Happily Hooked Magazine Issue 002 – Vickie Howell | Page 2

Editor’s Welcome Well, here we are ... Issue 2! With the 1st issue of Happily Hooked Magazine under our belt, I’m happy to admit that we’ve already learned quite a bit, figured out how to improve some areas of our operations, we’ve brought on a couple new and talented people onto our team to help us out, and yes, we’ve even made a handful of mistakes and ran into some glitches (which I suppose is to be suspected), but we’ll chalk those little pesky things up as “learning lessons” and move on! Since our personal commitment to you is to not only share the best patterns, interviews and information from around our little crazy crochet community, but to also try and out-do ourselves each month, I’m extremely proud to say that I think we’ve done just that with issue 2 ... but you can be the judge =) This month, we’re kicking off a few new article series that we’re extremely excited about, ranging from a couple of ‘crochetpreneur’ articles to help you build and grow your crochet business, to a new series that focuses on the SAHM side of our crochet community to an interview from our friend Kathryn Vercillo which focuses on the healing side of crochet. And as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also hear from our cover story Vickie Howell in my 1-on-1 exclusive interview with her, along with a Guinness Book of World Records setting crocheter that I interviewed as well! There’s also product and book reviews, quick tips, Design Wars updates from our friend Salena Baca, a bunch of amazing patterns and projects, and all kinds of other goodies as well! I hope you enjoy reading this issue, as much as we did creating it for you! And if you personally have some great patterns, advice, tips or resources to share with our readers, then by all means, let us know! After all, this magazine is for YOU, so we want to hear from you. Thanks again for reading Happily Hooked Magazine, and Happy Crocheting =) Alison Stay Connected Alison Lütz Co-Founder & Editor Happily Hooked Magazine