3 New Crochet Kits Using Jeans® Yarn

Our blogger partners have been hard at work creating new crochet kits for you! Three new designs in Jeans® Yarn have just been added to the LBY kits section. Jeans® is a 100% acrylic yarn that is soft to the touch. Like your favorite denim, you might want to live in items made from this…

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Embracing Change: How I Fell In Love With Big Needles

Adapting When chronic overuse of my hands was causing pain while knitting I began working with physical therapist, Victoria Moitoso of Foundry Orthopedics in Providence, Rhode Island. She suggested that I use only very large needles: “The larger the needle, the less stress it will cause.” I found some number seventeens among my knitting notions, and…

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Getting the Point Across

Writer, illustrator, and knitter Franklin Habit joins us for his monthly column featuring humor and insights into a yarncrafter’s life. If you are of a romantic turn of mind (I am) and a history buff (ditto), at some time in your armchair travels back in time you will have encountered an obsolete variety of social…

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