Enter the Lion Brand Essay Contest and Tell Us Who Empowers You!

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…

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How to Determine if there is a Mistake in the Pattern, Part 1

This column by Barbara Breiter, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting & Crocheting, originally appeared in The Weekly Stitch newsletter.  You’ve completed a row and something isn’t right. You have 2 sts left. Or you’ve completed the row but the pattern still has instructions for the row you haven’t worked. You try it again and there’s…

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Lost in Space

Writer, illustrator, and knitter Franklin Habit joins us for his monthly column featuring humor and insights into a yarncrafter’s life. I figure this as good a time as any to begin this essay, as my knitting is temporarily on hold. The pattern says to work in stockinette until the piece measures six inches from the…

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