Celebrate Make-A-Hat-Day with These Free Patterns!

Celebrate Make-A-Hat-Day with These Free Patterns!

Make -A-Hat-Day has to be one of the most appropriate national days for crafters. Of course, hats are great any day of the year. We love them over here at LB, as is attested by the 1,040 free hat pattern downloads. You could literally work through free Lion Brand hat patterns for 2.85 years if…

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Put a Pom on It: 7 Patterns for the Pom Pom Craze

Put a Pom on It: 7 Patterns for the Pom Pom Craze

Put a Pom on it! One of Fall’s hottest fashion crazes is pom poms. Fun and quick to make, poms are great for using up leftover bits of yarn. They’re also easy embellishments and add a touch of whimsy to projects, as you can see below. Aside from the scarf, any of these projects can…

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7 Patterns to Knit and Crochet in New Basic Yarn

7 Patterns to Knit and Crochet in New Basic Yarn

New Basic 175 yarn comes in a beautiful palette of 24 colors that blend together wonderfully. (See color inspiration on our Pinterest board!) It is a single ply yarn weighing in at a CYC #4, or medium/worsted weight. The spin and fiber create a soft halo around the strand, giving a soft muted feel to…

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