Hello, beautiful!
Here is our NOVEMBER yarn giveaway! ❤️
I hope you enjoy this month’s hand-dyed yarn giveaway and if you want to go ahead and get entered check out the instructions below. ↓
TO ENTER, click here.
Also comment below and let me know… what is your favorite crafting memory?
NOTES:
•You will also receive a $10 voucher to our shop just for entering!
•Last month’s giveaway winner is Alice Hempel – Congrats!
•Worldwide entries welcome.
•Winner will be chosen at random early DECEMBER and announced in the next giveaway.
•You must still be subscribed to our email list at the end of the month to be eligible to win.
Yarns in Giveaway-(9) Sparkle DK, (6) Pearlescent Fingering, (5) Pearlescent Worsted, (4) Blossom Fingering, (3) Sincere Sock, and (1) Alpaca Lace.
I hope you enjoy this month’s giveaway!
Remember to soak up THIS day! Know you are held and loved and guided…
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~Chandi
I love, love this ❣️❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for the opportunity…. I just love your yarns
Favorite memory. Finding your site! And loving the everything about it! Chandi, you are the kindest person, with free give always
And caring, your enthusiasm and bringing that to others! Pam, you are the best FIXER ever and emit kindness, both of you!
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Seeing someone wearing something I’ve knitted them is my favourite thing. The first sweater I knitted my 22 year old son at his request, the blanket he snuggles under over 200 miles away brings us close again. My granddaughter’s beaming smile when she’s wearing her blue woolen jacket and Lucy in her slytherin hat and scarf ; all give me a warm glow inside.
Hi Chandi,
Some of my favourite crafting memories are when I taught my son’s grade 3 class weaving; also, seeing my young sons happy expressions when gifting them handknit items and now my dear grandchildren.
Love this gift pack of luscious yarn! Thank you for the opportunity🧶
I love everything about your website! Love the rich colours you offer and I watch the fabulous videos you create!
My favourite crafting memory is going on a horse drawn sled through the snow to a back in the woods bush house. It is heated by wood and also had a wood heated stove that they made hot chocolate and hot cidar to drink when you arrived and long tables and benches to sit at where they had crafts spread out for the kids to paint, glue, colour different activities themed for thanksgiving or Christmas or Easter (all depending on the time of year). If was beautiful and because we all absolutely loved it this is my favourite crafting memory but also just a favourite memory with family.
Wow, that is amazing! What a great memory ❣️
I remember learning to crochet when I was little by my Mom! I wish I could have those moments back!
Stunning yarns & colors!!!
I honestly don’t think I have a specific memory, but I’ve been crafting as long as I can remember…
One of my favorite crafting memories is my mom teaching me to crochet when I was young.
Sooooo pretty! I’d have to say my favorite crafting memories involve my older sister. I’ve done little things here or there all growing up such as jewelry making and loom knitting but was too scared to try knitting by itself because I could never figure out how to crochet even to this day.
Well my sister was visiting for Christmas a few years ago and I had asked her if she would help me with a beggingers kit for knitting. She went into her room which I am still convinced is magic cause she could literally pull anything you needed out of there and brought me some straight needles and a ball of black worsted weight yarn and said “here you go. There is your starter kit.” I started looking up tutorials on YouTube but wasn’t finding any that I really liked so I just kind of said to her “help me please. I am so confused.” she pulled up some of her favorite channels and one of them was yours! I really took off from there and when I had my micro preemie twins knitting was one of the few things that kept me from crying all the time. Making patterns for my Littles hats was a big part of making it through day by day. The elf hats were the biggest hit with nursing staff. To this day I send her pictures of my projects and we gush over what the other is working on.
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My fondest memories are crafting with family not just because of the crafts made but the wonderful time spent with family. Best times were with my Grandma teaching me to crochet, needlepoint..; with my Mom teaching me how to sew, cook.. & all the time spent my daughter from the time she was itty bitty crocheting, painting, sculpting, every & all kinds of crafting we could get our hands on 😊
My favorite crafting memory is sitting in my grandmother’s living room making crochet chain stitches over and over (only stitch I knew) while she worked on the afghan that is now in my room. I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4. As an adult, when she was toward the end of her life, I used to go to her house on my lunch breaks and sit and crochet and just talk. I miss her terribly!
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My favorite crafting memory is buying my 1st book on how to knit and actually FINISHING my 1st project a dishcloth! And a feeling of success! I worked for what seemed forever on it! I still have it and when I see it in my kitchen towels drawer I feel like I have come a long way. It’s not great by any means but it was a triumph in my book!
Finishing a first project is truly a triumph!
My favorite crafting memory was teaching 2 of my nieces and my one nephew to crochet. That’s 3 of the 5 of them, lol. It was a fun and bonding experience. The only one who really took to it was my nephew and it was interesting teaching him because he is predominantly left-handed and I am right-handed. But he can do things with both hands and picked up crochet with his right hand, just with a twist when he loops over, it gives a signature to his pieces.
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My favourite crafting memory is finishing my first sweater!
That’s a great one!
Being taught to crochet as 6 yrs, making chains with my fingers.
My favorite crafting memory is teaching my daughter to crochet, about 10 years ago. The cool thing is that she now makes gifts for her friends for the holidays… hats, throws, etc. She is now 18, and getting ready to leave for college. I’m happy she has a love for fiber arts to take with her!
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My favorite crafting memory was teaching my two kids how to make snowflakes out of paper using scissors, glue and glitter. My mom had taught me and I taught them. They were 4 and 6 at the time. They were so proud of what they made. We hung them up for Christmas decorations and 30 plus years later those same snowflakes still are part of our Christmas tradition. I even sent a few to my son when he was deployed to Afghanistan during the holidays. He was so surprised!
