Knitters and crocheters really do save lives! Earlier this year, WildCare, a wildlife rehabilitation hospital based in San Rafael, California, put out a call for knitted nests for the orphaned baby birds they care for. As of today, WildCare has received 3568 nests from 394 knitters and crocheters from all over the world, even as…

The Lion Brand Outlet in Carlstadt, New Jersey is more than just a place to get great bargains on yarn. We recently hosted the Summer Chemo Cap Project: a charitable knitting and crochet drive for the patients at Steeplechase Cancer Center in Central NJ, part of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Lion Brand supplied the yarn and many…

What we love about Krochet Kids International is that they help women live better lives by giving them the opportunity to earn money through hand crafting. They don’t believe in handouts, they believe in empowerment. Thanks to Krochet Kids, hundreds of women and many more hundreds of children have become educated and have learned they have…

Kohl Crecelius and two of his friends from high school wanted to do something meaningful with their lives and they decided to use their crochet skills to make it happen. When I first heard their idea five years ago — California surfer guy who loves to crochet beanies and wants to use that skill to…

In recognition of American Heart Month, we’ve partnered up with Laura Zander and Sixth & Spring Books to bring you a very special giveaway.  Stitch Red is a book series created to raise awareness around heart disease and preventive heart health in general. A portion of each sale goes towards HeartTruth®, a public awareness program sponsored by…

On Monday, June 10 on her show Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White shared a look at her recent trip to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She visited the facilities in Memphis with Lion Brand President/CEO David Blumenthal and EVP/COO Dean Blumenthal to announce our $1 million dollar donation to this great organization. If you’re reading this…

Tune in this Monday, June 10, to see Lion Brand spokesperson Vanna White talk about working with Lion Brand to create her signature line of yarns, her love of crochet, and our $1 million donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on her show, Wheel of Fortune! Vanna will show some footage of her visit to…

Yesterday, as President of Lion Brand, I had the honor of joining my cousin and EVP of our company, Dean Blumenthal and Vanna White, Lion Brand’s spokesperson, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to present a check representing donations of $1 million. When we first introduced the Vanna lines of yarns and Vanna shared her…

One of the things I liked best about being out on the road with sales was meeting yarncrafters face to face. Now that I spend more time working with the Lion Brand Yarn Outlet here in New Jersey, it’s still a treat for me to talk to knitters and crocheters in person, and to see…

If you’ve been thinking about learning to knit or crochet, now is the perfect time! With the New Year upon us, now is the time to think what you’d like to learn or accomplish in this year. Whether you’d like to learn your first stitch, make your first scarf, or learn a new craft having…