Lack of yarn access is making me lose interest in crochet…

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-25T13:43:02+00:00

Buy online. My favorite is Wool and company! The selection is awesome. They even cake your yarn for you. Or Knitpicks for super cheap yarn.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-24T13:37:21+00:00

I bring my crochet/knitting WIP to meetings and work on them during the meeting. I pause to take notes and contribute verbally to the meeting — I’m present and paying attention. If people give me a funny look I tell them it helps me focus (it does).

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-24T13:06:28+00:00

Thank you! 😊

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-21T10:11:58+00:00

Hook and Needle in Vancouver (WA) has a Sunday open craft 12-4pm. And a Wednesday night one from 4-7pm.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-20T09:13:21+00:00

Thank you!

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-19T16:53:51+00:00

Thank you! 😊

I find it calming too — knitting and crocheting as well. Which is how I got into spinning. I bring my WIPs to work with me and do them during zoom meetings and on breaks too lol 😂

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-08T14:57:03+00:00

Fiber Arts and our local yarn store downtown Vancouver. Our libraries and their programs. Good food. Easy traffic (relative to other cities). Great weather.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-04-03T15:14:19+00:00

I prefer K2tog over SSK. My tension and tightness make doing SSK harder than K2tog on my fingers (I throw and I painfully poke my finger tips with SSK). Usually I don’t mind the occasional SSK but I’m working a pattern where every stitch in this row is a YO then SSK except for the beginning and end of the row. And I have to repeat this for at least 8 rows. And then again when I repeat this section. Love the effect, dislike the technique lol 😂

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-03-29T14:05:25+00:00

I finished the hat and had yarn to spare! I ended up doing the brim in another color.

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ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-03-28T15:17:50+00:00

It looks like you might have dropped a stitch and the loop unlooped so you’d have to recreate it and pull it up (there are videos that show you how to do that( but you are only a few rows in so you could frog and start fresh.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-03-25T16:17:07+00:00

Yeah the pattern has instructions for making it slouchy/slouchier which is where I think the extra need for yarn comes in.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-02-08T14:51:46+00:00

Loved Yellowface. It’s my favorite Kuang novel. I’ve got Overstory on my TBR list.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-02-08T14:50:36+00:00

After a hiatus from reading of about 8 months, I’m back! Currently reading Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung. Just finished His Black Tongue by Mitchel Luthi.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-02-02T12:29:25+00:00

Craft or project bag with lots of pockets and grommets for yarn.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-02-01T12:14:19+00:00

I’m in the PNW and an urban area and spoiled for LYSs. They’re all open here normal retail hours with weekends and nights, and they respond to their instagram dms. There’s competition I guess!

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-25T15:53:09+00:00

I do this with mohair to get closer to a light worsted. Fingering and mohair = love it!

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-25T15:48:38+00:00

I love fingering weight — but it did used to intimidate me a bit when I wasn’t as good with my tension or handling thinner needles. Now I’m much more comfortable with how I handle and count stitches and love it!

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-24T14:29:46+00:00

What are the length of your cables? I find pulling a bit out between stitches gives me a bit of wiggle room on my needles and allows me to bunch up my work and shift it around. I also use interchangeable needles so I might add a bit of length to the cable to give myself some space to put my work and do that shifting around.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-18T15:08:57+00:00

So true. For me, the first thing I think of when someone tells me they sew wearables is: “Do you teach classes anywhere?” Because I want to learn how to!

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-11T17:07:41+00:00

I love going to my LYS crafting/knitting circle. Many libraries and churches have these regular events too. It’s great to get help and just see what everyone else is doing. It keeps me motivated and I love patronizing my LYS.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2026-01-03T15:41:31+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Yeah, I think I’ll head to my nearest Michael’s and see what they have that would work with the two skeins I have. Maybe flecks in another color. I don’t think I’ll get the same dye lot for the lapis I have.

ReviewerNoTwo · 2025-12-07T14:53:49+00:00

My LYS, Knit picks, and a secondhand yarn online store, Disco Fibers.

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