND Final sale of the year. Up to 46% OFF

Get all the details here⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.tianconnaughton.com/blog/the-big...

23.11.2025 01:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg, what a great idea for a book! My daughter has a fiber arts book (series) concept sort of like this and I can’t wait until she writes it.

She has written mostly paranormal romance

www.amazon.com/stores/autho...

23.07.2025 01:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Make sweaters that actually fit

Even design your own sweaters using any stitch pattern and your own measurements

Learn exactly how with this book, Cardigans For Every Body and the accompanying masterclass (video tutorials)

tianconnaughton.com/books

18.10.2025 01:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This looks amazing. Great job 👏🏾

18.10.2025 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My new book, Designed to Sell is now OUT🎉🥳

If you are a crochet or knit designer, you need this resource

This book will help you to
• market
• launch
• sell
your patterns without burnout, overwhelm, or guesswork

To learn more, go to tianconnaughton.com/designedtosell

10.09.2025 01:11 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The first few pages of Designed to Sell is up on my website to read.

Download and start reading today!

👉🏾tianconnaughton.com/designedtosell

25.08.2025 16:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤤🤤🤤

13.08.2025 02:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Keep Earning When Pattern Sales Are Slow (Even During Summer) — Tian Connaughton If you’re a crochet or knit designer, you already know the truth: Summer is a slow season for pattern sales.

Experiencing summer pattern sales slump?

Read this blog post ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.tianconnaughton.com/blog/how-to-...

05.08.2025 14:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My characters don’t just go in the bed.

They get out their outside clothes (cuz gross) and put on a headscarf or bonnet.

They’re Black! They knit. They crochet. They spin. And they’re good!

30.07.2025 00:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Designed to Sell: The Book to Help You Turn Patterns into Profit (Plus Bonuses Disappear July 31) — Tian Connaughton I still remember the first time I released a knitting pattern. I had poured hours— weeks —into it. I wrote the instructions carefully, took the best photos I could, and shared it on social media and ...

🗣️One reader said:
“I’ve read a lot of books on design and marketing, but Designed to Sell is the first one that made me feel like I could actually do this. It gave me a plan and real tools to stop second-guessing myself.” Jessica, designer

www.tianconnaughton.com/blog/turn-patterns-into-profit

29.07.2025 01:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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She’s a Black woman, introvert, neurodivergent knit and crochet designer at a retreat where she knows no one and a murder occurs with her smack in the middle.

Follow Hazel’s adventure as she wade through lies and secrets.

📚Read: Death by Drop Spindle

www.tianconnaughton.com/books

22.07.2025 01:20 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Love this. If you’re lucky it’ll continue past teen years… ask me how I know 😊

21.07.2025 23:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you so much 😊

10.07.2025 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“A sharp and witty new mystery about a fiber arts star juggling success, secrets—and solving a murder between workshops.”

📚Death by Drop Spindle

10.07.2025 17:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From Stuck to Showing Up: How One Busy Designer Got Back in the Game in Just One Day — Tian Connaughton From Stuck to Showing Up: How One Busy Designer Got Back in the Game in Just One Day Meet Maya. She’s a knit designer, a full-time corporate project manager, and a mom of two little ones with energy...

…Now, when Maya has a few minutes between meetings or while waiting in the school pickup line, she pulls out the PDF on her phone and picks one idea to do that day or week….

Read the full blog here⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.tianconnaughton.com/blog/how-one...

10.07.2025 15:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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✨REAL TALK FOR DESIGNERS✨

Are you ONLY showing up when you’re launching something?

If you’re only posting when you have something to sell… your audience feels it.

And if showing up consistently feels icky or overwhelming, I’ve got you.

www.instagram.com/reel/DL2m1Q8...

08.07.2025 16:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Revenue-Generating Ideas for Knit & Crochet Designers: 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Month Guide — Tian Connaughton Get quick, actionable sales strategies with this guide for knit and crochet designers. Discover revenue-generating ideas you can implement in 1 day, 1 week, or 1 month to boost pattern sales, grow you...

If you’ve ever said
“I don’t know what to do this week to make sales”

this is the cheat sheet you’ve been waiting for

No more guesswork or more wasted time

Just clear, actionable next steps to build momentum & make$$ doing what you ❤️

Download your copy now
www.tianconnaughton.com/pattern-stor...

03.07.2025 00:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Need to Make a Sale Fast?

Whether you're just getting started or tired of spinning your wheel

this is your action-packed roadmap to more sales w/ less stress

Specifically for pattern designers, guide delivers realistic, low-overwhelm activities you can implement based on how much time you have.

02.07.2025 23:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@tianconnaughton.bsky.social CERASEE SHAWL ❤️

In this outfit I love how the geometric aspect of the crochet stitch pattern pairs well in a funky way with the floral pattern on the overalls

🧶 Fino Biscotti + Licorice

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

26.06.2025 19:14 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
“Cozy mystery that’s perfect for knitters”

tianconnaughton.com/books

25.06.2025 15:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I think this is my favorite cover. What do you think?

12.06.2025 01:55 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’ve started a broadcast channel to share behind-the-scenes for Designed To Sell (new book)

Join 👇🏾👇🏾 to see table of content + ask questions

www.instagram.com/channel/Abat...

11.06.2025 15:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This shawl pattern is a great introduction to crochet mosaic

Use up those single skeins of fingering weight yarn in your stash.

Grab 2 skeins in contrasting colors

Learn more here⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.tianconnaughton.com/pattern-stor...

03.06.2025 18:23 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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tianconnaughton.kit.com/tianwrites

31.05.2025 17:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0