Hello LALers! We are loving all the wonderful Alice Wrist Warmers you are making with your flower loom in the Knifty Knitter Loom-Along! See all the great photos in the slideshow at the end of the post. If you are joining in, don’t forget that to post your photos into the Knifty Knitter Flickr Group. […]
Well Twi-hards, the time is here. That special day in November when you no longer have to dream of powdery white skin and the smell of blood (and teen angst) in the morning. You can live it, man. Well, vicariously through the screen presentation of the much anticipated debut of the Twilight Saga’s New Moon. […]
Berkeley-based Vaska, makers of botanical-based laundry soap, is holding a Get Cozy With Vaska Contest, which sounds like it’s right up our alley. Twelve winners will get $300 in cash and a page in the 2010 Vaska Cozy Calendar, sure to be a collector’s item (or so they claim). The contest ends at midnight Jan. […]
Fall is in the air, and I’m feeling a need to embroider. If you’re like me, you have an enormous pile of yarn left over from other projects. In my case, it sits in my needlework bag and taunts me, daring me to dig into it and make something pretty. So, one early fall afternoon […]
This is the kind of awesome that happens when you bring together two guys over two months with a whole bunch of yarn. The second vid is the equally enticing making-of. [via Jeanne Jo]
More than a dozen New York yarn stores are participating in the first ever NYC Yarn Crawl this weekend in an effort to “encourage exploration of the city’s yarn shops and promote the needle arts.” The NYC Yarn Crawl is a free, self-guided tour for knitters, crocheters and other fiber artists to the city’s premier […]
Too often we’re left with mountains of little balls of sock yarn. Here’s a nice and easy way to use up those leftovers bits. You can use one of two methods: 1. If you have two colors you want to use up, use one color for the cuff, heel flap, and toe. 2. If you […]
