I spent the last week at TNNA. It’s The National Needle Arts Conference for the trade–yarn manufacturers, publishers, designers. It was a great time! Most of all because I got to meet some friends who I’d previously only known via
Crochet Sighting: Chuculeta Con Raton
Since I don’t read Spanish and Google’s translator wasn’t much help, I’m only guessing this site is from Chile… There’s some amazing little objects here… I found the site wandering through a japanese amigurumi site which I’ll post about soon.
Navajo-Churro Wool
The new issue of Better Homes and Garden’s Knit It! (basically a 112-page ad for Lion Brand yarns) does have a couple of pieces that aren’t about Lion. One that caught my eye is an article about a breed of
Crochet Sighting: Apple.com
Apple computer makes some of the hip-est ads around and even they know how cool crochet can be. I’ll be posting again soon with articles about TNNA–(The Needle Arts Association Conference) and recent classes I’ve taken on intarsia, knitting with
Meet Amanda…
IMG_0838.JPG Originally uploaded by plainsight. I got a mannaquin for Christmas–yeah! We finally got it put together last night. My daughter Selma wanted to name it Barbie, but I decided to call her Amanda. Amanda’s wearing the first modular crochet
Who Knew? A lego-built knitting robot
Apparently there’s a group of, yes, LEGO enthusiasts out there and they have message boards and web sites where they build things–structures, machines, etc. and share pictures, video… And… there’s a guy named Tom Johnson who has bult a mechanized
Modular and Top-Down Crochet: great garments without (much) sewing…
Crochet Fantasy came in the mail yesterday. I hold my breath whenever a crochet magazine arrives because I’m never too optimistic about what I’ll find inside. I still wish someone would take the time and money to add the production
Magazine Review: Selvedge
It was hard to resist the beautiful new magazine I saw on my last trip to Barnes and Noble. Selvedge caught my eye as much for it’s georgeous trade-paper back style binding as it’s high-end art photography and high price
Ear Warmers Revisited…
Since the time of year is right, and I’ve been getting quite a bit of interest in these, I thought I’d re-post the picture and link: here’s what I wrote back in October: In other news, I have a new
Cleveland Keeps it’s Trees Cozy
tree sweater Originally uploaded by Dabbler. Carol Hummel is a sculptor who uses yarn as her medium and trees, at least this time, as her canvas. She’s covered this tree in a synthetic yarn designed to last the 2-years the