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Clover and the Pre-Emmy Award’s Celebrity Gifting Suite
Clover is heading to the Emmy’s! Clover is excited to announce its involvement and inclusion in the 66th Emmy Awards gifting suite hosted by The Borgnine Group in Studio City, California and organized by the Craft & Hobby Association. This is an invitation-only, celebrity gifting experience, and will take place on Saturday, August 23, 2014. Clover Needlecraft will showcase and encourage the Hollywood celebrities to work with Clover’s Takumi Bamboo Knitting Needles, Weaving Sticks, and French Knitter. We are looking forward to sharing and demonstrating our products with the stars and you can follow…
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Knit 2-At-A-Time Dresden Socks
We’re still celebrating the week-long event known as World Wide Knit in Public Day. Where have you taken your knitting so far? World Wide Knit in Public Day started in 2005 and is the largest knitting “meet-up” event in the world! It’s the perfect opportunity to make new friends, learn something new, and show the world that knitting can be fun and is good for your health. Help get rid of that stereotype so many have placed on knitting (it’s not just for grandma!) Join others around the world to create some…
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New Spring Products from Clover
New Spring Products Clover has introduced many new exciting products this Spring. Love our marking tools? Keep reading to find out more about the new air erasable marking pens, and they’re PURPLE! Like to knit with bulky yarns? Sizes 17 & 19 have been added to the Takumi Bamboo Single Point Knitting Needle line. Amour Steel Crochet Hooks and Tatting Shuttles (Sm. & Lg.) are now available in a set! Whether you sew, knit, tat, or crochet…there’s something new for all our Clover fans. Curved Awl Art No. 4880 Ergonomic…
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How to Knit with Beads by Fran Ortmeyer
I have become a fan of knitting with beads. There are several ways to make this happen…one is pre stringing the beads which takes way more time and patience than I have been gifted with SO I did some research and decided the method using a crochet hook to add the beads as you go was what I needed. I love the process and adding beads this way holds them in place. When knitting with prestrung beads you knit them into the stitch and they tend to roll around to…
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Vogue Knitting LIVE Seattle Recap
Vogue Knitting LIVE Seattle March 2014 Recap through Photos Clover has long been a sponsor of the Vogue Knitting LIVE events, however it’s not often that we get to attend the shows to see first hand what Vogue Knitting LIVE is all about. There are classes, lectures, fashion shows, and yarns galore! If you’ve never been, make sure to add it to your wish list because it is a weekend full of fun! Clover was a classroom sponsor, were you one of the lucky ones to receive a sample of…
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Making the Difference in 2014
We hope everyone enjoyed their holidays, we certainly enjoyed a very warm and sunny Christmas here in southern California. The year 2013 brought many new and exciting additions to the Clover product line. New categories have been added to our brand such as beading, weaving, and pressing essentials. There is more to come in the new year and our team is working hard preparing for some upcoming trade events. Clover will be attending CHA in Anaheim, CA (Booth # 2571) as well as TNNA in San Diego, CA (Booth #843).…
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Friday Finds – Get Bamboozled!
Are you Bamboozled yet? We couldn’t end this week without giving you a little more inspiration. Check out some of the fun and easy projects you can create using Clover’s Takumi Bamboo Knitting Needles and Accessories. Attaching sleeves finishing techniques spillyjane knits: Naïve Socks swatchandlearn.com Purple Beanie Triangle Stitch Markers Weaving in your ends using Chibi Darning Needles
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Watch Us Wednesday- Takumi Across the Globe
Takumi, a word that means skilled craftsmanship, is a perfect word to describe our high quality knitting needles and the process that goes into making them. Find out what knitters across the world have to say about Clover’s Takumi Bamboo knitting needles. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebAenzL0LQ&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL5132C032F79ABB84] For more knitting inspiration, visit our Pinterest Knit and Purl Board and tell us why you choose Takumi.
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Bamboo Week
Everything is Bamboo this week at Clover. This strong and hardy fiber is used to create Clover’s Takumi Bamboo Knitting Needles. Clover uses a careful and detailed process to deliver exceptional Bamboo products. Find out more about what makes Clover’s knitting needles stand out from the rest in the links below. New to knitting? Our friends at the Knitting Channel will show you the way. Join Jill Moray as she provides step by step instructions for her revolutionary knitting technique known as the Knitting Pretty Method. Complete all your knitting…
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Friday Finds – Knitted I-Cords
One of the simplest ways to teach knitting is to start with a knitted tube of yarn or i-cord. The i-cord was originally created by the late Elizabeth Zimmerman, knitting pioneer, who called it the idiot cord because anyone can knit one or i-cord for short. It really is quite an ingenious and very versatile piece of knitting. You’ll see i-cords used as ties and finished edges on knit garments; as belts and bag handles; with beads knit in as jewelry; and as decorative elements on home dec projects. You can create an i-cord…