Love!
My favorite crafting memories are my Grandma teaching me & my sisters to crochet when we were 8, 12 & 14. And we still spend time crocheting together!
My sister and I also learned to spin last year. We have so much fun spinning yarn together!
Has to be the day my mom drew stylized cherry blossoms with pastels onto paper, and then folded the paper into origami. It was magically beautiful.
I only started knitting a few months ago, so I don’t really have any memories yet.
I’m excited that you have started your knitting journey!
My favorite crafting memory is of giving a college friend of mine a baby blanket that I quilted for her son. It was a beautiful blanket and I was so proud to give it to him. She was really touched, and it just made me feel so good to know I had made it for them.
I started learning crochet because my mom said she want the shwal from youtube. She lived in different country and I want to give something more personal instead of buying. Crocheting helps me keep concentrating and relieve some stress .
Favorite crafting memorat…
Knitting peacefully without any goale în mine and enjoing evreu stich.
My favorite crafting memory is when I finished making my son a goblin toy for him that he saw in one of my books and he said he had to have it.
So so pretty 🙂 I love the beautiful purples!
As for a crafting memory, what has always stuck with me is my elementary school teacher inviting me and some other classmates to her house for tea where she then taught us how to knit. As someone who struggled with ADHD as a student, knitting and crochet helped me concentrate so much and I wouldn’t be where I am now if she hadn’t taught us.
Man, knitting and crocheting are super helpful for ADHD! It’s like the stitches help my brain organize itself, I always say!
My favorite crafting memory is as a kid, my mom and I learned every new craft we could find, from needlepoint, cross stitch, hardanger, quilling, tatting, embroidery, etc. So many great memories.
Some of my first crafting memories are around the Granny Square Afghan that my Mom crocheted for me when I was very young. She took me to the Benjamin Franklin store to pick out the yarn and I helped her block the squares. And I watched as she sewed it all together. Mom taught me how to crochet when I got a little bit older. I come from 2 lines of makers. Her Mom and Aunt were knitters and my Nana likes to crochet. I’ve been able to teach my stepdaughters how to knit and I plan to teach all of their kids how to knit too.
Hmmmm. Many good crafting memories. One that comes to mind is making a crocheted blanket for mother. She loved it and spent much of her time in the last years of her life snuggled up in it.
Times with my mom. Now making memories with my daughter.
My favorite crafting memory is how proud my grandpa was of me when I gifted him my very first pair of socks ❤️
If I was a little girl we have not much money, so I made things for my Barbie by myself.
My favorite crafting memory is when my grandmother taught me to crochet. I made miles of chains LOL..that was 57 years ago.
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My favorite crafting memory is finishing my first blanket! I had several starts but because of life, work, kids etc. projects were laid down and never finished. Life has slowed down and I have actually finished two blankets1
Some of my favorite crafting memories are of a weekly pottery class I took as a young teenager. My sister is 12 years older and gifted me with this class. She took me every week. I LOVED the craft, sanding and painting the pottery and seeing how it turned out. BUT, it was the socializing with the older ladies that I most treasured. I loved hearing their stories, life pursuits, dreams and even painful times.
I learned to knit this past February. And am now a part of a little knitting group that meet on Wednesdays. And we have fellowship each time we get together. I LOVE it almost as much as I love knitting.
My favorite crafting memory is my first night learning how to crochet actually. It took me three hours to crochet a little flower but I was SO PROUD when I figured it out. From there, my love for yarn kept growing.
I remember many decades ago making baby blankets using pastel colors with the shell stitch. I saved my son’s blanket and I still have the pattern.
Thank you for giving everyone this opportunity each month. It speaks to your character, if anyone had any doubts somehow, and it is another example that you are a down to earth, quirky, beautiful…normal person who made her dreams come true and that it is possible for anyone to follow their passion in life. Thank you.
I just started to crochet and a little knitting as well. I am self taught and watch your you tube tutorials daily. So my favorite crafting memory isn’t yarn related, but when I was very young I had the privilege of watching my aunt hand sew a personalized Christmas stocking for my brother, sister and myself and it has all these pretty details and pretty embellishments that she did all by hand. We still have them to this day almost 40 years later and I absolutely cherish it…so when I was pregnant with my first child I decided to do the same for him and for my other 3 children also. And now it is something that my sister has asked me to do for my baby nephew who made me an auntie in July this year…I didn’t realize how much it would mean to me to have her ask for me specifically to do something for her son that she knew was a big part of our family tradition and I’m just thankful for the little memories that turn into such big influences into who I am as a person….especially with my family.
Love this!
Thanks!! For the $10 voucher is that emailed or?
It is a coupon code that you enter at checkout. 😊
Where do I find the code? I am making a purchase today
You can use the code ilovenovember (all lowercase) Hope that helps!
My memory is all about learning to knit with Youtube (and with you and many others generous souls) and be sooo glad to be able to do something because all the things that made me where going slowly away with the MS. Knitting is the positive that make my days worthwhile. Your yarn is so beautifull, oh my…
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Blue is my favorite color, so I am loving these yarns! My favorite crafting memory is making earrings and other jewelry out of seashells my mom, my aunt and I found on the beach in Florida one year. We would always go to the beach for two weeks every summer and my Aunt Marie and Uncle Merle and their kids would come with us. So many good memories! I got my love of shells from my mom, no doubt.
My favoritist crafting memory would be teaching my girls, 28 and 16 how to arm knit several years ago. I never laughed so hard ❤️
My mom teaching me how to crochet. I saw her making a blanket for our couch (my dad loved napping under them) and I asked her how she was doing that. She gave me a hook and yarn showed me what to do and I started to play!
