Meet Our New Creative Director

I’ve been a knitter, a shop girl at my LYS, the editor in chief of Vogue Knitting and Knit. 1 Magazine, and now, as Creative Director of Lion Brand and my motto has always been “Fun to Knit and Fun to Wear.” I didn’t start out in the hand-knitting industry. I studied writing and film at Oberlin and after college I worked as an…

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6 Easy Halloween Costume Patterns For Kids!

You’ve bought bags of candy to hand out to the all the trick or treaters, the decorations are all hung up ready to scare, and you’ve even created a Halloween music playlist. But what about the costumes for the kids? Here are some costumes that can easily be put together with some hooks, needles, and…

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Blue Sweater Blues

Writer, illustrator, and knitter Franklin Habit joins us for his monthly column featuring humor and insights into a yarncrafter’s life. I got a message from a reader who inquired after the health and well-being of the Man’s Roughneck Sweater I’m making from a pattern in Lion Brand’s 1916 Lion Manual of Worsted Work. It was the…

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