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New Hours
If you have been following the store's social media and/or receive the newsletter, you know that this week began new hours of...
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Marcia Farrell
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
Recommended Needle Sizes
Most yarn bands will include a line about the recommended needle and sometimes recommended hook size for the yarn. These recommendations...
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Habetrot's Wheel
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
Yarn Chicken
One of the Tea and Stitch-pathy's podcasts discusses playing yarn chicken--when we have that moment where we aren't sure whether or not...
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Marcia Farrell
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Yarn and Tea
I'm composing this blog post on Local Yarn Store Day 2021 just a few minutes before the shop opens for the day. As this is our second LYS...
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Marcia Farrell
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Local Yarn Store Day 2021
Local Yarn Store Day, originally instituted in 2018 by The National Needlearts Association (TNNA), has a fluid meaning this year. Last...
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Marcia Farrell
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
KALs, CALs, SpALs, and WALs in the Era of Covid
Prior to 2020, while some Knit/Crochet/Spin/Weave-alongs were conducted virtually, through Ravelry or other social media venues, but the...
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Marcia Farrell
- Mar 27, 2021
- 3 min
The Life of Yarn
Most people only know yarn when they select it at the store and then bring it home and either need to wind a hank or search for the...
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Marcia Farrell
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Fair Weather Crafting
Ever feel as though your stitching and yarn choices are related, even slightly, to the weather? I do. Sometimes my project and color...
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Marcia Farrell
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
March is National Crochet Month
I didn't know that there was such a thing, to be honest. I was researching fiber-based holidays when I discovered that March was National...
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Marcia Farrell
- Feb 4, 2021
- 4 min
A Fiber Library
In Sister’s Choice (1991), an albeit dated critical text, Elaine Showalter notes, “While the library was the austere space of the...
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Marcia Farrell
- Jan 29, 2021
- 1 min
Why Must She Suffer to Stitch
If you would like some food for thought, I've attached the conference paper I presented in 2013 on stitching and suffering in literature....
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Marcia Farrell
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Yarn Love
I resisted writing a blog for the shop for a long time. I'm highly protective of my privacy, and with the shop's social media engagement,...
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