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Tool School: Standing Oval Knitting Loom
By Steve Butler What is it?– Knitting is fun, productive, cathartic, expressive and creative. But mostly it’s creative. In fact, when it comes to the selection of yarns available with all of the exciting colors, textures, and fibers that constitute them, your creative quotient is virtually unlimited.
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Tool School: Marking Pins
By Steve Butler What is it? Whether we’re into knitting or crochet we’re always making something, something made of individual pieces. And that something usually means putting those component pieces together. We all know there are several techniques for joining our knitted or crocheted pieces and that those techniques vary depending on our creative inspiration.
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I Sew For Fun by Nancy Zieman
Clover has had the privilege to have worked and developed many remarkable tools with Nancy. We’ll continue to carry on her legacy by sharing her dream of helping a new generation of sewists be inspired as many of us were and still are by Nancy’s teaching and guidance.
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What’s New for Fall 2017?
We are thrilled to introduce our latest development in products for Fall 2017.
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Marking Pins
https://youtu.be/FNI11PTK5hc What is it? – Whether we’re into knitting or crochet we’re always making something, something made of individual pieces. And that something usually means putting those component pieces together. We all know there are several techniques for joining our knitted or crocheted pieces and that those techniques vary depending on our creative inspiration. Do we want the seams to be invisible or not? Perhaps we want them to be very visible and part of our decorative design as in, really standout. Regardless there is one constant. At some…
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Tool School: Circular Stitch Holders
By Steve Butler What is it? Knitting is a method by which we manipulate a strand of yarn to create a textile or fabric of some sort. This is done by forming loops of yarn, our stitches, on a knitting needle.
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Circular Stitch Holder
What is it? – Knitting is a method by which we manipulate a strand of yarn to create a textile or fabric of some sort. This is done by forming loops of yarn, our stitches, on a knitting needle. By transferring these active stitches between two or more knitting needles we form our fabric. By manipulating these stitches we can form shapes or dimensions within that fabric. Cool, but at this point Hamlet probably would have said, “ay, there lies the rub.” Yes, exactly. This is where the problem…
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A Dear Friend Says Goodbye: Nancy Zieman Announces her Retirement
What do our minds conjure up when we think of someone retiring? Perhaps parting gifts like a gold watch or an office party with too much to drink or those unending farewell speeches laden with exaggerated accolades.
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Warm Up America: Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies
By Warm Up America Each year across the world, 1 million preterm babies die within their first 28 days. Unable to regulate their temperatures, they are vulnerable to hypothermia and ultimately death.
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Tool School: Yarn Guide
By Steve Butler What is it? Stranded colowork is the technique. Fair Isle knitting with its beautiful symmetrical geometric motifs in muted colors or Scandinavian knitting with its striking large asymmetrical motifs in bright contrasting colors or even your own dramatic multi-color creative invention is the result.