This post contains affiliate links. Today, I’m happy to interview Linda Pietz, a knitting teacher who has come up with a really interesting and unique project for her students. Those of us who teach ongoing crochet and knitting classes are always looking for something to keep the group enganged, and Linda recently responded with a presidential … Read more
As we move towards the fall in the U.S., more and more communities have been organizing yarn crawls, where shoppers can go from one local yarn shop to another on a designated series of days for a fun, yarny adventure. If you’ve been to a yarn crawl before, you may wonder who was working behind … Read more
This month seemed to go by in a blur with all that was happening at work and home, so I honestly have no idea how I did with stash this month! Let’s see… My accomplishments I made a Bruges lace scarf with a skein of super cool stash yarn. I made a bathroom rug with … Read more
I’ve somehow made it through two marathon weeks at work (10-12 hour days, working on the weekends, etc.), but crochet and knitting (and blog reading) have been on the back burner. Yesterday, I opened my Google Reader to find over 1,000 unread posts (!) and while I did get around to reading almost every YOP … Read more
I have a hard time saying goodbye to summer. Winters in the Northeast can be brutal, and, to me, the end of summer is the first part of the long haul through the shortened days and cold weather. For the past few weeks, I’ve been passing a display of sunflowers at a local market. Sunflowers … Read more