If you follow a long to Pampered Treasures, you will see there is a Yarn Treasure. It looks like yarn, and inside there are two awesome goodies. A surprise stitch marker, and a crochet pattern. I am a knitter and crocheter as well, so I teamed up with two awesome makers and friends to help me in this venture! Ruth from 12SquaredCreations is the stitch marker queen, and really queen of anything that can be made! She successfully does it all from crochet, pattern designing and even soaps and melts to name a few. You should also check out her hand dyed yarn. She is so inspiring!! Her packaging is also THE BEST I have ever seen. All her items are elevated from this, and unwrapping them makes them truly a gift times 10, and makes them that much more special. The care and attention to detail is just amazing! So if you want to be wowed, seriously go check her shop out!

Here is more about Ruth and 12SquaredCreations written by her:

“Hi, my name is Ruth and online you’ll find me most everywhere as 12SquaredCreations. I’m asked a lot where that name comes from, so I’ll tell you right up front that my birthday is 12-12, and so as a teenager when it was cool to have tags or awesome screen names I came up with 12Squared and it stuck. I’m also apparently not the only one to think that way, there’s a retired man in Florida who uses TwelveSquared as his email address and sometimes we have to forward mail to each other, so I asked him once and his birthday is also 12-12! He’s about 40 years older than me, so we had some really fun talks about how different life is now from when he was my age. And that little story sums me up.
I’ve loved being creative and being social for my whole life. My mom taught me to crochet as a little kid and so I started by sewing long strings of chained yarn into different shapes of fabric or braiding them into hair ties etc… and quickly moved to making actual things. I took a break when my son was in the middle “very busy” ages because we were out and about too much for me to really have time to crochet. I came back to crochet when I wanted to make and design clothing and wearables made with plus-size people in mind. I’d been away for so long I felt like I should work my way up from the ground up and so I started making one or two of everything I could find from hats and scarves to lacy necklaces and bracelets and shawls and blankets and amigurumi (cute crochet doll.) I had no clue how addicting amigurumi were going to become. I now design 5-10 new ones a month along with other projects.
Through my whole life I’ve done little crafty projects and made jewelry and other pretty things that can be given as gifts or sold in craft fairs. At the moment I’m actually clearing out all the crafty things I’ve decided I WON’T do or won’t continue to do in order to better focus my creativity on the things I love doing, which currently include crochet, dyeing my own yarns, resin trinkets cabochons and art pieces, jewelry making, polymer clay sculpting, drawing and painting, recently I’ve added candles, wax melts and homemade hand salves and lotions and then there’s what I call “assembly crafting” where two or more of the above get combined, which happens almost every day because I make my own zipper pulls and charms to put on crochet items! 
I maintain a blog where I try to provide free tutorials and patterns on a regular basis. I used to maintain four blogs (there’s that social part) and really only maintain my business one now. I keep my Instagram feed hopping with tons of pictures every day and I pin on Pinterest at least once a day as well because someone is always doing something amazing that needs to be saved and looked at and admired! I regularly cruise Ravelry as 12Squared because there’s always someone using a new technique that must be learned!
I also have an Etsy store that has been the love and hate of a lifetime! It never really seems to matter what I put there, a little bit sells and the rest hangs out here in bags and boxes until I go to a craft fair or have a clear-out just to make more and start all over… because for me it’s become clear that this is always going to be about me making things and trying new things and having fun playing with color and shapes and enjoying being creative. Things in the shop are now really pointed specifically at crochet because I didn’t want to confuse shoppers with my “gross of cute, kitschy and kawaii” products.
If I had to give one piece of advice to anyone else out there who is a maker and a creative like me it would actually be two things. Don’t do it just to sell it. That’s number one. It almost never really gives you what you put into it when you only do it to make money. Do it because you enjoy it and want to share it. That’s the most important one even though it comes second. Love what you do and the rest will come together. I get disheartened because I feel like I put my heart and soul into things and they go unnoticed… and I never stop because what I love doing is making and creating and seeing it all piled up as things I’ve done. 
So yeah… Don’t just make it to sell it and do what you love and enjoy!
Oh… and a wise friend once said… LIST IT AND FORGET IT… it’s an awesome rule for your stuff. List it wherever you’re selling and then instead of advertising sales and discounts and all that stuff… share what you’re doing and where it can be seen. Real fans WILL find it. I photograph while I’m working for just this reason… that way I have pictures to post LATER… sort of teasers to things that are hanging out making me happy.
Hugs… I can’t wait to learn about what you do and what makes you happy.” – Ruth

Here are some of her awesome links too, so make sure you go check them out and give her some love!!

Instagram, Etsy, and her blog!! Enjoy!