Designer Spotlight: Lily Chin’s Versatile Styles and Skills

Something I love about working in the yarn industry is all of the creative people you meet. Working with designers, artists, and writers constantly inspires me. One of my favorite people in the industry is extremely prolific designer Lily Chin. Look her up on Amazon.com or Ravelry and you’ll find dozens of books and individual…

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Learn Skills Online with Craftsy & Lion Brand!

Do you love the tutorials and how-tos here on the Lion Brand Notebook? If so, you’ll be excited to hear that we’re partnering with Craftsy–the online education experts–to bring you knit & crochet classes the Lion Brand way! Look out for more info later this year! Here’s a sneak peek at one of the classes…

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Get Inspired by Our Under-the-Sea Window (Plus 9 Patterns for DIY Sea Creatures)

At the Lion Brand Yarn Studio, our store and education center in NYC, we’re proud to showcase amazing window displays each month. This summer, our window features a fantasy ocean scene, complete with a knitting octopus, sea stars, coral, jellyfish and even a mermaid. To see more about how our artists created this one-of-a-kind scene,…

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