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Help Stomp Out Bullying with Blue Hats

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blue hats anti-bullyingLion Brand Yarn has teamed up with STOMP Out Bullying (a national nonprofit aimed at changing the culture for kids to reduce bullying, cyberbulling and other forms of abuse) on a project that knitters and crocheters can support, called #HatNotHate.

This antibullying campaign aims to have knitters and crocheters produce blue hats to be worn by themselves and others on the World Day of Bullying Prevention, which is October 1. (Non-crafty folks are asked to wear blue that day). Lion Brand suggests making a hat for yourself, making others to donate to a school and explain what they mean, and spreading the word to others in person and on social media.

They’ve also collected 22 knit and crochet hat patterns worked in blue yarn, and are donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of blue yarn from their website to the cause. For knitters I love the Pike Street Hat, and the Nevins Street Hat is a sweetly slouchy crochet project.

This sounds like a great project for yarn crafters to get involved in to help raise awareness of an important issue for our kids.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn.]

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Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

[Photo: Olive Knits.]

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