Sunday, August 31, 2025
My Bingo Update
Monday, August 18, 2025
Happy Yarnsgiving!!
Have you heard about this? It's all about making with yarn and giving that thing at Thanksgiving. This is the second year for yarnsgiving. It was started by the Craft Yarn Council of America. Designers get together and create new and beautiful things for knitters and crocheters to make to give away. Now, if you think it's just something like creating yarn dolls, think again. Last year's submissions were creative and fabulous. Check out the website here
Yarnsgiving runs from I Love Yarn Day, October 12, to Giving Tuesday, December 2. In the spirit of donating, the inspiration is to create things for donation to Warm Up America. Warm Up America offers blankets and warm winter accessories for people who struggle with homelessness, being below the poverty level for basic necessities.
I'm planning to offer both a knit design and a crochet design. My knit design submission will be a cowl. I am thinking of a striped cowl with leaves in lace. My crochet design submission will be a napkin ring featuring a turkey.
In my mind, they look fabulous. Now to get the patterns written, the prototype done, the pictures taken, and everything submitted. Come craft along with us.
Yarnsgiving has a list of sponsors we will support. The perennial favorite Red Heart is listed. This has been a workhorse in my area for close to 60 years. Also in the yarn department will be yarnspirations that support the Caron brand and Bernat brand.
This year's colors come from Pantone's line of paints. They are beautiful colors. I want to go to the paint department and pick up swatches of the colors for shopping for yarn, I will link the colors in a new post when I get them.