Although I’ve been participating in Surmount the Stash all year and have been fairly good about avoiding new yarn purchases, the siren song of my favorite local yarn shop, Knitty City, began calling to me last night. The start of my yarn craving was receiving an email update about another local yarn shop that is closing … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. It’s been almost 6 weeks since I last participated in Work in Progress Wednesday and Yarn Along. Life got very busy and I was mostly working on secret projects, so there was nothing too exciting to share. I’m happy to be back with a (very) little something and am looking forward … Read more
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
Back in February, I attended the Craft Yarn Council Certified Instructor’s Program in Knitting on-site training. I had an amazing time during the three day training, and met some great knitters! We had to prepare quite a few swatches for the class… Even though I mailed off the proof of my 30 hours of teaching months ago, I … Read more