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CYC member Boye Knitting & Crochet sells so many amazing tools that help you knit, crochet and yarn your way through every kind of project imaginable. While Boye is most known for their knitting needles and crochet hooks, they have many other tools as well.
Enter the Boye Large Comfort Grip Latch Hook. Artist Jackie Lawrence created dozens of latch hook panels for her installation “An Impossible Reality” as part of the Intangible exhibit at Sweet Tooth Hotel. Latch...
Imagine walking into a colorfully immersive environment made entirely of fiber, exploding with vibrancy and texture. As you walk from room to room, new adventures await you in art installations you can’t help but sink your hands, and mind, into.
The Craft Yarn Council is excited to announce a new partnership with Dallas’ premiere experiential art exhibit, Sweet Tooth Hotel, to bring an immersive fiber experience to audiences across the country. The new...
Stress is a regular part of life for many, but now more than ever people need ways to relax and unwind from everything going on in the world. Studies show that yarn crafts provide numerous health benefits, including their ability to help people relax and relieve anxiety.
April is Stress Awareness Month and as always, the Craft Yarn Council is hosting its annual #StitchAwayStress campaign to educate people about the amazing benefits of yarn crafts. The campaign this year is all...
Imagine walking into a colorfully immersive environment made entirely of fiber, exploding with vibrancy and texture. As you walk from room to room, new adventures await you in art installations you can’t help but sink your hands, and mind, into.
The Craft Yarn Council is excited to announce a new partnership with Dallas’ premiere experiential art exhibit, Sweet Tooth Hotel, to bring an immersive fiber experience to audiences across the country. The new...
Imagine walking into a colorfully immersive environment made entirely of fiber, exploding with vibrancy and texture. As you walk from room to room, new adventures await you in art installations you can’t help but sink your hands, and mind, into.
The Craft Yarn Council is excited to announce a new partnership with Dallas’ premiere experiential art exhibit, Sweet Tooth Hotel, to bring an immersive fiber experience to audiences across the country. The new...
By Jeanette Sloan
If you follow me on Instagram where I’m @jeanettesloan, you’ll know I’ve worked as a black knitwear designer for over 20 years. In all that time, I was never aware of many other BIPOC working in knitting so in 2018 I began to question why the world of fibre crafts appeared to be a BIPOC free zone. And I wasn’t alone in noticing this.
Yarn & Money
by Kitty Quitmeyer
Kitty Quitmeyer is passionate about yarn crafting as an art and as a coping mechanism. She knits and crochets in the Panamanian rainforest, where she operates Digital Naturalism Laboratories with her partner, Andrew Quitmeyer. Continue reading for a comic about Kitty's thoughts on the intersection between yarn and money!
Alyssa Ki of Solip DIY works in event management by day and is a weaver and freelance photographer by night. She lives in New Jersey, where she sells her weavings and also does commissions of her wonderfully whimsical work. She has a self-proclaimed "all-consuming" love for beads, yarn and DIY, and loves the outdoors - something you might notice in her work.
Without further ado, we are happy to share with you Solip DIY's Happy Place!
Marisa Morrison Stein of the blog The Neon Tea Party is on a mission to empower people to get in touch with their creativity through colorful, globally-inspired crafts. She hosts in-person workshops, virutal classes and craft parties over a variety of crafts, including pompoms, friendship bracelets, macrame, weaving and so much more. She even sells amazingly colorful kits, yarn and crafting supplies on her website to help you get started on your next craft project.
Without...
Knitting New Masculinities
Written by Estefania Lima
A shy but expressive movement of Brazilian male groups has been meeting to discuss the impact of misogyny on the construction of a toxic masculinity that does not only affect women (the number of feminicides increased 76% in Brazil in the first quarter of 2019, compared with the same period of 2018), but men themselves, who are encouraged to live more aggressively and are lonely.
One of these groups, called “Fio da...
Boye Needle was founded in 1906 when James H. Boye and two businessmen from the sewing machine business joined forces. Boye Needle Company was launched with a patented, revolving cabinet called the “Rotary Case," which housed sewing machine needles, shuttles and bobbins suitable for a variety of home sewing machines. This was a tremendous innovation at the time as consumers had difficulty finding the correct needles and other replacement parts for their sewing machines.
The Rotary...
Hey everyone! Michele Costa from Stitch & Hustle here to get your feet (and garments) wet with an introduction to blocking.
I hope this video and tutorial will help you get on the way to letting your stitches settle and getting the shape and drape you want out of your creations.
You can find more on the Stitch & Hustle Blog here and enter the HUGE giveaway to win all you need to start blocking from Eucalan & Knitter’s Pride.
About Michele
Michele Costa is the...