I love a good tweed yarn for fall, and Knit Picks is inspiring knitters to pick up their City Tweed yarn and knit a sweater. The new City Tweed collection has six patterns that can be purchased individually for … Read More ...
Check Out This Amazing Yarn Bomb
This is about three hours from my house, and I ,ay just have to make a trip so I can see it in person. A bunch of knitters and crocheters have yarn bombed the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, … Read More ...
Unraveling May Harm Yarn
We’ve all been there. Either you made a big mistake while knitting and need to rip out a bunch of your work (I have a project on timeout right now for this very reason) or you’ve abandoned a project and … Read More ...
Vote for Your Favorite in the My Mountain Design Contest
A few weeks ago I told you about the design contest being put on by the German yarn company Schachenmayr to promote its My Mountain yarn line. A whopping 215 designs were submitted, which were whittled down to 18 semifinalists. … Read More ...
Tips for Buying Yarn
If you’ve ever been stumped when you go to the yarn store, check out these five tips for buying yarn from the Martingale and Co. blog. This list assumes that you have a pattern in mind so you’ll be looking … Read More ...
Easy Pieces, Multiple Sizes
Ann Budd just released a little pattern book with Quince & Co. called Five Easy Pieces. It includes five patterns — one each for a hat, scarf, mittens, gloves and socks — with instructions for how to work them in … Read More ...
Try Your Hand at Design for Free Yarn, Cool Prizes
The German yarn company Schachenmayr is celebrating the release of its new yarn line in North America with a very cool design contest.
The line is called My Mountain, so the contest is about your personal design mountain, something … Read More ...
Design Contest for the Fibre Company
The Fibre Company has a great collection of yarns, and to celebrate its Savannah DK yarn, the company is hosting a design contest.
Would-be designers are asked to use the yarn to knit a “summer sweater,” … Read More ...
Lies Your Yarn Ball Band is Telling You
I absolutely love this post from Gwen Bortner at Two Sides of the Same Stitch about the top five yarn label lies. Go read it, right now, I’ll wait for you.
These are things that I already know after … Read More ...
Join the Swatch Club
There are so many fun programs for knitters, crafters, kids and just about anyone else who loves getting samples or curated collections of fun stuff these days. You can get a box of just about anything delivered to your home … Read More ...
Help a Really Cool Yarn Company Make More Yarn
It always amazes me the innovation that is still happening in knitting. From different ways to cast on and bind off to new techniques and new materials to knit with, this is definitely a good time to be a knitter.… Read More ...
A Couple of Cool Fiber Projects to Fund
I don’t keep up with all the Kickstarter and similar campaigns that have to do with knitting or yarn, but a couple of interesting ones got on my radar this week, so I thought I’d share.
First, have you … Read More ...
Enter to Win 30 Days of Cotton Ease
Lion Brand Yarn is doing a 30 Days of Dishcloths promotion right now, which involves showing off its great collection of colorful dishcloth patterns as well as running a contest on Facebook.
The prize is 30 balls of Cotton … Read More ...
Happy Birthday Quince & Co.!
It’s the third anniversary of when Quince & Co. opened its virtual doors, and the yarn company is celebrating with a giveaway. This awesome company is super-careful when it comes to how their yarn is made and where it comes … Read More ...
Juniper Moon Farm Starts Digital Downloads
These days we knitters all love instant access to patterns, and Juniper Moon Farm has announced it’s starting to digitize its collection and celebrating with a giveaway.
Eight of the company’s individual patterns are now for sale for instant download, … Read More ...