Have you ever looked at a yarn label, unsure exactly how to visualize what different weights of yarn will look like when worked up? You’re not alone. While many labels offer detailed information about the size of the yarn, it can still be difficult to picture exactly how thick each one will be. We knit…
Welcome to Community Spotlight, where we’ll be showing you highlights from our Customer Gallery. To be featured in the gallery, simply post a picture of your Lion Brand creations to Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #lionbrandyarn. We’ll be choosing some of our favorites to post to the blog. This week we’re featuring tops. There…
Named for President Theodore Roosevelt, the teddy bear has been a childhood staple for more than a century. In the toy’s honor, today is Teddy Bear Day. What better opportunity to knit or crochet a little bear friend for a kid in your life? Or make one for yourself, we won’t tell.
As we announced earlier this week, we’ll be making the Curvy Girl Cabled Cardigan for our Knit-Along! It’s a great piece, really versatile and cute, and I’m excited to be making it alongside you. We’ll start the actual knitting in a couple of weeks, but now it’s time to get all your supplies. Here’s what…
When you’re just starting out with a new craft, it can be daunting to know what supplies you need. You stand in the yarn aisle of your local craft store and everything seems overwhelming. Acrylic? Wool? What the heck does worsted mean? Do I want wooden needles? Plastic? It can seem like a lot to…
Entrelac knitting is a cool way to create textured fabric that looks woven. It seems extremely complicated, and indeed is one of the more advanced techniques to learn, but once you sit down and do it, it actually isn’t that hard. Entrelac can be worked flat or in the round. You are making rows of…
You’ve voted, and the winner has been chosen. For the Curvy Girl Knit-Along, we will be making (drumroll, please) the Curvy Girl Cabled Cardigan. The KAL will officially begin on September 23. We’ll have information on kits later this week, but now is a good time to look over the pattern and familiarize yourself with…
September 6 is Read a Book Day, and to celebrate that, we’ve compiled a list of novels that feature yarn crafts. You may have already heard of books like Friday Night Knitting Club (which was also a movie) or Knit One, Kill Two, but there are a lot of them out there. Whether you read…
We’ve joined forces with CreativeBug, and starting next week, you can join a crochet-along with the amazing Twinkie Chan! Lion Brand users get a month of CreativeBug FREE with the code “LION,” plus you can buy a kit for the class at 15% off. The nine-part series will teach you how to make a whole…
Welcome to Community Spotlight, where we’ll be showing you highlights from our Customer Gallery. To be featured in the gallery, simply post a picture of your Lion Brand creations to Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #lionbrandyarn. We’ll be choosing some of our favorites to post to the blog. Wow — you’ve all embraced the…
The granny square is one of the most ubiquitous, widely-recognized pieces of fibercraft out there. Almost everyone can remember finding one of those colorful, black-trimmed, usually scratchy afghans in their house, or the house of someone they knew. Like much of the history of crochet and knitting, the exact origins of the granny square are…
Illusion knitting is a deceptively simple, really cool looking way to add unique visual interest to your creations. The basic premise is that you alternate rows of garter and stockinette stitch in order to create images that can only be seen at a certain angle. When you look at the piece straight on, it looks…