I loved being able to make things out of beads so I made a snowflake ornament as a gift. My favorite thing was helping to decorate the tree each year and seeing that ornament and know that it was treasured. To this day I still love the handmade projects that you take the time to make fore those you love.
My favorite crafting memory was when I finished a square of Sophie’s Garden for my sister. She uses it as a wall hanging in her dorm room.
Favorite crafting memory- “designing” and !
then cutting the fabric and sewing all the pcs to make my mom a 3/4 sleeve top. My grandma and mom were always making clothing for me and my sister, and I remember thinking that we should make some thing for Paw- paw (grandma in Cantonese) and Mommy! I was 9 years old, and my mom was so impressed, she wore it all day that day. (It wasn’t all that pretty, but I did my best- and my mom allowed me to feel proud of the job I had done.).
One of my favorite crafting memories was helping my son. He was in the 1st grade and he had to build a kite. There were NO instructions from the teacher! Nothing about how long or wide no instructions. Nothing so we cobbled together what we had at home. Forgot to mention we had only the weekend and there was a prize given to the student who flew there kite the highest. We live in the valley between the blue ridge mountains so we always have a breeze. We used popsicle sticks, straws, newspaper, and tried to use party streamers for the tale.But they kept breaking so we used yarn in a long tassel. It looked pretty rough! My son wasn’t real impressed with our creation but I reminded him. He had to take it on the bus. So it was maybe 12 inches wide and 10 inches long not including the tail of yarn. So he takes this little kite to school with tape,newspaper, straws ect.. to school. I worried all day he would come home upset about not winning. So 3pm gets here. HE’S HOME! I’m ready for tears. But he’s got a huge smile on his face!! He burst through the door saying “Mom,Mom you won’t believe it! I WON!!” I said Congratulations did it fly the highest? He said “YES! You were right!” Me ” Right about what?” ” Everyone else made there’s so big they got broken on the bus! And the girl who’s mom drove her to school broke it comming into Mrs.Smiths room. Mrs.Smith let them try to fix there’s with tape. But because mine was so small it flew above the teachers head! So I won!! And proudly showed off his gold plastic coin on a ribbon. It just goes to show bigger isn’t always better! And ugly or not it can still be useful! Proud Mom moment!
I love this! A perfect lesson. 💕
Hello everyone,
I just found this post and got very exited, because all your stories are kind of what I am looking for during my masterthesis!
I am a Masterstudent from Cologne and I am trying to build a “carpet of memories”. These carpet schould grow with bits an pieces of memories and anecdotes about textile crafting.
(like: where did you learn it, who teached you, what do you think is the female role in it, etc..)
I can’t offer you something such an amazing giveaway as Chandi did, but I would be so greatful, if you would post and paritcipate if you are interested.
More informatione can be found here:
(https://kunstmodule.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/english-verstrickungen-und-verknupfungen/).
Thank you very much for your time and with best regards, V&V
When I was expecting my second baby (total of 5 over 9yrs) I decided I wanted to learn to Knit. Living in Delaware and expecting in September I decided to make a bunting and hat. I found a pattern and supplies and a how to knit book and with the help of my neighbor from Italy I actually completed my project. I was more the proud and excited about my finished piece. My new son was snuggly warm thru the winter.
I learned make a crochet chain when I was 8, but didn’t know how to do anything more than that! So I would run around the house looking for anything I could chain, curtain cords, pillow tassels, you name it, I was chaining it lol but I remember having a blast with it. It’s where my passion for fibre arts started!
My favourite crafting memory is learning from my mom how to knit.
I’m so very grateful for the opportunity to win such a beautiful collection of yarn! I’m so excited to have found your blog, your calm, kind, gentle manner is so very relaxing & mesmerizing. I can’t wait to make my first project with yarn from your company. I truly feel blessed, inspired, & compelled, holding the yarn just makes me feel safe, I can picture my own Ciottolo wrapped around me. I have told everyone I know in the yarn community. I’m grateful to have been introduced, & I’m anticipating many more purchases in my future. The intrigue is absolutely overwhelming. Thank you very much for everything you do, you make my day brighter! 😇😎😃
What beautiful yarn you have!! I love looking at all the gorgeous yarns and the beautiful photographs, too.
My favorite crafting memory was when I was a child, my Mom, Dad and I often made our Christmas gifts.
I remember having to stay out of a certain sewing room when my dad was using the sewing machine to make my gift.
He didn’t usually sew, so when He had made me a stuffed Fred Gonk doll, it was a very special and spectacular gift indeed!
My favorite crafting memory is being squeezed in next to Grandma in her chair so she could teach me That was over 50 years ago and I can still smell her perfume.
My favorite memories were when my grandmother taught me how to crochet, and one of my aunts taught me how to macrame.
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My favorite crafting memory is making a crochet yellow bear made to look like the yellow bear of miffy. I just took a bear pattern I already had and just by placing the ears different and using a different nose I had made IT. First time modifying and the really happines in the boys eyes when I hand him his new stuffy totally made my day.
I really, really love the colorway this month. Purple is my most used and favorite color.
Favorite cratfing memory: helping at the fair’s sheep to shawl booth with my mom’s fiber arts guild when I was a kid. I mostly just demonstrated using the drum carder but I learned the love of the crafts there.
I thoroughly enjoy receiving your emails. Your sweet spirit & lovely words always make me smile. The colors of your yarns are so rich and luxurious that I must see each one.
My favorite knitting memory is curling up on the couch with my 2 girls & teaching them to knit & showing them the difference in yarns. They still to this day touch and squish each skein and love the feel of quality yarns.
My little sister and best friend taught me to knit a winter in 1999. I was ten years old and had been sick. They taught me how to ‘cast on’ but they didn’t know how to do it very well.
