Yarn Tomato http://www.yarntomato.com Just a homegrown tomato talking about crochet Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Amy of Crochetville at CGOA Chain Link http://www.yarntomato.com/2008/07/amy-of-crochetville-at-cgoa-chain-link/ http://www.yarntomato.com/2008/07/amy-of-crochetville-at-cgoa-chain-link/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:18:54 +0000 Donna http://www.yarntomato.com/?p=410 Amy at my house My business partner, Amy, is on her way to the CGOA Chain Link Conference today. Amy will be the speaker tomorrow at the CGOA Professional Development Day Luncheon. She’ll be speaking about how Crochetville can be beneficial to you as a professional and the ways you can participate in the Crochetville community. She will also touch on other online resources for crochet professionals.

I’m so excited! I wish I could be there. I hope all of you have a great time and I’m looking forward to reading about your crochet and fiber adventures!

The Summer Knit & Crochet Show is being held at the Radisson Hotel Center of New Hampshire in Manchester, New Hampshire from July 25-27, 2008.

The Show is the Crochet Guild of America’s Annual Chain Link Conference and The Knitting Guild Association’s Regional Conference.

You can read more about it at http://www.knitandcrochetshow.com/summershow.asp

]]> http://www.yarntomato.com/2008/07/amy-of-crochetville-at-cgoa-chain-link/feed/ My Adjustable Ring Tutorial: Featured in Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter http://www.yarntomato.com/2008/07/my-adjustable-ring-tutorial-featured-in-yarn-can-make-this-newsletter/ http://www.yarntomato.com/2008/07/my-adjustable-ring-tutorial-featured-in-yarn-can-make-this-newsletter/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:31:57 +0000 Donna http://www.yarntomato.com/?p=409 :: Short Summary :: My tutorial, The Magic Adjustable Ring: A Better Way to Begin Crochet in the Round, was featured in the first issue of the Yarn Can Make This! newsletter from YouCanMakeThis.com. The guest author of the issue, Jennifer of Jaybird Designs, asked me if she could include it as her favorite tip/trick. My tutorial was first published in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of the online magazine, Crochet Me. ::]]> Part of my Magic Adjustable Ring Tutorial in Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter When Jennifer of Jaybird Designs e-mailed asking to include my adjustable ring tutorial as her favorite tip/trick in a newsletter she was guest authoring, I was flattered and my answer was, “Absolutely!” The adjustable ring is a method of beginning crochet in the round so that the starting tail can be used to pull the center hole tightly closed (or pulled to leave an opening of any size you want). I’m as thrilled about this technique now as I was the day I discovered it four years ago. I wanted to grab every crocheter I could find and say, “Do you know about this? You need to know about this!” And so I submitted it to the then online magazine (since turned online community), Crochet Me, and it was published in the December 2004/January 2005 issue. I titled it The Magic Adjustable Ring: A Better Way to Begin Crochet in the Round because to me, it really was magic, changing my whole outlook on crocheting anything that started as a circle.

Beginning of July 2008 Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter The newsletter Jennifer guest authored this month (July 2008) was Yarn Can Make This! from the web site YouCanMakeThis.com. Although the web site recently turned two years old, this was the first issue of Yarn Can Make This!, a newcomer in addition to their other two newsletters, You Can Make This! and You Can Sew This! If you’re a subscriber to the newsletter, I hope you enjoyed my adjustable ring tutorial! If you’re not (yet!), you can see the archived issue online.

Two other methods of forming a ring include joining a chain and crocheting into the first chain (see my tutorial). These have their uses, of course, but I hope some day all crocheters will have the adjustable ring in their repertoire. I include it in nearly every round pattern I design for publication, hoping the editor will have it illustrated for the the how-to section of the book.* I’m on a mission, folks! ;-)

*One of the places you can see the adjustable ring illustrated is in Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution by Kim Werker (page 130). My design in that book is the Circle Rug, made of 60 circle motifs joined in a unique and sturdy fashion (page 125).

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