The Marly Bird Garter Stitch Shawl Knit-along Section 4 is sponsored by Red Heart.
This is the very first KAL I’ve hosted that is based on my own pattern and includes a full set of HD videos of me demonstrating how to do each step of the shawl! Click HERE for Section 1, Click HERE for Section 2, Click HERE for Section 3; you will find the full instructions for SECTION 4 below.
Once the KAL is complete the full pattern will be available at MarlyBird.com.
Meet Twinkie Chan 
was the point of today’s episode of the Yarn Thing Podcast with Marly Bird. And if you said ‘pretty please with sprikles on top’ that’s exactly what you got.
Twinkie learned to crochet as a child about ten years old, her best friend’s grandmother taught them the basic stitches, and much of the rest of her skills came from practicing the free patterns on the ball bands, researching books, pictures. She loves to give handmade gifts, so she had lots of practice. She moved to San Francisco, which is not viewed as a cold climate but she felt chilled and wanted scarves she couldn’t find. Once she accumulated enough, she put the extras online in her etsy shop. [Read more…]
Refined Knits by Jennifer Wood was our focus today on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird.
This was the first time on the podcast for Jennifer so we all got to know her together. Originally from Texas, settled in Tennessee as a young adult. It was when her daughter was in middle school and was assigned to read the Witch of Blackbird Pond that she ventured into yarn. Her daughter was attracted by the young women in the story knitting and the copy she had included knitting patterns. She and Jennifer searched more information and learned to knit together, Jennifer pursuing it even further… [Read more…]
The Marly Bird Garter Stitch Shawl Knit-along Section 3 is sponsored by Red Heart.
This is the very first KAL I’ve hosted that is based on my own pattern and includes a full set of HD videos of me demonstrating how to do each step of the shawl! Click HERE for Section 1, Click HERE for Section 2; you will find the full instructions for SECTION 3 below.
Once the KAL is complete the full pattern will be available at MarlyBird.com.
Amy Singer Makes Her First Visit to Yarn Thing with Marly Bird was the EVENT of the Day!
Amy says she learned to knit when little and did some knitting in her teens. In college, she wanted to knit something for a particular guy, but since they weren’t dating and she didn’t want to be OBVIOUS, she made mittens for everyone in her group. She knit as a newlywed and for a quilting group, she knit hats for everyone in the group. This was about 1997, in the year before, she was discovering internet. She was working in Advertising, as a proof-reader, premiums coordinator, learning to create advertising MacIntosh. She met Jane Siberry and became her web-master. [Read more…]
Knit My Skirt by Candace Eisner Strick made our HAPPY THURSDAY because Candace returned LIVE to the Yarn Thing Podcast with Marly Bird. This isn’t the first time Candace visited, but we’ve loved her for a very long time. We’re very excited about her new book Knit My Skirt, published by the Yarn Thing Podcast Sponsors XRX Inc, publishers of Knitters Magazine, host of Stitches Events.
Candace gave us a little bit of her background, how she met her husband of 41 years and acquired the name ‘Strick’ which in German means ‘to knit’ (PERFECT for a knitwear designer). Knitting for her began when her mother taught her at age 3, her father bought her a skein of Red Heart Yarns, the rainbow colorway. The first piece came out shaped like a triangle because of all the stitches she dropped. Knitting was on the back burner as she grew to play cello and then, as an adult, had a family and felt she had no time to knit. She received a Stitches brochure for the event happening at that time (1990-something) in Cherry Hill and thought this sounded like her people. Several books later, she is the teacher-designer-author we’ve come to know.