Favorite Products & Services

Below are some of the products and services I love and recommend, for sewing, knitting and many other things. A work in progress

Sewing and Knitting Books

For Sewing:

• Bosal Create-A-Pattern Tracing Paper. I love this stuff so much, I even wrote it a love letter.
• An LED headlamp. One of my favorite non-sewing sewing tools (see blog post "My 3 Favorite Sewing Tools That Aren't Sewing Tools At All.")

For Making (A Little) Money from Blogging:

• Viglink's awesome and super-easy-to-use affiliate linking system (that link is a referral code that supports this blog!).
• Google Adsense.

For Saving Money and Frugal Living:

• YNAB, aka You Need a Budget ($6 off coupon code referral here). Life-changing software and free classes that lets you shave little bits off of all sorts of budget categories (to you know, make some room for fabric and yarn.)
• ThredUp, online consignment store. Awesome second-hand clothes in great condition at great prices and FREE RETURNS. ($10 off referral code here — you get $10, I get $10).
• Ting prepaid cell phone service — my husband and I were paying $90/month combined for Verizon's cheapest plan with two flip-phones... and now we've got two (used) Android Smartphones and pay $39/month combined. ($25 off coupon code referral here and blog post here).

For Using Your Computer and Smartphone Hands-Free (especially good for RSI and carpal tunnel sufferers like me):

• The best Mac voice dictation and command software in my experience is Dragon Dictate.
• If you have a PC, I hear Dragon Naturally Speaking is even better (and cheaper). My brother tells me it's even more hands-free than the Mac version, too.
• On my Android phone I use a combo of Dragon Mobile Assistant (free!) and the built-in Google Voice Search app (also free).

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