But the memory of it is just so re-comforting and cozy. I love them both, and love knitting since.
Cheers!
My favorite crafting memory is when a now dear friend asked me, “Do you knit?”
My favourite crafting memory was the first time my mom tried to teach me how to knit a scarf. I kept letting stitches slip off my needle and then my mom would get it fixed for me to try again. It kept happening until I couldn’t stop laughing and then my mom started laughing too.
My favorite crafting memory has to be when we would make Christmas ornaments in elementary school. I was always so excited to go home and show my mom what I made. Over time, she’s had to throw some of them away due to age, but she still has almost every ornament my younger sister and I ever made. It’s precious.
My first knitting memory was Grandma trying to teach me to knit. A big fail on my part. Then crochet. Failed that too. Fast forward, the Stubborn Me tried & tried again, again until I FINALLY got it! Crocheted for 20 yrs +/-, then taught myself to knit (pre- You Tube… books, books!)
Love your beautiful yarns, knitted shawls are my fave!
I have only been knitting knitting for one year; a fact I was reminded of by Facebook memories!! My favorite
Memory would have to be the satisfaction when I successfully finished my first piece that was pretty nice. Oh it still had mistakes but I did it! Chandi your Yarns are gorgeous and I so enjoy knitting with them!! I look forward to the day that I win this giveaway! Yessss I am claiming that eventually I will win! Have a great wonderful crisp November day! I am 57, retired and back to work full time so I knit every chance I get!
My favorite crafting memory is me teaching my mom how to crochet. She has done amazing projects since then and without patterns too! So proud!!
My favorite crafting memories are knitting (and quilting) with my Mom’s help and advice. She passed away in November over 20 years ago, so November is not my favorite month. I want to let you know that I appreciate your upbeat messages and the beautiful colors and yarn that you create. I appreciate the patterns that you giveaway at no cost. Though I often collect them more than knit them, I know that are waiting for me to knit in the future. Thank you for being you!
I went to live with my father and stepmother when I was twelve. I hardly knew him and I was stubborn enough to vow to hate her. Anyway, a few months later she decided to teach me how to crochet. It was a bonding experience and I’m so grateful for it. To this day crocheting calms me and gives me a sense of comfort.
one of my favorite crafting memories is helping my mom make the wood blocks for quilting. we glued wood thread spools onto the cut-outs and then i got to help cut the the fabrics into the squares & triangles and pin them together as she sewed. i’m not sure how much actual help i was at 6 yrs old and its probably a miracle she managed to make them into quilts 😁
Thank you for this giveaway opportunity! My favorite crafting memory was when my sister wanted to make a simple amigurumi. We bought some yarn, picked a pattern for an octopus and sat on the couch, counting each stitch out loud together to make sure we were on the same page. It was a lot of fun and I still have my octopus on my bookshelf!
In HS my bestie and I cut class and sat behind the gym making friendship bracelets, eating candy, and sharing earbuds listening to the Fresh Prince on the discman. Ah, the 90s.
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My favorite crafting memory is watching my great nana crochet, She was so fast. She taught me how to crochet and I made a looooonnnnggggg single crochet chain.
A favorite crafting memory is with my grandma, she taught me to knit, and also to sew. I remember sitting at her old sewing machine in the afternoon while she showed me how to construct a vest using a pattern. After she passed away, I took the sewing machine, it’s still my primary machine for all sewing projects.
I have so many fun memories around crafting: going to yarn fests with my friends (or going alone and just enjoying the experience); the first time I did a cable and it came out right; the time I taught myself 3 different stitches to make a knitted lace edging. (It came out looking like a little heart! Look up the My Dearest Angelica shawl to see the pattern.) Mostly just sitting on the couch on a quiet Sunday, no TV, no radio, just the sound of my needles on a project. Sigh!
I’m not sure I have a favorite crafting memory. But every time I finish a project, I feel really accomplished, it’s so fulfilling. So, rather than a memory, it’s more a feeling that I remember, and that fortunately comes back every time. 🙂
My favorite crafting memory is when I was around 9 or 10. I started decorating wreaths and I really enjoyed it. It was the first time that I realized that I loved to be creative and I was lucky that my mom and Mimi were encouraging.
Favorite crafting memories is learning g to knit with my sister-in-law. She has such patients and is an amazing teacher!
Hi Chandi & Everyone Else!!
My favorite crafting memory of ALL TIME goes way back when our two sons were 14 and 11 (they’re now 44 and 41, respectively) Anyway I stayed home with them until they were both well settled in school and then I took that major leap of faith and started college to get my Teaching Certification. It was summer of 1988 and I was one of those “Non-traditional” students, as they termed us at that time! I started at a great Community College and then went straight in to the fast track of summer session at MTSU. NO BREAKS, STRAIGHT THROUGH! My goal was to major in SPECIAL EDUCATION, but because I loved the challenges of Math also, I ended up with a Dual Certification in Teaching. I was certified in Special Ed💕K-12; Regular Ed 1st-8th/9th depending on what grades the “Middle School” he used, and I obtained “An Area of Concentration in Math,” meaning I could teach Math thru Middle School. I MEANT to be hire able when I graduated! But the crafting came in on the Regular Ed Reading Department. As students we had to write, illustrate, and make a “hard cover” book to read to our students when we got to the student teaching stage. It was a major part of our grade for that class! Now I can write a story like no other person. It sounds as country as I do when I’m just hanging with family and friends, being from Mid-south TN. The problem is I don’t know when to stop- it goes on and on! Having two active boys on a farm left me with multiple choices to write about so I chose about the funniest one to date that had not happened to may years before and away I went with my rough draft, constantly marking pages off to get it w/in the limits. The the Illustration! Folks, I am far from an artist. I still today have to draw STICK PEOPLE! My story involved action! Boys hanging by all fours from tree branches, running , a big red barn and the main character RAMBO, a horned woolly suffix ran that we had raised on a bottle because his mom died while birthing him. For a large part of his young life he lived in a huge box in my kitchen! To be clear Rambo was a BIG PET that our youngest son, BJ, rough housed with all over the farm all along us telling him that one day Rambo will be to big for that and you’d best watch you back! Remember I mentioned boys hanging from tree branches earlier?? How was I going to write and Illustrate this story so my former students really Loved it and my instructor as well? He walked in the house in perfect timing! It turned out to me the second main character of my story, my 11yr old son BJ!
