Eating, Playing, Knitting and Crocheting at the Lion Brand Company Barbecue

Every summer Lion Brand invites all the associates to a barbecue.  There’s a lavish spread of food from barbecued steaks and other grilled favorites to a delicious array of salads and yummy desserts.  We also let our competitive stripes show with sports contests (do water balloon fights count?) a scavenger hunt, and guessing games.  You’ll…

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Why Dye Lots Are Important For Crafting

This column by Barbara Breiter, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting & Crocheting, originally appeared in The Weekly Stitch newsletter. What is a dye lot? Almost all yarn has a dye lot. Yarn is dyed in batches. When a batch is dyed, the dye lot number is assigned; you’ll find this number on…

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5 Women Share Personal Stories of The Healing Power of Crochet

Blogger and author Kathryn Vercillo is an expert in the area of using crafting to heal, having researched the topic extensively for her book Crochet Saved My Life. This is part 3 in her 6-part series for us on the topic of yarncraft health. Read her previous blog posts on the Lion Brand Notebook here. We recently…

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