By Tara, on January 29th, 2010%
This week’s month of love contributions is a smidge abbreviated because I’ve had a rough week.
Our house was broken into. Again. They stole nothing this time, just rifled through cabinets, breaking cups and squashing any sense of safety.
I thought about skipping this all together, but I love yarn, I love the Month of Love and more than anything, I love sharing it with you.
So, let’s get to the good stuff.
Legolas + Gimli
Luke + Lorelai (already sold!)
———-
This week’s winner is commenter Wordlily, who suggested both the color and the concept for Luke+Lorelai.
. . . → Read More: Month Of Love Check-in: Abbreviated
By Tara, on January 27th, 2010%
Last week I listened to the BEST podcast I’ve ever heard about sharing-your-crafty-thing. It was Sister Diane’s CraftyPod show about Engagement Marketing.
If you sell your crafty thing (patterns, yarns, purses, whatever!) you really need to listen to this.
What’s Engagement Marketing?
Diane gives a great definition and explains why you’d want to use it, but I can’t resist putting it in my own words. It’s sharing your thing by connecting. By making relationships, by talking to your customers one-by-one. It’s what we (you and I) do here on the blog in the comments. It’s chatting on Twitter. It’s leaving comments on Flickr.
Ignore the word Marketing.
Because it’s so much more than that. (and I don’t like the word marketing)
It’s not just sharing my passion with you, even though that’s always fun.
In all of this connecting, sharing, chatting; I’ve gotten to know you. You share your . . . → Read More: In which I gush about how much I love you…
By Tara, on January 22nd, 2010%
Happy Month of Love! Have you suggested a yarn yet? Read the contest details here!
It started simply enough, with Sesame Street:
But Month of Love morphed into Geek Week with lot of sci-fi type inspiration.
This week is all Lord of the Rings-inspiration with Celeborn + Galadriel:
Arwen + Aragorn
and Legolas + Gimli (coming tomorrow!)
Just to solidfy my geek-cred, we have Spock + Kirk:
Next week, the geekery continues with Battlestar-inspired yarns (along with a few other, less geeky TV shows, like Gilmore Girls and Mad Men). Catch them all here, a new one every day!
———
This week’s winner is Karma, who suggested both the color and the name for Galadriel+Celeborn. Aragorn + Arwen were mentioned in the comments but with different colors and I had already spun this yarn with them in mind.
Suggest a couple (or group) AND specific . . . → Read More: Month Of Love Round-up #1
By Tara, on January 20th, 2010%
Remember how last week I got a bit crochet-obsessed?
Yeah, that didn’t fade away.
I’m crocheting a bunch of these hexagons to make a blanket for my bedroom (lots and lots and lots of green scrap yarn).
I start with cute little circles, crochet as many of those as I feel like and then I move onto,
adding the second round. I usually do one round of that and jump right to the last round:
And at this point, I stop and move onto the next hex. Because though it’s not a full hexagon left, I want to join them together as I add the last brown, hex-making round.
Every circle is going to be hex-ed with the same brown yarn (I think it’s an alpaca/wool blend, but a big bag was given to me un-labeled, so I’m just guessing.
Since I want to . . . → Read More: Hex-Love
By Tara, on January 14th, 2010%
Colors, like people, play off each other. Highlighting, complimenting, contrasting. Suggest a couple and color and win 50% off, during this celebration of color + love. . . . → Read More: 3rd Annual Month of Love Contest
By Tara, on January 13th, 2010%
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about yarn (the New Year brought new projects), but it is still my first love.
Sometimes I forget and wander into the land of launching a yarn store in 12 days or teaching other yarnies…but all it takes is one great pattern to pull me right back to my first love!
This granny square is what drew my fervent adoration this week. Or maybe it was this entire rainbow-colored blog.
Or maybe it was Mercedes of Kitchen Sink Dyeworks (she’s kitchensinkdye on Twitter), who is crocheting the most amazing granny squares from her handpainted yarn.
(yarn dyed, squares crocheted and photograph taken by Mercedes)
But once I fell into this granny square vortex, I started scarfing up granny square information.
How to Granny from Meet Me at Mike’s How to Granny from Purl Bee
And then . . . → Read More: Cro-Crazy
By Tara, on January 7th, 2010%
I can’t believe it’s taken me 4 days to share this (blame on being snowed in!) but last Sunday, my yarn shop (A Novel Yarn) was featured in the biggest local paper – The Johnson City Press!
That’s me on the left (with the pink hair) and my business partner (and mom) on the left. We’re hugging a shelf full of Jen Hintz’s yarn (the photographer made us do it).
As you can see, the article took up the whole front page of the Temp (ie. Lifestyle) section, with a picture of my picture of Shera, along with more of Jen’s yarn and my mom’s hands knitting.
The article was all about our “philosophy” of handmade yarn and living curiously (about where stuff comes from, if we can make it, how it’s made, etc).
The article also . . . → Read More: In the local paper!
By Tara, on January 6th, 2010%
Do you make something awesome? Want to share it with the world? I want to help! . . . → Read More: Helping Yarnies Share Your Thing
|
|
|
