What’s Your Message To The Universe?

At the World Maker Faire in New York City last week,  fiber artist, Robyn Love, created a piece of installation art that was made of hundreds of hand knit and crochet squares of Hometown USA yarn.  The squares were sewn together to create flame-like extensions for the rocket ship (still standing from the 1964 World’s…

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Pearl’s Cardigan Crochet-Along, Part 2: Swatch and Gauge

Hopefully you have chosen your color and now we need to determine what size to make and how much yarn to order. As I mentioned last week, I chose Coffee. I ordered 10 balls to make size large. There has been some discrepancy in the pattern notes about the size worn by the model in…

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Crochet on the Runway

As you may know, earlier this month, our hometown played host to New York Fashion Week, with presentations from dozens of top American designers. Last week, we featured an article from The Wall Street Journal Magazine highlighting how yarncrafts are making a return to the world of home design–and on the runways, it was great…

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