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Spotlight Episode: Knit Picks
Season 10
When Knit Picks was founded by husband and wife team Kelly and Bob Petkun in 2002, the company began with a mail-order catalog and soon added online …
1 year, 8 months ago
Laverne Waddington, Backstrap Weaver
Season 10
Laverne Waddington discovered weaving by accident—bike accident, to be precise. Recuperating from a mountain biking crash in Utah, she discovered a b…
1 year, 8 months ago
Gale Zucker, Photographer
Season 10
Embrace the potential of your phone’s camera, choose indirect lighting (not a flash) to show texture, and get your knits off the ground—these are jus…
1 year, 8 months ago
Emily Lymm, Wool & Palette
Season 10
Have you ever opened a book or seen a photograph and thought to yourself, “I have to learn to do that”?
When Emily Lymm first fell in love with knit…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tommye McClure Scanlin, Tapestry Artist
Season 10
Tommye McClure Scanlin had a choice. To make the images she wanted to create with weaving, she could either pursue complex forms of weaving that rely…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rowland & Chinami Ricketts, Indigo Artists
Season 9
Indigo is a unique dyestuff, no less so for being found in so many different plants. Coaxing the blue hue out of green leaves and onto yarn or cloth …
1 year, 10 months ago
Spotlight Episode: Brown Sheep Company
Season 9
Andrew Wells is the third generation of the iconic American yarn manufacturer Brown Sheep Company. Living near the family business outside Scotts Blu…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kate Gagnon Osborn & Courtney Kelley, Kelbourne Woolens
Season 9
Working together in a Philadelphia yarn store, Kate Gagnon Osborn and Courtney Kelley learned how to help customers choose the right yarn for a proje…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jess Zafarris, Author & Etymologist
Season 9
If you knit, spin, sew, weave, or follow any crafty pursuit, you will not be surprised that many of our most common metaphors come from textiles. The…
1 year, 11 months ago
Masey Kaplan & Jen Simonic, Loose Ends Project
Season 9
When Jen Simonic and Masey Kaplan’s friend lost her mother, she had the challenge of going through her mother’s things while grieving her loss. Among…
1 year, 11 months ago