Do you love yarn? Yes? Then you’ll love #YarnBuzz, our twice-a-month newsletter dedicated to stories from around the yarniverse. See below for a taste of what you’d get delivered to your inbox. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Viral Fame and A Book Deal photo by Basma Amer Remember the 11-year-old crochet prodigy who runs his crochet business in…
Did you tune in to watch the 2019 Oscars? If you did, you may have seen noticed some shades from Lion Brand’s 2019 Colors of the Year! Among the beautiful suits and gowns were no fewer than nine of our selected colors! See how they were worn below. Prism Raindrop Anthurium Millenial Pomegranate Wheat Kombucha…
Many of you may ask why a yarn company would introduce a palette for a given year and they arrive at these choices. Colors play an integral role in our daily lives, it effects our moods from the brand of toilet paper we buy to the clothes we wear, and especially the yarn we choose…
If you’re always interested in the latest news when it comes to crafting trends, then chances are you already subscribe to our weekly Yarnbuzz. But in case you don’t, we’re rounding up all the November highlights for you to peruse here. And if you do love celebrity knitwear moments, amazing stories of community crafting, and…
As we gear up for our holiday crafting, the options can seem overwhelming! One of the best ways to find that perfect idea is to tap into what’s on trend. So, we’ve gathered all the hottest November trends and put them together in one list! For all the latest themes, color palettes, and even celebrity…
Have you heard about Giving Tuesday? Every year, on the Tuesday just after Thanksgiving, we kick of the holiday spirit of gratitude by celebrating #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to offset ‘spending holidays’ like Black Friday and Cyber Monday by giving instead. If you’re thinking about holiday or end-of-the-year donations, then this is the…
I’m a huge fan of costuming, as you can see in my various yarncrafting costume posts (including designing an octopus headpiece, turtle shell, arctic fox, and light-up wings). And so, I was very excited for the opportunity to attend New York Comic Con for the first time earlier this month. Comic Con is a pop…
As we begin to feel a winter chill in the air, we turn our crafting imagination to a neutral with a warm undertone. Our November Color of the Year is the beloved hue of fashion and home decor blogs alike, which we call Wolf. Grey is certainly the new black, and this particular shade is warm…
A couple of weekends ago, I attended the NY Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck NY. To be honest, I had never heard of this annual event and only did so because I recently joined Lion Brand Yarn as a business development executive and one of the owner’s mentioned it to me. I figured it…
Chances are, you may have heard of National Novel Writing Month. Adorably shortened to ‘NaNoWriMo’, this annual write-a-thon sends aspiring writers into a flurry every November. But for those who get creative with needles & hooks, there’s a much more low-key movement to join: NaKniSweMo. National Knit a Sweater Month is the chance to join…
Since the beginning of our relationship with Vanna White, giving has been a part of the vision. Lion Brand Yarn and Vanna White made a commitment to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: a portion of all the proceeds of Vanna’s signature yarn, Vanna’s Choice, would be donated to their work. But when we embarked on…
I’ve had a spell of time–an entire summer, really–where the Ugly really got to me. That’s not quite right. It wasn’t one Ugly, it was all the Uglies. A torrent of Uglies. A cascade of Uglies. When the Uglies rally, they form a tight circle around me and lock arms so I can’t get out….
