Local News: Seattle, WA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Crochet News Editors

News Widget

Display the Crochet news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Crochet News

News on Crochet continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

58 min ago | Examiner.com

Multiple exhibits open at CAFAM

May 26 is a busy weekend for the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. The museum will debut three exhibitions: CAFAM Granny Squared - Yarn Bombing Los Angeles will cover the museum in crocheted granny squares.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, African-American

5 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Free crochet sun hat patterns

Be safe this summer and keep the sun out of your eyes and off of your face by crocheting a sun hat for yourself and the kids.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

6 hrs ago | ThinkGeek

Now recruiting volunteers for Timmy's Costuming Corps

Calling all knitters, crocheters, stitchers, needle-and-threaders, staplers, paste-eaters, hot gluers, and bedazzlers to join Timmy's Volunteer Costume Corps! Timmy has no idea what to wear to SDCC in late July and would appreciate you helping a naked monkey out.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

7 hrs ago | City Paper

Hyperbolic Crochet

It is rare, but not inconceivable, to encounter a tropical, underwater paradise in an art gallery in Baltimore.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Mathematics, Science, Activism, Cornell University, Global Warming

9 hrs ago | Newsday

Student 'yarn bombs' stone lion

A "beloved" stone lion used as a popular meeting place is being given a knit and crochet makeover for an A-level exam.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting

Tue May 21, 2013

The Ararat Advertiser

Rich history of art celebrated at Ararat gallery

The Ararat Regional Art Gallery this year marks 45 years as an important feature and attraction of the town and community.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

Daily Mail

Billboard Music Awards 2013: Miley Cyrus slips into a jewel encrusted crochet jumpsuit

But Miley Cyrus opted for more of an edgy look rather than sexy for her red carpet appearance at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night.

Comment?

Related Topix: Miley Cyrus, The Last Song, Life, Hobbies, Las Vegas, NV

Mon May 20, 2013

The Jersey Journal

Cable giant uses Hoboken wool shop in new promo campaign

Optimum has picked Hoboken's wool store Patricia's Yarns for a new media campaign to highlight how the Cable TV and internet company's products help small businesses.

Comment?

Related Topix: Hoboken, NJ, Small Business, Personal Finance, Life, Hobbies, Knitting

Zootoo

Knit One, Purr Two

Knitting and cats are so interwoven in clichA© and culture that we often see illustrations of yarn balls being batted by enthusiastic felines.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting

The Courier

Monday Night for the Master serves Russellville church, community

It's not Sunday, but a crowd has gathered at West Side Church of Christ. They have come to volunteer their time to serve people in need in the church, but also in the community - including the homeless.

Comment?

Related Topix: Russellville, AR, Life

Sun May 19, 2013

Fabsugar

50 Under $50 Ways to Top Off Your Summer Wardrobe

With warm weather comes the exciting opportunity to bare your arms - and we couldn't be more excited at the prospect of picking up some sweet new tops for the season ahead.

Comment?

Related Topix: Weather, Life, Hobbies

Herald Independent

Women package and ship love, stitch by stitch

Some ladies in the Fairfield community are leading the way when it comes to reaching out to needy children.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting, Kids, Family, Fairfield County, SC

Fri May 17, 2013

Denver Westword

The Crochet Coral Reef's Denver Satellite Reef grows at the Denver Art Museum

A work constantly in progress, the Crochet Coral Reef is an installation of ten textile pieces at the Denver Art Museum , part of its summer exhibition, Spun: Adventures In Textiles .

Comment?

Related Topix: Life

MLive.com

Crafting on the wild side: Lowell Arts! plans summer yarn bombing event

If you've been itching to take a walk on the rebellious side of crafting without fear of arrest, you might get your chance this summer in Lowell, where art lovers are inviting us to yarn bomb their town.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting

Examiner.com

Giant knitting needles and crochet hook to beat Guinness World Record

According to the Journal Gazette-Times Courier on May 16, the town of Casey, Ill.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, World Records, Knitting, Casey, IL

Thu May 16, 2013

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Things to do today: 05.16.13

KNIT/CROCHET CLASSES: Michaels, 4717 S. Padre Island Drive, will host the following classes with instructor Margaret Neu.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting, Aransas Pass, TX, Alice, TX

The Jersey Journal

Yarn bombing: The worldwide web of knit graffiti, from N.J. to Dubai

There may be nothing so analog as working with yarn - stitching and looping fibers by hand to create an interlocked network of fiber.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting, Explosion, Wyckoff, NJ, Canada, West Cape May, NJ, Entertainment

Times Herald-Record

In Stitches forming close-knit groups

Betty Diamond lives up to the name of her new Monroe store. She keeps all her customers "In Stitches" by providing classes and supplies for knitting, crochet and many other types of needlework.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Knitting

Wed May 15, 2013

Chicago Reader

Sighted: Moby-Dick-inspired fashion by Elizabeth Alice Crum

I smiled when I heard Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" blast through the speakers while I watched nautically inspired crochet work come down the runway at this year's School of the Art Institute spring student fashion show, the Walk .

Comment?

Related Topix: Drama Movies, Moby Dick, Adventure, Life, Hobbies, Chicago, IL

Lake County Examiner Online

A Call to Arms: Knitters, Crocheters, Sewers

Nearly three weeks ago, Lakeview 4-H Hooked on Crocheting Group of kids made 60 hats to act as gifts for the Lake County Libraries' Early Literacy Baby Showers.The Early Literacy Baby Showers is a program designed for babies who were born in the past year.

Comment?

Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Lakeview, OR, Family, Kids, Lake County, OR, Libraries, Christmas Valley, OR