Knitting Expert Sally Melville
Knitting Expert Sally Melville started knitting in Brownies and without any advanced help, started designing at 10 or 11 she guesses. She focused on Fashion Knitting and found her niche, as most knitting was for Art or Craft. She was teaching at a University when her teen-age daughter asked her…
Knitting World Exclusive Interview Kristin Omdahl’s NEW Big Adventure
Knitting World Exclusive Interview Kristin Omdahl‘s New Big Adventure featured lots of REVEALS of what’s new and hot with Kristin who called from her home in Florida! Let’s start with Congratulations to Kristin for being in TEN years in the the fiber business! And what a long way she has…
Cute Crochet World author and Expert Suzann Thompson
Cute Crochet World author and Expert Suzann Thompson Suzann Thompson was taught to knit in elementary school by her mother, who also tried to teach her to crochet, but at that time it didn’t take. In seventh grade, she found a pattern in a magazine for a crochet bag which…
Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton, Knitting Expert, Author, Teacher and Yarn Brand Owner
Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton, Knitting Expert, Author, Teacher and Yarn Brand Owner has been in the fiber industry for decades but is surprisingly young for the amount of experience she shares with us! She started very young, at 24 began as a designer, for a shop in NYC that was avant…
Swing Knitting with Expert Brigitte Elliott
Swing Knitting with Expert Brigitte Elliott was our topic today and we love that she shared this with us as well as so many other things! Swing Knitting was actually developed by someone else and Brigitte gives credit to Gabrielle Kluge https://www.strickrausch.de/ (Intoxicated Knitting) and was trademarked by Heidrun Liegmann-Halama https://swing-knitting.com. There…
6/17 Knitting Expert Donna Druchunas
Donna Druchunas has recently self-published Stories in Stitches 3, This and the first two volumes can be purchased for the knitter who loves historical crafting. She will be doing a knitting cruise! This one goes to the Baltic Sea. >>>CLICK HERE<<< There is also an ARMCHAIR CRUISE which means you…
Knitting Expert and Author, Julie Turjoman
Knitting Expert and Author, Julie Turjoman Julie Turjoman’s designs have appeared in Interweave Knits and Knitty. Check out this link in Ravelry for her designs. She compiled Brave New Knits (link to book in Amazon) and has self published a NEW BOOK: Knits that Breathe. She saw a need for those that…
June 10th, Guest Jacqueline Sava of SOAK Wash
6/10 ~ Guest Jacqueline Sava of Soak on Yarn Thing Podcast with Marly Bird. Jacqueline Sava was designing knitwear and was often asked how to take care of them. About 8 years ago, they began to seek the best ways to take care of our wool knits… and SOAK was…
6/5 ~ HEIDI BEARS, Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird
6/5 ~ HEIDI BEARS, on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird It’s pretty exciting getting to talk to someone from all the way around the world. Heidi Bears called in from South Africa, proving that guests and listeners could be from anywhere in the world! Heidi’s designs have been…
Joi Mahon, aka DESIGNER JOI
Joi Mahon, aka Designer Joi, our Guest on the Yarn Thing with Marly Bird, June 3rd. 2014 Unlike our typical guests, Joi Mahon is not a knitter, crocheter, dyer or other yarn type person, we are going to adopt her into the fiber lovers neighborhood. She crochets so she gets…
