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CEO of Creativebug Ursula Morgan

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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 Ursula Morganschool the children are taught to knit, but her household was a crafting one. Her mother knit jumpers (what they call pullovers) that she wore to school. Her mother’s family was very busy, sewing costumes for the big theater productions locally. She dreamed of being a textile designer but was told she couldn’t draw at about an age 13. She listened to that teacher and left that dream behind until about 17. She was encouraged to go back to a career counselor who said when she was tested earlier, that she had scored very high in art, so she crammed and applied to art colleges and got in. Ursula now believes  that if anyone believes they are creative and wants to pursue it, they should, the are only limited by what they believe they can or cannot do. [Read more…]

What is Creativebug

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What is Creativebug?

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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, it now provides its users with lifetime access to the classes that mean the most to them, whether they maintain an ongoing subscription or not. It’s simple. For every month someone subscribes, they receive a token to save one class of their choice to their personal library. These classes never expire, even if the user cancels their subscription.

For less than $5 per month you can now hone your skills while learning from and being inspired by top crochet and knitwear designers – like Marly Bird, Norah Gaughan and Wendy Bernard – and build their your special collection of classes with lifetime access.

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“We are artists supporting artists,” said Creativebug.com CEO Ursula Morgan. “It’s important to not only inspire creativity and learning, but to also support our customers’ artistic journey for the long-haul. Giving them the opportunity to keep a personal library of their favorite classes to look back on for help or inspiration as they grow in their craft.”

A monthly subscription to Creativebug.com costs $4.95. In addition to unlimited access to over 500 classes and the option to choose one class per month for lifetime access, Creativebug.com also provides:

  • Award-winning high-quality video workshops that provide an intimate in-person-like experience for the student
  • Instruction from first-class designers and artists featured in Martha Stewart Living, O’ The Oprah Magazine, Vogue and more
  • A free mobile app for learning on-the-go – no internet connection required
  • Beginner-to-advanced classes across a variety of mediums from knitting, crochet, sewing and quilting to paper crafts, food cra
    fts, jewelry making, flower arranging sketching, watercolor, bath & body and more
  • A vast array of inspiring projects from fashion and home décor to gifts, holiday decorating and more
  • A Work-Along Discussion Board where users can interact with each other by making comments, “liking,” and posting photos and updates for their class projects

A 14-day free trial with unlimited access to over 500 video classes and lifetime access to one free class (no commitment necessary to keep free class)

To sign up for a free trial, check out free classes and techniques or learn more about Creativebug.com and its offerings please visit www.creativebug.com.

Find out more about Marly’s Creativebug Classes HERE

Marly’s newest class with Creativebug is a Crochet Shawl Workshop that includes lessons on how to crochet 3 uniquely different shawls. Get the class today and have a shawl completed by the end of the weekend!

Stitch Sampler Baby Blanket Border

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You’ve made 9 squares, blocked them, seamed them and now you are ready for Stitch Sampler Baby Blanket Border! Okay, LET’S DO THIS! Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blanket CAL Sponsored by Red Heart Yarns and hosted by Marly Bird.

You can click here for the first square, here for the second square, here for the third square, here for the fourth square, here for the fifth square, here for the sixth square, here for the seventh square, here for the eighth square, here for the ninth square, here for the seaming video.

Where is the Full Pattern?

During the Crochet-along (CAL) you will be able to get the written and chart instructions as well as the HD Video tutorial for the next step in the Crochet Stitch Sampler Blanket every Tuesday and Thursday. The full pattern will not be posted until the end of the CAL.

GET FULL CAL DETAILS HERE

Get a little help from your friends!

Follow along and complete each step with my help as well as the wonderful group of other Marly Bird CAL members in the Facebook Group. In the group you can post pictures, ask questions and get general crochet support.

I’m ready! Let’s get this party started!

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Teacher, Designer and Book Author Margaret Hubert

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Teacher Designer and Book Author Margaret Hubert returned to the Yarn Thing podcast, and we couldn’t be happier with a returning guest to have HER.

MargaretHubertPicMargaret tell us she’s been very busy this year, she’s written FOUR books. Margaret says she had a couple of them about Granny Squares, which was a project she put on the shelf because when she originally offered them, the publishers AT THAT TIME thought Granny Squares were passe.

She said she learned to knit first and later when she picked up crochet her mother wasn’t interested. But when Margaret began creating Granny Squares, [Read more…]

Romi Hill, Teacher, Designer and Creator of Beautiful

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Romi Hill, teacher, designer and creator of beautiful, was our guest today on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird, we think for our 301st episode at Blogtalk, it doesn’t get more special.Romi HIll

Romi called in from her home in the Sierra Mountains. We could hear her love of the area as she described the forest, and the high desert elevations. We can imagine her gazing out the window at the beauty of her neighborhood, reminices with us about her crafting history. She says she learned to knit at age 9, but had probably learned to crochet much earlier, around 4, and took her a long time to convince her mother to teach her to knit, when the rest of her family were crocheters. It was the feel of the fabric knitting creates that drew her, especially mohair. She knit through high school and college, picking yarn from the sale bins, improvising projects with bits from different patterns. When she was pregnant with her second son, and so sick that there was not much she could do, she became really engrossed in her knitting. At that time, internet was really becoming a helpful tool for finding help and communities for knitters. She attended Stitches West and purchased lace-weight yarn to create a giant shawl. Romi admits it was hard for her to read her knitting, discouraging to because it was hard to imagine the mess in her lap would become anything near as beautiful as the pattern would be. [Read more…]

Candace Melville Ledbetter

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Candace Melville Ledbetter was the guest today on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. If that names sounds to formal, you may recognize that she is Caddy Melville. (Pronounce that like the Cadillac “Caddy”.)4964_Still_0094_retouched

Caddy and her mom, Sally Melville, have told the story many times, that Sally tried to teach Caddy to knit MANY times. It wasn’t until Sally was teaching Caddy’s boyfriend that Caddy realized she could do this, too, as an adult. (He’s still around, Caddy says she taught him again when she was prepping for her new Craftsy Class.) She says because of their history, Sally didn’t POUNCE on teaching Caddy this time, but they took it slow and without expectations. [Read more…]