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Designer Christine Marie Chen

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Designer Christine Marie Chen was the guest on The Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird today. MBwithChristineMarieChenChristine was a guest at Marly Bird’s Designer Dinner and responded to an invitation to all the lovely attendees to share what’s new with them on the show.

Christine is a mostly self-taught knitter; she started with crochet as a child specifically granny squares. As an adult after her son was born, she went to a local library for a free class, to learn knit & purl to work up a scarf. She continued to use the library’s resources to learn more about knitting through books. Eventually she wandered into a Local Yarn Store who was recently without a teacher and offered to help.

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Free Crochet Shawl: No Stopping Me Now

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This free crochet shawl pattern is one that I designed as a free pattern giveaway at the Marly Bird Meet and Greet while attending the Knit and Crochet Show, 2015. I wanted to use a yarn that I love working with in two color-ways that I just KNEW would look great together. After playing around with several stitch patterns I finally decided to use a pattern that I absolutely love. Lo and behold, you can now see the ‘No Stopping Me Now’ Shawl!  [Read more…]

How to Crochet: Blushing Shells Cowl

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Learn to Crochet the Blushing Shells Cowl, a FREE PATTERN! Free Tutorial by MarlyBird.com

Blushing Shells Cowl by Diane Moyer is just one of the many wonderful free patterns over at RedHeart.com. This cowl is made with their brand new yarn called Infinity and I just LOVE IT!

This video sponsored by Red Heart but all the views are my own. So when I tell you that I seriously loved working with this yarn I am not kidding you. I enjoyed working on the step-outs for this video more than I should 🙂 Honestly, I can’t wait to wear my sample of this cowl because I know people will be complimenting me on it!

Now, you too can make this fun and fast cowl. With the free crochet pattern and the free video tutorial taught by me, Marly Bird you will have nothing but success.

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Hunter Hammersen, author of CURLS

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Hunter Hammersen, author of CURLS, visited us in HD today on the Yarn Thing Podcast with Marly Bird. Everybody sounded wonderful!

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Hunter says she has some guilt about having to give knitting more than one try before she was hooked. First try in colllege, nope, a couple of years later, no again, again in 2007 with a pair of socks began the dawn of understanding.

She almost immediately began tweaking her work, then after being requested to write the patterns down, she did. In 2009, Hunter began posting patterns online in Ravelry, she says she posted about 14 patterns, knitting till it hurt. Her first book, out in 2011, the next year her first self-published books, CURLS is her seventh self published and another will be out this fall, with a sequel to CURLS out next summer. SO VERY EXCITING for fans of her beautiful designs.

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Mystery Knit Lit Author Betty Hechtman

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Mystery Knit Lit Author Betty Hechtman shared her love of crochet and writing with Marly Bird on the Yarn Thing Podcast. She says she likes the genre Cozy Mysteries (more about people and less about gore – there are dead bodies but everybody has a good time!) better than Mystery Knit Lit, and I do too.Betty Hechtman profile pic

Betty says as a kid she fell in love with Granny Squares and wanted to learn to make them, finally found a kit in FAO Schwartz ‘Learn to Make Granny Squares’. Finishing the second one was her Golden Moment of Crochet. Learning to knit, she went into a yarn store with a friend and bought very LARGE sized needles, knitting four strands together. She prefers crochet… perhaps that’s reflected in her writing, as her crochet mysteries outnumber the other series. [Read more…]