Boy could that kid draw! While I got the story “down” to guidelines, BJ would take what I finished and so his magic!! And ‘No” it was all legal, no cheating! BJ and I had a blast putting that book together, he even illustrated both covers! Most memorable “A” I ever received and many students later enjoyed our book titled “RAMBO”……..
THANKS FOR A CHANCE ON YOUR YARN XHANDI❣
SHELLY CALVERT
What a lovely time! Thanks for sharing!
My favorite memory is when I finally finished my first shawl.I was Thrilled that I had finally finished after all the mistakes, it came out not so perfect but was good enough for me {o; Now it is my favorite pattern and I have mastered it..
Mu favorite crafting memory is when my daughter asked me to make her friend a pair of mittens. They were 2nd graders at the time. The next thing I knew she was taking orders from all her friends. I ended up making 4 hats, 2 mittens, and 3 fingerless gloves that year. I loved it!
I used to teach preschool, so I have so many great crafting memories. Watching kids create from their hearts, when they’re not self-conscious yet, is so special. I just lived in fear of them asking me to draw, because it is NOT a strong point for me…. One time a boy asked me to draw something and when I did it he said, “Teacher, that’s not very good.” Ouch!
My favorite crafting memory is taking a knitting class at Sears. Our very first project was a wool sweater and I was so proud when I finished it. But then I decided to wash it. Being young and dumb I washed in HOT water and I learned the art of felting. It turned out doll sized!
I absolutely LOVE all your yarns and patterns! One of my favorite memories is my mom showing me how to knit and then later crochet. My mom passed away this time last year and I miss her everyday.
How do you correct a word or two in your post?? Thanks. SC
My favorite memory is sitting next to my Grandma on her sofa, and learning to crochet.
My memory is very much like swiss cheese, so I cannot say for sure it is my all time favorite, but probably when I finished my single-color Sophie’s Universe and gave it to my grandmother. I’d been working on it at her kitchen table for a few days and she said “Gee Whitney you are doing great, that is so lovely!” and I got to reply “I’m glad you like it, since it is for you!”
My favorite memory would be learning to sew with my mom… she was so talented and made such beautiful clothes. She was always so happy when she was sewing. ♥️
Chandi I want to thank you for helping to teach me to knit through watching your videos. You are so energetic and sweet. You have such beautiful yarns and patterns. I’ve been knitting just over a year now. I started while recovering from a mastectomy. I was thrilled to learn I wasn’t the only one that squishes the yarn…. Rubs it on my face. I love the feeling as the yarn slides through my fingers as a project comes together. lol
Teaching both our kids to knit! At 25 years old, our daughter still knits, our son didn’t stick with it – sports were wayyyy more interesting to him 😉 BUT I love the memories of teaching them both and them being so willing and excited to learn! <3
My favorite crafting memory is of 11yo me sitting with my mom and my late sister, learning how to crochet. We would all sit together and work on our stitches, making granny squares to make a blanket together.
My favorite crafting memory is teaching my adult daughter how to quilt. It truly was quality time together.
So much to be thankful for, even the opportunity to invest in your gorgeous works of art! Thanks Chandi for all the discounts you offer that we may make it possible particularly in these times🌸 Best of luck to all💃🏽
My favorite crafting memory was the day I sold a mochila bag that was done in tapestry crochet. It came out beautiful.
My favorite crafting memory is my mother teaching me to knit. That was 66 years ago. The first thing I made was a small envelope purse with a sewn snap closure.
Really hard to find a favorite crafting memory, there are so many! I think it was discovering my Local Yarn Store and the like minded individuals that would attend their knit nights. That’s where I learned how to safely unravel my stitching to fix mistakes and the existence of life lines 🙂
I’m not aure how to pick a favourite memory, because there are so many, so I’ll just share some.
My Mom had so much patience teaching all of us to sew, and helped me make several fancy dresses for special occasions. They are hangung in my closet now. Perhaps the most fun dress is the one I made for our homeschool medeival feast, out of a heavy gold curtain.
Mom taught me to knit when I was about 7, and I decided to knit a scarf for my baby sister, but there were so many mistakes that it progresses by several inches, then had to be taken out just as far every time. I finally decided it wasn’t going to happen when that baby sister was no longer a baby!
When I lived with my parents, I often woke up and knitted a few rows whenever I went into my room during the day.
I crocheted snowflakes for my Mother in Law for Christmas a couple years ago, and she loves them so much, she keeps them hanging all year long.
Hi Chandi! Thank you for all that you do in our yarn community, I look forward to your emails every day! All the colors of yarn literally brighten my day!
My favorite crafting memory would be my husband and I working together to create something amazing. Example, we have a bearded dragon and her tank looked boring, so my husband made her a custom hide/cave with all kinds of extras on it. My part was to crochet her a hammock, a little bridge and a mat to go with the hide, all made out of juke cord and scrubby yarn. Him and I working together is a perfect match!
