Corner-to-Corner Blanket in Half Double Crochet
Corner-to-Corner (C2C) blankets are a hot trend right now. I recently posted about my Snowflake C2C Blanket (a FREE pattern on Red Heart Yarn’s website) and today I am sharing with you the basics on how to make a corner-to-corner blanket in half double crochet. If you read the post…
Holiday Snowflake Corner-to-Corner Blanket
When you look around at the current trends in crochet you will see two that are popping up all over. One is the Planned Pooling Argyle obsession and the other is Corner-to-Corner (C2C) Blankets. I had already designed a C2C blanket for Valentine’s Day, my Heart Throb blanket which is a FREE…
Drop Dead Easy Knits with Gale Zucker, Mary Lou Egan and Kirsten Kapur
Drop Dead Easy Knits with Gale Zucker, Mary Lou Egan and Kirsten Kapur made for lots of fun on today’s Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird, like we can have at knit night, exploring great knits together. The three ladies took turns with sharing their background. Mary Lou Egan began…
Amy Herzog says You Can Knit That
Amy Herzog says You Can Knit That, and goes to prove it with a new book by that name, sharing it with us today on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Amy Herzog says she can’t remember a time she didn’t knit, it may have been in Kindergarten or…
Shannon Dunbabin shares 60 Quick Knits for Little Kids
Shannon Dunbabin shares 60 Quick Knits for Little Kids, a brand new book published by Sixth & Spring books with all projects featuring Cascade Yarns on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Shannon Dunbabin met the son, Rob, of the founders of Cascade Yarn, when they were at Cornell…
Knitting Short Rows by Jennifer Dassau
Knitting Short Rows by Jennifer Dassau is the book we learned about on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird, and we took up the challenge of a different technique with joy. Jennifer began her knitting experience about twelve years ago when she was at home with her kids, with…
Be So Brave with Kristin Omdahl
Be So Brave with Kristin Omdahl is more than this morning’s inspiration, it’s NEW YARN and Kristin shares it with us on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Kristin has been a guest so often we may not really need to hear how she started crocheting and knitting, so…
Amimono Kimono Free Crochet Pattern
Get the Amimono Kimono Free Crochet Pattern by Marly Bird. This was one of my FIRST crochet patterns ever published and it is still a favorite. In this free crochet sweater cardigan pattern you will find both the written instruction and charts to help you with the simple shaping of…
Marly Bird Crochet-along Section 4
The Marly Bird Poncho Crochet-along is sponsored by Red Heart. That’s right, it’s that time of year for a crochet-along and boy do I have a good one for you. Welcome to Section 4 for the Marly Bird Popular Poncho Crochet-along. (Get Section 1 here, Section 2 here, Section 3 here)…
Nicky Epstein Celebrates 30 Books
Nicky Epstein Celebrates 30 Books with the audience of the Yarn Thing podcast hosted by Marly Bird. It’s possibly the fourth visit Nicky has made to Yarn Thing, we have proof of three! And THREE seems to be the magic number… Nicky says she was taught to knit when she…
