Summer’s wrapping up and the YarnCraft girls are excited for fall and for fall projects. Whether you’re taking care of the kids or just nostalgic for summer camp days past, we’ve got great project ideas for yarncrafters on today’s episode. Patterns featured include:
- Lanyards (Click for one set of basic instructions on Instructables.com)
- Pom-pom animals
- Yarn “paintings” on greeting cards and pencil holders wrapped with yarn
- Beaded bookmark
- Crocheted bookmark
- Knit book cover
- Felted Laptop Case
- Spool-Knit Apple Coaster
- Crochet Monster Dolls: Square, Circle, Triangle, Rectangle
- Knit Coastal Stripe Pullover
- Knit Hooded Sweater
- Knit Sundress
Don’t forget to check out BK4K, our kids’ newsletter, for more ideas.
We also interview Sharon Mann and Phyllis Sandford, writers of the book, Crochet Kid Stuff, which will be featured in September in the Lion Brand E-Newsletter with a great free pattern.
Stash This: Ideas for Your Crafting Life – Liz and Zontee talk about great ideas for those other members of our families, the pets! Find all of the patterns mentioned in this segment by searching on our Pattern Finder, and don’t forget to sign up for our fall catalog to see even more great pet patterns.
To share your comments and thoughts, post a message on the blog, email to yarncraft [at] lionbrand [dot] com, and leave us a message! Our next episode will be focused on embellishments, so tell us about your favorite technique OR let us know if there’s something you want to hear about.
Show Notes:
00:12 Intro and welcome
01:33 Yarn projects for the kids
20:02 Interview Sharon Mann & Phyllis Sandford
23:45 Stash This–ideas for your crafting life
28:48 Thanks to our guests
August 30th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Enjoyed this podcast, I love kids craft. What I am intresting in are Craft Retreats. How do you plan one? Do Lion Brand do Craft Retreats? What types of projects would you do on a CR? I’d like to hear more about that.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Oh, I forgot, maybe in another episode of your podcast, could you talk about the Crochet Along. To hear about other crocheter’s progress. I know it’s a blog on it. But I’d be intrested to hear what the crocheter’s will do with their finished projects.
Thanks.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Hi Harriett,
Lion Brand doesn’t have craft retreats, but if you do a little searching on Google, there are quite a few websites with articles about how to plan a CR and what kind of activities you might do. You may also want to listen to episode 17, in which we talk about crafting in groups.
As for the CAL, we’ll certainly talk about it, but the Lion Brand Notebook is the best resource, as you can leave a comment on the posts to ask questions like what other crocheters will do with their projects, and other participants can answer.
Hope that helps!
~Zontee~
September 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Thanks Zontee. That helps. Appreciate it.
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