Good morning everyone! ❤️🧶 First, thank you for your patience with me yesterday. I ended up sick with viral strep throat, so I took yesterday to rest and our Day 10 Anniversary Challenge post didn't happen. I'm doing a bit better today, and I really appreciate everyone who kept the community going, kept chatting, helping each other and working toward those 100 activities even though I wasn't around. ❤️ And really... that's exactly what a community is supposed to do! So today we're combining... 🔥 DAY 10 + DAY 11! 🔥 Just because I didn't put up our Day 10 post doesn't mean yesterday didn't count! If you completed 100+ activities yesterday, you've earned another qualifying day toward the challenge. And I need your numbers so I can keep tracking everyone! 👇 Please comment with your DAY 10 total: 🔥 Day 10 / Friday — _____ activities Then keep working on Day 11 today, and we'll report those numbers tomorrow! And if you didn't make 100 yesterday, still give me your total. Remember, you have some breathing room built into the challenge. 🆕 NEW HERE? YOU CAN STILL JOIN THE CONTEST! If you've recently joined CMK—or you've been here but haven't started the challenge yet—it's NOT too late to participate! We're counting down to CMK's FIRST BIRTHDAY on October 17th with our 30 Days to ONE Anniversary Engagement Challenge! 🎂🎉 For those who started with us on September 16th, the challenge is: 🔥 Complete 100+ genuine community activities in a day 🔥 Do that on at least 26 of the 30 challenge days 🔥 Qualify for our Anniversary Prize Draw! But here's the important part: You do NOT have to have started on Day 1! If you start later, your requirement is prorated from the day you join the challenge. You are not expected to make up the days you've already missed. So if you're starting with us on Day 11, we'll calculate your qualifying requirement based only on the challenge days you have remaining. Just start working toward your first 100 activities TODAY! 🔥 And this is open to EVERYONE—Standard, Premium, VIP and Inner Circle members. ❤️

Okay... it looks like our community has been moving so quickly that THREE members reached Level 8 and I may have missed giving them the celebration they deserve! 😂❤️ So we're fixing that right now! Please help me give a HUGE CMK congratulations to our newest Level 8 Inner Circle members: 🎉 @Gaelene E 🎉 @Stefanie Byrd 🎉 @Jeanne Im Reaching Level 8 is a BIG milestone! It represents the time you've spent participating, contributing, helping, encouraging and connecting with other members throughout CMK. ❤️ And reaching Level 8 also means you've earned your place in our CMK Inner Circle—members who have demonstrated a real commitment to this community and get some extra opportunities to have input, share ideas and help us continue making CMK better. Gaelene, Stefanie and Jeanne, thank you for everything you've contributed to get here—and I'm sorry if I missed the exact moment you crossed that Level 8 finish line! 😂❤️ But we're celebrating you NOW! 🎉🎉🎉 Everyone, please help me fill the comments with congratulations for our THREE newest Inner Circle members! 👇🧶❤️ 🎊 WELCOME TO THE INNER CIRCLE, GAELENE, STEFANIE & JEANNE! 🎊

Today we're celebrating someone pretty special around here—our Lead Admin, @Paul Brown ❤️🧶 Paul has been with CMK from the early days and continues to give so much of his time, knowledge, encouragement and support to both our members and me behind the scenes. Paul, thank you for everything you contribute to CMK and for helping make this the supportive community it is. Please join me in wishing Paul a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎂🥳🎈 Drop your birthday wishes for him below! 👇❤️ 🎂 INNER CIRCLE BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUTS Birthday recognition is one of our Inner Circle community benefits. ❤️ If you're an Inner Circle member and would like us to celebrate your birthday here in CMK, please send me a private message with the MONTH and DAY of your birthday. I don't need the year! 😂 That way I can make sure your special day doesn't slip past us without a little CMK birthday love! 🎉🧶❤️

It's time for our weekly CMK Leaderboard Shoutout! 🎉🧶 Before you look at the leaderboard this week and think... “Wait a minute... something changed!” 😂 You're right! You're going to notice some names moving up and a couple of familiar names disappearing from the leaderboard. ❤️ WHERE DID AMANDA & SUSAN GO? Don't worry—they haven't gone anywhere! 😂 Our two newest Admins, Amanda Berridge and Susan Weller, are no longer shown on the community leaderboard because Skool removes members from the leaderboard when they become Admins. So with Amanda and Susan stepping into their new Admin roles this week, their names have come off the leaderboard—and that means some of YOU have moved up! 🎉 Amanda and Susan are still very much here, participating, encouraging, helping and supporting all of you. They just won't be competing for those leaderboard positions anymore. 🏆 THIS WEEK'S LEADERBOARD! 🎉 @Barbara Amarillas 🎉 @Dd Stoller 🎉 @Tina Bryner 🎉 @Christine Wharton 🎉 @Linda Simard 🎉 @Chris Muggleton 🎉 @Janie Dillon 🎉 @Susan Sams 🎉 @Sharon Dove 🎉 @Michelle Childers 🎉 @Louise Brau 🎉 @Jeanne Im 🎉 @Vicki Lynch 🎉 @Angela Skelton 🚀 AND A SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO LOUISE BRAU! I have to recognize Louise Brau this week! 🎉 Louise joined our community on September 15th and she is ALREADY AT LEVEL 7! 😲🔥 That's an incredible amount of engagement in such a short time. Louise has jumped right in, joined the conversations and become part of our community incredibly quickly. Way to go, Louise! ❤️🧶👏 A HUGE congratulations to everyone who made it onto the board this week! ❤️👏

Good morning everyone! Welcome to DAY 9 of our 30 Days to ONE Anniversary Engagement Challenge! 🔥🧶 Today I want to change the focus a little bit. Instead of just talking about numbers, I want to talk about YOU—and how much this community has grown. ❤️ When I look at CMK today compared with where we started, I'm honestly amazed. We've grown in numbers, yes—but that's not the part I'm most proud of. We've grown into a community where people help each other. Where someone posts their very first project and people celebrate with them. 🎉 Where a beginner can ask a question without feeling silly. Where experienced knitters freely share what they've learned. Where friendships are forming between people who probably never would have met otherwise. Where we laugh together, learn together, encourage each other and occasionally enable each other's yarn purchases. 😂🧶 THAT is what I wanted CMK to become. And none of it happens because of one person. ❤️ SO TODAY I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. Thank you to every person who posts. Thank you to everyone who answers someone's question. Thank you to the people who quietly leave a ❤️ on someone's project. Thank you to those who welcome our new members. Thank you to our experienced knitters who patiently help our beginners. Thank you to the beginners who are brave enough to ask the questions that 20 other people probably wanted to ask too! And a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone participating in this challenge. You have taken it seriously! 😂🔥 I've been watching the conversations happening throughout the community, and THAT was the whole reason for doing this. The prizes are fun. The numbers are fun. But YOU connecting with each other is the real purpose. ❤️ 🔥 MY DAY 8 TOTAL Yesterday I finished with... 106 ACTIVITIES! 🎉 Not exactly an overachiever yesterday. 😂 But 100 is the goal and 106 COUNTS! Now I need yours! 👇 Comment below with your DAY 8 / Wednesday total: 🔥 Wednesday: _____ activities Even if you didn't reach 100, please give me your number because I'm tracking everyone's progress.