Want to do something nice with us? Then join us in giving back! Today only, in honor of Giving Tuesday, we are donating 20% of all yarn sales to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We’ve already donated $1.7 million to St. Jude’s through our Vanna White collection, and today it’s your opportunity to help us…

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and you may be feeling it’s time to do something generous. How about making some basic hats to donate? They’re a great project, because they’re useful — you can make preemie hats for a NICU, chemo caps for a hospital, or warm hats for the homeless. Since they don’t take too…

Welcome to Community Spotlight, where we’ll be showing you highlights from our Community Gallery. To be featured in the gallery, simply post a picture of your Lion Brand creations to Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #lionbrandyarn. We’ll be choosing some of our favorites to post to the blog. Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick® is an…

Giving back and being a “do-gooder” – an interview with Cassie May of Little Red Window Happy Thanksgiving, fiber fans! This giving season, we are very thankful to the untold thousands (millions?) of charity crafters across the country making comforting items for those in need. We’re especially thankful that Yarn Heroes has helped us find…

Charity Crocheting with Tamara Kelly of Moogly Blog! We hope you have been having even a fraction of the fun that WE have been having with Yarn Heroes, Lion Brand’s campaign to inspire knitters, crocheters, and crafters of all kinds to make comforting items for charity. The X-Men have Wolverine, and we have MOOGLY, who should…

Retired engineer Ed Moseley, 86, learned to make hats for preemies, and as a result has now donated hundreds of them to a local neonatal intensive care unit, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Moseley lives in an assisted living facility in Acworth, GA, near Atlanta. The facility asked its residents to take part in an…

Yarn Heroes Chapter 2, Charity Crafting with All About Ami We hope you have enjoyed the first two posts of our Yarn Heroes, a series all about celebrating Charity Crafting! We were extremely fortunate to collaborate with fifteen of the most creative, generous and spirited yarn bloggers and designers to create new free patterns, host giveaways for…

Yarn Heroes, Chapter 1: Mama In A Stitch Greetings fiber fanatics, crafters of all kinds and stitchers of all stripes! We want to help every crafter, from beginners to seasoned experts, unleash their inner Yarn Hero! This fall, we’ve assembled a super group of 15 of your favorite yarn bloggers and designers to inspire you to pick up…

This giving season, Lion Brand is calling on knitters, crocheters and yarn crafters of all kinds to unleash their inner Yarn Hero and craft for charity! We want every fiber fanatic to know that they can help create a more giving world, one stitch at a time. We have assembled a super group of 15…

Welcome to Community Spotlight, where we’ll be showing you highlights from our Community Gallery. To be featured in the gallery, simply post a picture of your Lion Brand creations to Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #lionbrandyarn. We’ll be choosing some of our favorites to post to the blog. This week we are featuring hats.…