Learning to crochet with my grandmother at a very young age
Wow, look at those beauties!! All my favourite colours!! My favourite crafting memory is actually my first. I was around 4 years old, my mother had just left, and so I was being raised by my father as a single parent, and he valued self sufficiency and the ability to survive, no matter what. So as part of his teachings he taught me how to knit. Just the knit stitch (as that was all he knew) but it was enough to get me started and learn on my own from there, expanding my knowledge over time (even to crocheting!) From the holy scarf which was my first project (made for him, which he dutifully wore, even though it was awful!), now 50 years and two family generations later I’m making heirloom blankets for the latest family members. A simple lesson given to a heartbroken little girl so many years ago has become the most amazing gift and a constant source of comfort, for which I will be forever grateful.
I’ve been a jeweler most of my life it seems and like most artists have a slew of other crafting interests. Crocheting or knitting wasn’t one of those. My fondest memory was an unexpected gift from My beautiful mother in law who could do the most amazing crochet (and sewing she made my wedding dress). A few days after she passed, we got a call that her yarn order was in, since it was paid for we picked it up and it was all this sparkle yarn; she’d purchased it to make me a new Christmas tree skirt. The pattern was in the bag, so I decided I WAS going to make this tree skirt. It was so hard, I’d never read a pattern; I was clueless, but many trips to the store for help, I finished that tree skirt, and yes even before Christmas. I still use it. From that a monster was born lol. I never stopped crocheting and have even made a few knitted items. I love EFA yarns and Miss Chandi, Miss Pam.
I think my favorite crafting memory, if I have to pick just one 😬 Would be making paper angels with my Mom for Christmas. We would use heavy wrapping paper in gold and silver and roll it into a cone. Placing a Styrofoam ball on top as the head (I’m 53, so we didn’t understand about Styrofoam in 1975!) Then we would make the halo out of tin foil. We would place them all around the livingroom. 🎄👼
My favorite memory is planning and gifting my first afghan to my mom. It’s a simple blanket, but it was my first one! I love that every time I’m at her house, it’s right there on her couch.
I’ve spent over 50 years crafting in one form or another, and most things I’ve made as gifts.
The giving of each knitted sweater, crocheted afghan, quilt, cross stitch, or whatever, holds a special
place in my heart, because that is why I make those things, to share love, because that is what I
want to do, and that is what I do. Share love. In whatever way possible.
My husband and I were given the opportunity to live in London for a year. I learned to crochet on YouTube after meeting another women from Connecticut who was an accomplished knitter. My favorite memory is taking the tube into Islington to buy yarn. Down an alley was this tiny adorable yarn shop – we could easily spend an hour or more just touching and holding yarn. We would each buy a skein and then go have lunch at this little neighborhood Italian deli. Their pasta was homemade in the deli and the food was amazing. Great memories of a lovely friend, beautiful yarn, crocheting, and great tasting food and wine. 🙂
One of these months I’m going to win this drawing! Oh what a happy day that will be! Makes my heart sing to think of all that beautiful, squishy soft yarn. I might curl up and sleep with it. What luxury!
Any memory of my grandmother teaching me a craft — quilting, cross-stitching, crocheting — is a good memory. My mother’s reaction to a loom-knitted afghan is my most recent favorite memory. She was so excited to realize I was giving it to her after all the months she saw me working on it.
my favorite crafting memory is trying to teach my mom how to keep her starting chain from twisting. Lol, she always managed to get it so twisted!
I love love love EFA yarns! I’m so glad that I discovered your website when I started teaching myself to knit a little over a year ago! Knitting and crocheting are my two favorite pastimes right now and I would love to win your monthly giveaway! I rarely win anything though so I’ll busy sit here drooling over all the fabulous yarns!
My favorite crafting memory is of the last few things I finished! I loved working on, and finishing (YAY!), the Adalia shawl. It was such a pleasure to work on! I’ve also finished a couple of blankets lately. Any time I’m crocheting, I’m happy!
My favorite crafting memories are meeting with my best friend, Susan, to craft together — and we still do it almost every week!
One of my fav memories is sitting together with my women’s group, some of us knitting, some spinning and some crocheting. Altogether in one place…so warm and peaceful
My favorite crafting memory is a dress I hand knitted with cables.
A lot of memories came to mind when I focused on finding a favorite….I don’t think I have a specific favorite incident, but most of my memories were from different fabric crafts through 4-H and learning to sew. My mom was one of the sewing instructors for our 4-H group when in the 70’s and 80s….This time of year, I remember taking Christmas-colored scrap fabric in small random shapes and using a butter knife to push the edges into a Styrofoam ball to give it a padded patchwork look and then run a string through them for tree ornaments.
These yarns are gorgeous! I just got a skein of the Pearlescent Fingering and it is wonderful! Can’t wait to pick out a pattern for it.
My favorite crafting memories are made every summer. Although I haven’t been able to get my two daughters interested in knitting, my two nieces both knit. About 12 years ago, we invited my sister and one of her daughters to join us on our beach vacation. My niece loved it so much that she decided they wanted their whole family to join our family tradition of a beach vacation every summer. Unfortunately, my sister didn’t live to come to another beach vacation, but two of her daughters (and sometimes the third) have vacationed with us every summer since. I absolutely love being on the deck or on the beach, enjoying the ocean while knitting with my two nieces, comparing projects and anticipated projects, and making our annual visit to the Salty Sheep yarn store. Lots of dreaming, planning, and making going on!
Teaching my nephew how to knit. Then seeing the excitement in his eyes as his potholder came together!
My favorite crafting memories are learning to sew from my Grandma, making diner waitress style aprons and learning to crochet from my Mom, making balls that would become clowns or animals and squares that would become afghans.
