BearyAnn’s WebYarn

I have started my notebook at ravelry dot com. You can find me there now as “BearyAnn”.  Ravelry is an exciting new website for knitters, crocheters, spinners and designers.  Jess and Casey have done an excellent job building this site. I am just now starting to fill in my “notebook”. Here a pattern can be [...]

I just signed up for the second annual  Knit-Out  at the Mall of America.  Got my reservations for the Country Inns and Suites and hope to teach knitting and or crocheting for a session during the weekend. This FREE event looks like it will be a weekend filled with fun, fiber and fantastic events. Author Debbie Macomber and TV personality [...]

I posted earlier about fixing up a scarf, headband and gloves for a great niece and the fun way to give it. 
She has twin brother and sister who are now 3 and I made them each a scarf and gloves but I can’t just wrap them up. What kid wants to open a package and [...]

While browsing a local Walmart clearance aisle last week I found 2 skeins of Bernat Super Stripes bulky yarn. It is blue and black and it jumped into my cart. I wasn’t sure what to do with it but it certainly did not go to waste. This self striping yarn made 4 projects. I used [...]

I was reminded when I saw the knitting journal created and posted by Kathryn Ivy that several years I created a similar journal to keep records of my many teddy bears.
Now that I have started knitting some teddy bears I find I need to update my notebook.  So, for your personal pleasure (not to [...]

Any one who knows me becomes immediately aware of my love for teddy bears. Teddy bears of all kinds. Add that to my love for knitting and crocheting and crafting in general then you can imagine my excitement when I ran across this linking page at Knitting Pattern Central.  It is a list of links [...]

One of the comments made at our recent knitting class was “this is supposed to be relaxing??”.  I just received a newsletter from “Creative Knitting Magazine” with some information that sounded interesting. A study by the Harvard Medical School Mind/Body Institute showed that when knitting (or crocheting) a person’s heart rate and blood pressure can [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting Saundra Lunceford of Grassy Ridge Fiber Works at the Chautauqua in the Park festivities in Chillicothe, Missouri. She was offering demonstrations on a technique she calls “Crow-Stick Crocheting” using a double ended crochet hook carved from wood .  She had blankets, scarves and hats on display. I sat beside [...]