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Giveaway: NeedleTravel Fiber & Fabric Mania Guidebook

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Jennifer is our winner!

The weekend before last I spent in Columbus, Ohio, at the summer show for the National Needlearts Association, the major trade group for needle crafters. I had a great time and met a lot of people in the industry, which was fun.

I also picked up some goodies to share, including this book. The NeedleTravel Fiber & Fabric Mania book is a companion to a website and app that list yarn, fabric and other fiber-related shops around the country. If you do a lot of traveling and like to check in on the LYS while you’re there, this is a great guide. It’s hard to believe that not everyone has smart phones and always on Internet access, but if you’re more of an analog person the paper guide is a great choice.

This book only covers the United States, so please only enter if you live here. Thank you!

If you’d like a chance to win this book, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, June 14. Why don’t you tell me about your local yarn store, if you have one. Mine is Hand Held, a sweet little shop in an old house, with a great selection and a lovely shop cat, Sasha.

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

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Comments

  1. I dont have a local LYS… I would have to travel 25 miles to the closest one. What a great idea book idea though!

  2. Other than Joann’s I go to a store that is call Three Bags Full. The staff is friendly and always willing to help. The store is one I could get lost in their yarns. It is just a great place to go .

  5. There are a couple, but I know that our local Vidlers store carries a lot of yarn. Our elderly friend from Canada likes to shop there when she visits us. Thanks and God bless!

  8. I always look up yarn stores before I go on a road trip or other travel. I also try to buy something local at the stores I visit. A book and companion site/app is a great way to help plan alongside a vacation or business trip.

  9. I’d love to win this guide. My favorite was Yellow Dog Knitting in Eau Claire, WI, but they moved from Barstow Street and I really miss them. So I’ve moved on to quilting – and have too many favorites to list! Sew Little Time in Baldwin, Wisconsin is the closest!

  12. as an avid knitter, cross stitcher and quilter, I would LOVE this book! I always try to find at least one of those types of stores when I am on vacation. My favourite yarn store is Northwest Handspun Yarns, in Bellingham WA….about an hour away from me 🙂

  13. Wow, this a great book since I travel alot! We don’t have a local yarn shop, unfortunately. I have to order all my stuff online because the nearest yarn shop is over 2 hours away.

  15. My lys is an hour away. But they carry a nice selection of yarn and books. I just wish they would carry more crochet material—they cater mostly to knitting.

  17. Mine is The Yarn Shop at Nob Hill, a friendly place with beautiful selection and a welcoming attitude to crocheters. I took an inspiring freeform-crochet class there.

  19. Oh my what a wonderful book idea. We travel a lot and I love finding local yarn and fabric stores.

  20. When I go somewhere I always look up a craft store I can only buy what will fit in my overnight bag that way I can’t go crazy. The book sounds very helpful. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and have a great day.

  21. I generally go to Joann’s for my yarn . I love the idea of your booklet and I have traveling plans for the summer so I could really use it !

  22. My local yarn store is a tiny shop I visit as often as my budget allows. I’d love a directory to all the closest shops I could visit!

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Knit a Linen Stitch Hot Pad

Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough. 

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern. 

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed. 

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do. 

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces. 

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls. 

You can grab the pattern over at Our Daily Craft, or check it out on Ravelry. 

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