I don’t really have a favorite crafting memory. I just started knitting about a moth ago and seem to be progressing smoothly. My Mom (left handed) taught me to crochet right handed when I was about 12 yrs. old. The memory that stands out the most is crocheting a shell stitch afghan for my Grandma. She really loved it and that made me happy. My Mom sent it to me when she passed, about 20 yrs. ago, and I still have it to this day.
Once again, you’ve chosen such a lovely grouping of colours….thank you for your generosity. While this isn’t my first crafting memory (been crafting me whole life) but it is one of the memories I still cherish. For my parents 50th wedding anniversary, my two sisters & I collaborated on a large cross-stitch of the Buchart Gardens sunken garden where my parents spent many a night stroll as they honeymooned in a cottage just outside the grounds. Edi & I did the stitching & Ruth matted & framed it……turned out fantastic, parents & sisters mighty pleased. When I think about great crafting memories, they all seem to be gifts for others which does my soul good. Blessings to you, Chandi🥰
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My favorite crafting memory is a recent one. The Journey Shawl was the most intricate project I have ever undertaken. It took me several months (!) to complete. The satisfaction when it came off the needles was only surpassed by the delight when I took it off the blocking board and wore it for the first time.. Such a sense of gratification!
My favorite crafting memory is when my grandmother tried to teach me to knit. I was a really bad student, but I recently started crocheting and it reminded me of her 🙂
Just one? I have hundreds of “favorite” crafting memories—all involving other women. My grandma, several of my mom’s co-workers, Campfire Girls, a boyfriend’s mom, my stitch ‘n’ b—- crews from many different jobs, my stepmother—all nurtured my craftier side and deserve a “favorite.” But I’m going to nominate my most recent favorite memory. My husband passed away in July, and I started a blog called The Widow’s Peek (a peek into the life of a recent widow). In one of my blog posts, I mentioned that I suddenly realized one Friday that I no longer had a “date night.” We rarely did anything special, but Fridays were *our* day, and we rarely made plans with others—and none that would require us to be separated. One of my crochet friends read the blog post and said, “Why don’t we start a crochet date night?” And that’s what we did—every other Friday, she and I get together to crochet and chat. There are three other women who drift in and out depending on availability, and there are more who might enjoy joining us in time. I now look forward to Friday instead of dreading it. Crafters are a special bunch. <3
💕 They really are! 💕 Sending love, Patty!
My favorite memory is my grandmother teaching me to crochet.
Beautiful yarn 🧶…The day I completed my first kink size blanket!!
My favorite crafting memory is when my husband came up to me and asked me to teach him how to knit. I took some Tim and a couple restarts, but he knit himself a scarf! Of course, he hasn’t done anything since then, but it was still really nice that he took interest in it and wanted to try for himself.
Folks, I can spell and Chandi, I am so sorry about your name! You’d think by now spell checker would have ALL my words down pat! The above post should have : at Middle Schools it varies across the area if they go to 8th grade or 9th grade. So it should’ve had the word “housed!” Also RAMBO was a SUFFOLK sheep, the ones you see mostly in 4H, white body and black face. Then next; “Then the Illustration!” AND finally: “It was time for BJ to do his magic!”
I’m so sorry for all the errors;( OH, I STILL HAVE THAT PRECIOUS BOOK! But none of us need to read it to tell the story!! HA!!
Thanks, Shelly Calvert
We were always crafting growing up. Everything from jewelry making to cross stitch and embroidery.
simply lovely! these will make wonderful gifts!
My favorite crafting memory is of watching my grandma knit and crochet when I was little. I just wish I had gotten a chance to learn from her before she passed away. I learned watching Marley Bird videos.
My favorite crafting moments is making something for my kids and they really like/enjoy it!
My favorite crafting memory was when my Mom taught me how to use a loom to make potholders! I was about 4 or 5 years old. Hope to be able to use your gorgeous yarn one day!
My favorite moment, the happy face from my grandchild when I give her the fair isle cardigan I knitfor here.
That big smile and the hugs she give me, I will never forget.
Love, Marga
One of my favourite crafting memories would have to be the time I spent with my maternal grandmother learning to crochet the only afghan pattern she knew and one I’d been fascinated by since I was just a child. I was about maybe 17 at the time. It meant a half hour drive to and from her house plus the time spent with her learning. I’ve since made afghans using “Grammy’s pattern” for half of my nieces and nephews. Said afghan is on my bed right now and is my favourite of all the ones I’ve made. My grandmother passed away six weeks after my 19th birthday very unexpectedly. When she died she was wrapped up in an afghan I had made for her just months before for her birthday. It was returned to me and has become part of my special memories.
If I wasn’t so broke I would be buying this yarn in every color. I love the newsletter I get that show cases yarn and projects to create.
Favourite crafting memory: staying with my grandparents in England one summer and teaching myself to crochet. My grandmother had lots of yarn to practice on.
Gorgeous yarn colours again this month. Thank you for these giveaways each month. Now if I could just win one! 😂
It’s hard to pick a favourite but probably being five and my Nanny setting me up with yarn and dpns (!) because I wanted to knit like her. Little did she know a lifelong passion had begun 🙂
I love your yarns! Just recently ordered an “Ooopsy” Raven. The color was gorgeous and while I’m not sure what I’ll use it for, it will get used for something beautiful.
I remember my mother teaching me to embroider small samplers as a child and then how to sew doll clothes! That started me on learning all types of fiber crafts throughout my life. Now I’m an avid crocheter! Can’t think of my life without it!
My crafting memory is the first time I knit a lace baby blanket!!! I gave it to a friend for her great granddaughter!!! It was presented to her at her baby shower. Everybody raved about how beautiful it came out. That is when I realized how much I had learned about knitting. It felt fabulous!!!! Every time I knit another baby blanket, I feel that feeling all over again!!!!!
