Annie’s Raffle – Win a Pattern Kit!
Our friends at Annie’s are launching a new pattern collection, the Signature Design Collection, and are offering one lucky winner a pattern kit. That’s right, you can win not only the pattern but all the yarn you need to make it in your size! Win an Annie’s Pattern Kit
Tuesday Tip – Keeping Track of Cast On
Long tail cast on is a great go to cast on for many of us, but there are a few issue. One of them is estimating yarn, another is that annoying untwisting of the yarn, and the last is . . . Keeping Track of Cast on.
WIN a 3 Day Marketplace Ticket to Vogue Knitting Live!!
If you live in the MANY parts of the country where the spring is rainy and chilly, it may be time for a trip to Sunny California. If you’ve never been to a Vogue Knitting Live, you don’t know what you’re missing. Book your flight because you might . . . Win a Vogue Knitting […]
The Memory of Stitches
Life is full of changes. Right now my husband and I are selling our home. It’s a long story, but we’re getting ready for a move and we don’t know to where. Getting your place ready for an open house means packing up a LOT of your stuff. For a knitter, that means packing up yarn, […]
Tuesday Tip – How to Avoid Twisted Stitches!
Some of you may have taken my class “Improve Your Knitting” and have learned quite a bit about Eastern, Western, Combination knitting, and of course, the vital importance of stitch mounts. Sometimes we see something on our knitting that looks a bit odd, similar looking to the V of a knit stitch, but a bit […]
Win a Copy of “Knitting Ephemera”!!
This is the book I’ve been waiting for. It was a couple of years ago that Carol Sulcoski first told me about her book idea. Knitting trivia, weird facts and general fascinating tidbits about knitting! Sign me up! Last month at Vogue Knitting Live, I got to attend the book launch and get my own autographed […]
Happy Knitter’s Valentine’s Day
Last year I wrote a summertime Valentine to my perfect Crafter’s Spouse. Leave me a comment to tell me how your spouse, friend, partner, boss makes your crafting life better. Here’s wishing you a day full of love for our CRAFT!!! Please enjoy this Knitter’s Valentine’s Day slide show
Tuesday Tip: Swatching in the Round (Speed Swatch)
In past Tuesday Tips we have touched on gauge (as many of you know, one of my favorite topics). We’ve talked about how you can measure when you can’t see your stitches, and how to block your swatch. Today I want to deal with another special gauge situations, knitting in the round Gauge Swatch in the […]
Raffle Update – #pattylyonsclassproject
It’s been a week since announcing the raffle to win a Knitter’s Goodie Bag. You still have another week and a half to share your project online and tell me a bit about what you learned in one of my classes. I thought I’d share a few of the class projects that have come in as […]
Win a Knitter’s Goodie Bag!
One of the things I most look forward to on Craftsy and on Ravelry is seeing what my students are working on. The other day I was thinking how I would love to see what the students from my Annie’s, Interweave and my live classes were up to, and while I was at it, it seemed a […]