Kitchen-Safe Dyeing, Part 2: Using Skins of Yellow Onions

Sister and brother duo, Elizabeth and Robby Miracle, first created this dyeing series for a Lion Brand newsletter several years ago. Although that newsletter is no longer around, we loved the idea of making kitchen-safe dyes so much, that we’ve updated it and reprinted the series here.  Creating your own dyes can be a fun…

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Meeting a Living Legend of the Knitting Industry

With Janet (pictured left) and the other ladies from the Guild As a fourth generation member of a family-owned business, I’ve always been fascinated with the “living legends” of the yarn industry since, like me, many of them have been involved in the business for 30 or 40 years. At the Knit and Crochet show…

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Cracking the (Pattern) Code, Part 8: Understanding Instructions

Technical editor and yarncrafting expert Kj Hay joins us for a series on understanding the different elements of patterns. Click here to read her earlier blog posts. Obviously the most important information in crochet and knit patterns are the instructions. They are also the most challenging to decrypt. Instructions consist of two basic types, 1) row/round instructions, and 2)…

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