Love your yarn!!!! Fantastic colors!!!
The first time crocheting something absolutely beautiful and discovering truly wonderful yarn that is not acrylic!
Favourite crafting memory would have to be scrapbooking the best vacation I ever had. I’m still work on it… but I don’t mind that it’s taking forever. Taking my time with it makes me relive it longer… =] Love the yarn you put into this giveaway, beautiful!
My favorite crafting memory is creating my senior prom dress with my mom! It took a few months, and going strapless was NOT a good idea, but I still love it to this day!
One of my recent crafting memories is of my daugther and I dying yarn together. It was my first dying experience and it was fun having her with me to help out. The experience was great and it reinforced how talented professional dyers are.
This yarn is gorgeous! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity. My favorite crafting memory is making/crocheting many things for my children & their friends when they were younger. I’m 67 & my kids have kids whom i make for now.
I’ve enjoyed being the teacher at local libraries and helping kids learn to needlepoint and sew! It’s nice making sure the next generation has a skill and appreciation for handcrafts!
My favourite crafting memory is going with my close friend to learn crochet at this little workshop our college organised. We spent three days crocheting from morning till noon and I fell in love with every single aspect of crochet.
My favorite crafting memory is finishing my first pair of socks. I only knew how to knit and pearl when I started and at the end I learned turkish cast-on, magic-loop, short-rows, increasing\deacreasing. I had to frog it three times but at the end I was so proud of myself.
My favorite memory was recently when I made a blanket for my son. I had not crocheted any big projects in a while and he is 14 and almost 6 feet tall. I wanted to make a blanket that was big enough for him. He had no idea it was for him. I would crochet and when he asked me how could I do it that long, I would tell him every stitch was made with love and that I would also pray for the person getting the present. He thought it was his Dad but His Dad and I would just smile at each other. It was originally supposed to be for Christmas but I could not wait to give it to him. He was over the moon and so touched that I made it for him and sleeps under it every night and sometimes brings it to his recliner and covers up in it.
My favorite crafting memory is learning to crochet from my grandmother.
My favorite crafting memory is finishing my Celestarium shawl.
My fondest memory is crocheting with my neighbor. She taught me to explore other stitches, and to just have fun.
This is a tough one, I have sooooo many favourite memories. But the one that stands out the most is 6yr old Me, sitting under a big tree in the garden, on a huge old blanket on the ground, on the farm where we stayed for a while, with the ladies who worked on the farm, teaching me how to crochet – with plastic shopping bags cut into strips. We were all pretty poor, so plastic bags were turned into plarn and old sheets and and any pieces of fabric were cut or torn into strips for yarn for crocheting and the better, bigger pieces used for cloth to embroider on.
I had a Fisher-Price loom as a kid! I loved that loom and my favorite crafting memories are making things on it. I think it must have gotten thrown out when my parents moved, which I am super bummed about because I would so have kept that for my kids, and they don’t seem to make it anymore.
Learning how to crochet with my mom is my fondest crafting memory. My grandmother passed before she taught me how to knit, so I cherish the opportunity to learn from my mom. She crocheted twin sized blankets for all of her six children. It was great fun to go to the store and match up colors to personalize each blanket. It was during one of these trips that I found a skein that I just fell in love with. I begged (though it didn’t take much) and later that weekend, my mom and I sat down as she described the process of chaining up. My newfound hobby sparked interest in my four younger siblings who all demanded an opportunity to sit on mom’s lap and chain away. Soon enough we were all hard at work making our own scarf creations.
Learning how to sew for the first time, with the help of my mother! She’s a fantastic seamstress. She’s taught me so much.
My favorite crafting memory is when my older brother taught me the very basics about crochet… I will always treasure that he took the time and had the patients to teach me about crochet. This is a mountain of luscious and incredibly beautiful yarn!!! The winner of this will be over the moon with all of that fabulous yarn to create unique and stunning items!!
Good luck everyone💐 my favorite crafting memory was the moment I decided to buy knitting needles and teach myself how to knit that was six years ago and also the day I decided to buy indie yarn exclusively made by female owned businesses, thanks Maya @MayaLunaCorazon for introducing me to Chandi’s yarn porn😆 🌸
My most favourite memory is when I went to my first yarn festival 4 years ago and that led to me joining a Guild and since then I have rekindled my love of crafting and learnt to spin yarn and never looked back.
Great topic and happy that I can take part.
Good luck to all the yarn lovers😀
Hi 🤗
Thank you for this fantastic and luscious yarns!
My favorite crafting memory was seeing during a party a baby wearing something I’ve knitted them as a gift.
With this giveaway yarn a gifts for someone will be very luxurious!
My favorite crafting moment was when I learned to knit socks. I just couldn’t quite wrap my head around how they would come out like they do. I was still a fairly new knitter so I wasn’t sure how the heel would come out, with the heel? It was fun and addict! Thank uj uhh8+09
Favorite crafting memory…
Knitting peacefully without any goals and enjoing evreu stich.
My most treasured crafting memory was going to one of dad’s painting classes he was taking and doing a painting beside him.
Wind forward to years with my own kids. The best crafting memory with them was doing lapidary together as part of their home education.
thank you for your generosity yet again, but thank you also for the monthly reflection from your question. Many a time they bring to the fore the most special moments. xo
My favorite crafting memory was teaching my daughter how to knit. It makes me so happy to see her working hard at something and squealing with excitement after finishing only a row or two.
I just wanted to pop in here really to say thank you for your emails. They are so positive and there is power in spreading joy. It’s literally the bright spot in my week.