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Craftsy Offering 45 Days of Free Classes

September 7, by Sarah White. 3 Comments

I’ve been writing about the news surrounding Bluprint/Craftsy and its new owners for a while now, so it seems like it’s time for an update on the next chapter.

Quick recap: back in May, NBCUniversal, which had purchased the online crafts education platform Craftsy back in 2017 and renamed it Bluprint was planning to shut it down. Then in July, TN Marketing, which runs several craft themed educational websites, said it would be buying certain assets of Bluprint and revamping the site again, changing the name back to Craftsy.

That change has now happened, and to celebrate the company is allowing free access to all classes for 45 days. (I assume this is the same as when Bluprint did it that you can watch the classes but not access downloads such as patterns).

A monthly membership, which allows you to access unlimited classes, will run $7.99 a month or $79.99 when you purchase a year’s access. You can also purchase individual classes. I looked at the knitting classes and it looks like they range from $4.99 to $39.99 depending on the length and complexity of the class.

People who had membership to Bluprint or had purchased Craftsy classes in the past can access the free membership by using the email associated with their account to change their password. The company notes that people who have purchased classes cannot access them through their accounts right now but they can stream them as part of the free access.

I signed into my account and it looks like I have a premium membership through Oct. 16. As mentioned above I cannot see classes I bought previously, but it does look like this premium access allows you to stream classes as well as download patterns, unlike when Bluprint had free streaming earlier this year. I did not give them credit card information so I assume at the end of the free period I will go back to not having a membership but at some point will be able to access those classes I purchased. I will continue to update as things change.

What do you think of this new change? Are you going to give the new Craftsy a(nother) chance? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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  1. Cathy says

    September 8, 2020 at 9:35 am

    I always enjoyed Craftsy. Glad they switched the name back, most crafts people can relate to that name rather than Blueprint. I like the idea best to just buy what classes I am interested in.

  2. Maria says

    September 16, 2020 at 7:48 am

    I had several classes in my library. I hope I will be able to access them. If I can’t, I will be reluctant to purchase any others.

  3. Kathleen Gugin says

    September 19, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    I purchased several classes through craftsy which were supposed to be mine to own forever and then I became an annual member and used the membership frequently and was given several free own forever classes which I took advantage of. Now it appears that I cannot access any of that which makes me very reluctant to join again. What is the deal with this. I was charged $150.00 to renew my membership in a company that no longer existed but did complain and get my money back. I am really frustrated and confused.

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Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

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