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Winners Announced!
First off, thanks to everyone who made the 2nd birthday of Pulling at Strings so fun. I cannot wait for next year’s party. Now, its late and I have to be up early, so I am just going to post the winners For the $25GC, everyone who made a purchase during October and November were [...]
Last Day to get Grand Prize Entries!
Today is the last day of our 2yr Birthday Celebration, but it’s not too late to get entries for our grand prize drawing. Just hop on over to our flickr project gallery and upload your finished projects. Remember these can be crafted (spun, felted, woven, knit, crochet, etc) from patterns OR from yarn and fiber [...]
Introducing the 2012 Pulling at Strings Club
Changes are in the air! For the 2012 year, the clubs are going through some exciting new changes for our 2012 music themed club – “Pumped Up Knits.” So what’s new: The colorways each month will be limited editions, already dyed and ready to ship. While this means that the number of skeins and yarns [...]
PRIZE POST – cause everyone likes to win things
In honor of being in business for 2 years, Pulling at Strings is running 2 contests, both of which are drawings that end on November 30th, 2011. 1. The first contest is open to ANYONE who purchased an item from the store during the months of October and November. Doesn’t matter if it is a [...]
Friend Making Friday – Meet Colleen (aka My Mom!)
A while ago, Jennifer asked me to write something for her web page. I guess she figured since I am her mom, I might know a little about knitting. WRONG! I keep telling her it skips a generation, although I don’t think she believes me. I do not knit though my mother did try to [...]
Time to face the music
Dear Jenn, You have entirely way too many WIP’s right now. I mean I can understand 2 or 3, or maybe even 4; but when you run out of fingers counting WIP’s you have to acknowledge the fact that you indeed have a problem. I know its tempting looking around ravelry pressing the “hot right [...]
A Fairy “Tail” for Seamus
One of my best friend’s kids recently asked me why yarn is called yarn. After loads of historically intensive research, I came up *ahem* across this historical document (ie. completely made up story from my imagination,) of the origins of the word “yarn.” How Yarn Got Its Name Once upon a time there was [...]
Help! I can’t stop buying yarn!
Determined to finally come to terms with just exactly how much yarn I have accumulated in the 5yrs that I have been knitting I started the daunting task of entering in my Ravelry stash. My husband, being the good sport that he is, offered to take pictures of my stash so that I could eventually [...]
Colorway of the Week #8: BugSnugger’s Pulling at Strings
Pulling at Strings on Posh Light Fingering/Lace Diane of BugSnugger is a good friend and an amazing dyer. When she showed me her Pulling at Strings colorway it was love at first sight. I guess that’s not a surprise since it is based off of the colors in my website and logo, but really, she [...]
Tutorial Tuesday! – Sheeeeeeep!
Many of you have expressed interest in learning how to embroider little lambs like this little cutie Chatongris’ Emma Tunic Embroidering this little lambie is actually pretty simple. You will need: to know how to make a french knot, chain stitch, and how to duplicate stitch. a tapestry needle a fluffy yarn for the wool (preferably [...]
