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Both office and school buildings as well as local supermarket shelves are empty. We touch elbows instead of shaking hands and keep 1.5 meters distance between us. The sentence ‘I’m just Skyping with Grandpa’ is now a common refrain and the term ‘work-days’ has been replaced by ‘home-days’. There is no way around it anymore, the Coronavirus is well and truly among us and is not going away any time ...

One of the most frequently asked questions at Yarnplaza is: “How do I adjust a pattern to my measurements?”. If you are going to put so much love and energy into knitting or crocheting a new piece of clothing, you naturally want it to fit perfectly. But where do you even begin with adjusting a pattern? Let us delve into this question and take you through it....

 Are you ready for a new knitting or crochet challenge and do you want to make something that you absolutely love? Then design your own pattern! How amazing would it be to see something completely new emerge from your very own hands? We hear you thinking: but how? How do I do that? We asked our designers Annemarie and Monique for some tips and tricks....

Crochet hooks are essential tools for your favorite hobby (CROCHETING!), so at the very least they deserve a safe and happy place to live! Let us inspire you with some great ideas for storing your crochet hooks. We even have 2 free patterns to share with you so you can crochet your very own crochet hook storage....

Learn to knit socks with our free sock knitting course. Originally released as a 7-week long Knit Along, we guided you through all the basic techniques needed to knit a sock. Each week we published part of the pattern online, along with a video tutorial. They all remain online, so you can knit along at your own pace. And the best bit? Participating is free!...

The Dream Blanket 4.0 CAL/KAL is just around the corner! This fabulous blanket is a real eye-catcher with plenty of color combinations to choose from and a whole range of different stitches to challenge yourself with. And even better, this time around the Dream Blanket 4.0 is available in both knitted and crocheted versions! We sat down with the designers of the Dream Blanket 4.0, Monique and Jola...