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Rae Blackledge author of 25 Stylish Knitted Slippers

Rae Blackledge, Author of 25 Stylish Knitted Slippers was the guest on this morning’s Yarn Thing with Marly Bird episode. You may know Rae Blackledge for the work she has done for Willow Yarns. Really, that has been immense, if you peek at her designs listed in Ravelry many of the…

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SPECIAL Deborah Newton

SPECIAL Deborah Newton episode is the way we choose to close out the 2015 year of the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Deborah called us from Providence, Rhode Island, to make our Wednesday episode special. This is the first time she’s been our guest. She said she knitted garter-stitch…

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Sally Holt of Knit Companion

Sally Holt of knitCompanion and the create2thrive website was our guest today, to share how cool the knitCompanion app is with us at the Yarn Thing with Marly Bird podcast. We recently learned of many things that begin with the podcast, and certainly a friendship with Marly and Sally would…

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Author and Hostess of Craftlit Heather Ordover

Author and Hostess of Craftlit, Heather Ordover was our guest on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird today. This was an awesome way to cap out a busy week and we are grateful that Heather’s schedule was flexible enough to join us and our listeners, too, as FRIDAYS are…

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Hunter Hammersen and her new book

Hunter Hammersen and her new book, Fine Things for Plain Occasions, was our topic on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Hunter began her patterns individually in 2009 and wondered if creating collections into books wouldn’t be just as fun. As a self-published, self proclaimed ‘control freak’ she ventured…

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Social Medusa interviews Marly Bird

Social Medusa interviews Marly Bird today, which makes for a very unique episode, and because of that, the show notes may be a little bit unique also! This is Tammy, I want to say first of all Thank You for stopping by to get caught up! I wanted Marly to receive…

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Creativebug Triangle Shawl

*this post contains affiliate links The Creativebug Triangle Shawl is released today!!! WAHOO! (Learn more about Creativebug here) Can you tell that I am excited? Wait, didn’t you know I filmed a workshop with Creativebug on Crochet Shawls that is AWESOME! Seriously, I am so proud of this workshop. The…

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Three women standing together, smiling, wearing colorful knitted scarves. The woman in the middle holds a multi-colored crochet triangle shawl. They stand against a plain white background. -Marly Bird

Beth Whiteside, Teaching, Editing and Designing in the Fiber Arts

Beth Whiteside, teaching, editing and designing in the fiber arts world, shared her story for the first time on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. Beth says her parents immigrated to the US in the early 50’s and her parents were very self-sustained, she and her mom did a…

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CEO of Creativebug Ursula Morgan

CEO of Creativebug Ursula Morgan was the smiling voice we heard we heard on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird today. Ursula Morgan’s crafting background began in Dublin, Ireland. In school the children are taught to knit, but her household was a crafting one. Her mother knit jumpers (what…

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What is Creativebug

  What is Creativebug? #ad Affiliate Links are used on this page Well, CreativeBug is an award-winning online arts and craft learning site offering unlimited access to take beginner-to-advanced yarn crafting classes in everything from knitting and crochet to weaving and needle felting, as well as hundreds more across other crafting mediums. Additionally,…

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