Green Mountain Spinnery
Tuesday on the Yarn Thing podcast: the Green Mountain Spinnery! Today’s guest was Eric from the Green Mountain Spinnery, located in Putney, Vermont. Green Mountain Spinnery was founded in 1981 and several years ago became a worker-owned cooperative when several employees became part owners. The Spinnery was founded as an…
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon joined Marly on the podcast to share what it has been like writing the 8 books in the Outlander series (7 published and one to come in March 2014), along with the excitement regarding the tv series based on the first book that Starz is producing and is…
Hunter Hammersen
On Tuesday’s podcast: Hunter Hammersen!! Hunter comes to the podcast today to enlighten us all about her adventures in the world of self publishing and what is about to his the shelves! Hunter started out going the “traditional” route of publishing, and teamed up with a publishing house and had…
Clara Parkes – The Yarn Whisperer
Thursday’s Podcast Guest: Clara Parkes! Clara came on the show to promote her new super fun book “The Yarn Whisperer“! (Also, she came on to try to get Marly to laugh so hard she’d snort.) From Clara’s website: The book was born from a simple notion: We are what we…
Crochetville – Amy Shelton
Hi Everyone! Thursday’s podcast guest was Amy Shelton, from Crochetville! Amy was one of our most enthusiastic guests ever, and Marly was SO excited to have her on the show! Amy Shelton comes from a family of crocheters. Although she learned the basics of crochet from her third-grade teacher, Amy’s…
Blue Moon Fiber Arts
Today! Blue Moooooooooooon!!!! That’s right, Tina Newton from Blue Moon Fiber Arts! Tina Newton was Marly’s guest today, and oh what a ball these two had today!! Tina told us her story about how she got into the fiber industry, and what aspect is her favorite (spinning) and how she…
Halos Of Hope and Drew Emborsky
On Thursday’s Special Podcast: Drew Emborsky and his amazing challenge for Halos of Hope! Drew has put out the Chemo Cap Challenge, to stuff the box in his Crochet Dude booth at Stitches East in November with as many chemo caps as he can possibly get! Last year, Halos of…
Brett Bara
Brett Bara was Marly’s guess on a special episode of the podcast this week! Brett Bara is the founder of Brooklyn Craft Company and Brooklyn Craft Camp. With a professional background in print publishing, Brett was the founding editor-in-chief of Crochet Today magazine and is the author of several craft books….
Indian Lake Artisans
Indian Lake Artisans owners Pam and Mark joined Marly to talk about their adventure into the yarn industry! Pam and Mark discussed the beginning of their journey into the knitting and crochet industry, and how they wanted to bring some life back into their community, in the Detroit and greater Michigan…
Miriam Felton
This week on The YarnThing Podcast: Miriam Felton Miriam Felton started playing with fiber, yarn and thread as soon as she could hold a needle. In 1999, she began knitting, having been taught the basic stitch(es) by her older sister. Designing knitwear followed soon after. While many of her designs…