There are plenty of simple, beautiful ways to personalize your yarn crafting, even if you are a true beginner! Here’s our top five list: Embroidery: Adding personal details like names or initials with embroidery is an easy way to make simple baby blankets or ring-bearer pillows into a priceless family heirlooms! Check out our step-by-step…
When someone you care about is expecting a baby, you’re likely to have the urge to create a one-of-a-kind beautiful gift. As one of the landmark occasions in a family’s life, a time to celebrate the arrival of a new life, what better way to do that than with something made by hand? Babies are…
If you have an iPhone or iPad, you can have access to our entire library of free patterns of over 3,600 free patterns wherever you are. If you are at a retail store, trying to figure out what to make for everyone on your list, just check out the Lion Brand app. Have an Android…
Yarn painting is a fantastic way to craft with yarn without knitting or crocheting. Most famously practiced by the Huichol people of Mexico, yarn painting is a simple way to create beautiful art. All you have to do is adhere the yarn to a background surface. For my yarn art, I printed out Andy Warhol’s…
If you could knit or crochet anything for anyone, what would it be and who would it be for? Would it be someone famous or someone close? Would it be something simple or something intricate? Let your mind wander and don’t think about the limits of reality. It’s your wish, so go for it! I…
A site we like called Everyday Health, promotes knitting and crocheting for health reasons alongside some better-known stress reduction techniques. This article talks about the health benefits of the crafts that we love. Here is another article that points to the impact of expressing your creativity on your health and also mentions knitting and crocheting….
This is Vanessa. What is she making, you ask? Find out in this month’s issue of our BRAND NEW monthly e-newsletter, YarnPlay! So just what is it about? YarnPlay is full of irreverent and out-of-the-box ideas. It’s about creative projects for the young and the young at heart. Join the YarnPlayers each month, as we…
Did you know that you can read blog posts only on the topics you are interested in? Some of you wrote that you want to read about crocheting but not knitting (or visa versa.) Maybe you want to look at the history of the “knit-alongs” or look at the off-beat news from the “yarniverse”. To…
In the Lion Brand e-newsletter, The Weekly Stitch, of November 19th, we asked you to join together to help fund public school projects related to knitting, crochet and weaving. We set up a giving group at Donor’s Choose, where teachers who do not have public funding for projects they would like to work on with…
Giving something handmade is special and meaningful, and this season it could even get you a chance to win $100 on LionBrand.com! Make a video of yourself giving a hand-knit or hand-crocheted gift and upload it to your own YouTube account, then place it on our YouTube group. To do this, simply click on “Submit…
This is a guest post from our friend, Travis Meinolf, public textile artist and teacher. Travis’s current project can be seen at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, in San Francisco, CA, from now until January 24th, 2010. If you’re in the area, we hope you’ll stop by, add your own piece to the…
I was in mid-town New York City last weekend and saw a striking crochet art exhibit in the window of the Roger Smith Hotel. There will be a performance on several upcoming evenings that integrate dance in this crochet setting. If you are in New York City it looks like something you won’t want to…
