Behind every yarn and pattern we feature in our clubs there's a dyer and a designer; they are all incredibly creative, hardworking individuals and we want to give you the chance to get to know them a little bit better! In this post, we interview Michael Sellick of The Crochet Crowd! We are so overjoyed that Mikey is our designer for our Q2 Crochet Club project! He will also be at this year's JBW Retreat!  1.    Why did you start designing patterns? You learn to tweak ideas that you see over time to suit your own purposes. I came to realize others wanted to share in my ideas and the only way to do that was to be strategic to write things down and present it back out to the public as an optional pattern. I love the mathematics. Theory converting to tangible...

We missed Stitches West, to say the least! It's been a few years since we've attended the show and when we decided to make our return, we knew we had to come back BIG! Not only were we honored to sponsor the event, but we had the opportunity to showcase our new Namaste Bags & Accessories on the Stitches West Fashion Show runway! To hear the 'oooh's' and 'ahh's' of the crowd was music to our ears (we were totally tickled!)!!  We're beyond excited to share a few photos of what walked down the runway. And, a huge sneak peek at some new colors and bags launching VERY soon on the site!  Namaste,  Photos By Knitting Universe/Stitches West   ...

Behind every yarn and pattern we feature in our clubs there's a dyer and a designer; they are all incredibly creative, hardworking individuals and we want to give you the chance to get to know them a little bit better! We're on our third month of Jimmy's Indie Club and we are super excited to introduce you to the dyer of Black Elephant yarns: Petra Schwarczova! Petra dyed one of our 2018 Micro Brew yarns and we are so happy to get to work with her again!  Why did you start dyeing yarn?  It started as a hobby, as I wanted to dye something for myself. Why did you name the company Black Elephant?  Black is my surname in German (Schwarz) and Elephant was on a notebook my mum gave me for my birthday to write my knitting patterns in. Also, when I was younger,...

addthis_pub = 'laurazander'; addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif'; addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more'; Behind every yarn and pattern we feature in our clubs there's a dyer and a designer; they are all incredibly creative, hardworking individuals and we want to give you the chance to get to know them a little bit better! With month three of the 2019 Tosh Shawl Club fast approaching, we wanted to introduce you to the designer of this year's gorgeous shawl: Ambah O'Brien! Why did you start designing patterns? It was quite spontaneous, as a fairly new knitter I didn't think that I would ever design, however...