Did You Know…? All About Yardage

Looking at yarn requirements for a pattern can be confusing and, especially if you need to substitute yarns, trying to decide how much yarn you will need can be overwhelming. Often a pattern will call for a number of balls of a particular yarn and may or may not include additional information about those balls,…

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Inside BABY BLUEPRINT CROCHET: an Interview with Robyn Chachula

Robyn Chachula is a crochet designer, whose new book, Baby Blueprint Crochet, came out earlier this month. To celebrate, we’re pleased to present an exclusive free pattern from Robyn, available on LionBrand.com–click here to view it! I had the pleasure of interviewing Robyn on the December 7th episode of YarnCraft (our online radio-style show), during…

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A Day with the Grand Prize Winner of the Yarn Imagination Contest

This is a guest blog post by Ben from our NJ offices, who spent the day with Natalie Bayer, the winner of the Lion Brand and Hancock Yarn Imagination Contest. When Natalie Bayer, age 88 and the Grand Prize Winner of the Yarn Imagination Contest visited the Lion Brand Yarn Studio as part of her…

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