Berroco’s awesome Ultra Alpaca yarn is 10 years old, and Berroco has started a mystery blanket knitalong to help celebrate.
The project recently kicked off on the Berroco blog with a log cabin inspired block.
You can check out the … Read More ...
Help Pacifica Yarn Company Launch its Made in America Yarn
Over the holiday weekend, the people behind New Stitch a Day and the 30 Day Sweater launched a new project, called Pacifica Yarn. This will be the first “house yarn” for their new online yarn shop, Argyle Sheep.… Read More ...
Get Some Great Free Patterns for Charity Knitting
Knit Picks has released a great little ebook for charity knitting (and crochet) that includes six projects for each craft that are perfect to make and donate to the charity of your choice. The Helping Hands ebook is a free … Read More ...
Lion Brand Offers Patterns for Curvy Girls
It can be difficult for knitters who need to knit larger sized garments to find projects that are sized to fit them and attractive. Lion Brand Yarn is trying to make that a little easier with the introduction of the … Read More ...
A Summer Shorty Sock Club
SilverSpun yarn is so much fun to work with. I used it over the winter in a pair of gloves, which takes advantage of the conductive power of silver (you can still interact with phones and other screens with them … Read More ...
Tips for Dealing with (and Preventing) Clothes Moths in Your Stash
Once upon a time we had an infestation of moths in our house, but thank goodness they weren’t clothes moths. These are the moths that eat natural fibers, including our knit sweaters and unused yarn if they can get to … Read More ...
Stitch for the Stocking and a Chance to Win $5,000
You might remember last year when I told you about the effort at Yarnspirations to knit the world’s largest Christmas stocking — which is really individual squares measuring 3 feet across — in support of the Children of Fallen Patriots … Read More ...
Giveaway: Lion Brand Homespun
Congratulations to Priyanka!
I had a really fun opportunity to teach a knitting class at a local advertising firm that’s doing some work for Lion Brand Yarn, and to show their appreciation they gifted me with a lot of … Read More ...
Brooklyn Tweed, in Portland
Jared Flood announced on his blog that, after 10 years in New York City — and four and a half years producing yarn — Brooklyn Tweed (Jared and the company) is moving back to the Pacific Northwest. He wrote:… Read More ...
Bernat Recalls Tizzy Yarn
I saw a post from Vickie Howell about Bernat’s voluntary recall of its Tizzy yarn.
The yarn, which is a polyester novelty yarn that has twists of fiber protruding from the core, is being pulled over worries that … Read More ...
Meet WEBS’ Designer-in-Residence Fiona Ellis
This year the yarn store WEBS has started a designer-in-residence program, which means that each month this year they’ll introduce a new pattern by the same designer — odd-number months are knitting with Fiona Ellis and even-numbered months are crochet … Read More ...
Easy Hats to Knit for All
I got a random email from Red Heart the other day thanking me for subscribing to their newsletter (which I have done for a long time, is why it was random) but it included a link to an ebook all … Read More ...
Knitting Fashion Trends for 2015
Happy new year! I hope you’re starting the year off right, with some crafting.
Lion Brand Yarn recently posted a collection of trends they’re seeing in fashion and yarn crafting right now that you might want to take into consideration … Read More ...
Knit Birds from Berroco
Fans of Berroco Yarns got a great surprise in their email boxes recently when the company sent a cute little pattern collection of knit birds.
I don’t want to share the direct links here but you can see the newsletter … Read More ...
Design with Mohair for a Chance to Win $2,000
Vogue Knitting, Vogue Knitting Live and Mohair South Africa are sponsoring a mohair blanket design contest, the winner of which will gt a prize package that includes $2,000 cash.
Knitters and crocheters are welcome to enter the design contest, … Read More ...