Lion Brand Notebook

According to knitting twitter, Knives Out is a new romantic comedy about Chris Evans and his cable knit sweater. Knives Out hit theaters November 27th and one thing became clear almost immediatel...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/knives-out-cable-knits-in/

I blame it on Beatrix Potter. Specifically, I blame the library copy of “The Tailor of Gloucester” that fell into my pudgy hands when I was five years old. That book, so far as my infantine t...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/knitsy-bitsy/

My first sock was the product of peer pressure. Everyone else was knitting socks; they felt that I, too, should be knitting socks. By way of encouragement, they began to give me skeins and balls ...

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My first visit to a yarn shop was discouraging, but not so discouraging as to keep me from knitting. I had no knitting teacher, and after commencement scattered our class to the four winds, I no ...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/the-big-snag/

We heard a picture is worth a thousand words, but we’re only asking for a few! A few words, that is. Win A $100 Gift Certificate to LionBrand.com! Franklin Habit has drawn a cartoon for us, but...

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(In which I continue the reminiscences that began here.) At nineteen years old, I stood at the door of a yarn shop for the first time. I was alone. I had put on my best hat and coat and my good s...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/my-first-time-the-yarn-shop%EF%BB%BF/

I was preparing for an upcoming teaching engagement when a file (an actual paper file–how quaint) hit the floor and the contents flew across the workroom. Most of them were what should have bee...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/my-first-time-the-lesson/

It happens every year. The Thanksgiving turkey isn’t yet cold on my plate, the parade hasn’t even passed by, and here come the questions from friends-and-relations of those who knit and croch...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/ten-perfect-needlework-notions-the-gift-givers-guide/

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 ...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/yarnbuzz-november-highlights/

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 U...

https://blog.lionbrand.com/sheep-to-shawl/