By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Hi, my channel is about crochet, knitting, yarn, patterns and tutorials for anything from making stitch graphs/charts for crochet to Christmas wall hangings and learning to knit.
Join me as I knit and crochet my way through life. I'm a 56 (in 2024) year old mother of 2 adult children, one grandson and 2 fur babies. Maggy and Joey are the name of my 2 tuxedo cats who often make cameos in my videos lol.
I'm currently working on 2 Subscriber Scrap Blankets, one is knitted, the other crocheted. How does that work? I add 1 new row to each blanket for every 5 new subscribers who hit that subscribe button. Theresa from Critter Crochet gave me permission to 'steal' her idea, very kind, brilliant idea it is too!. Help her get to her goal of 2k! So, until I hit 1000 I will add a new row for every 5 new subscribers to my crocheted subscribers scrap blanket and will take my knitted blanket to 1500 subscribers. Be part of the process by hitting that button.
Thanks.




By Hook or By Needles - Sam

New Channel name coming in the New Year (maybe before?) and a new logo... what do you all think?
New channel name will be
Sam's Yarn Basket
and logo will be .....

3 days ago | [YT] | 21

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Hello my lovelies, if you love project bags with a difference **spoiler alert - some are "naughty" - so please dont go and watch if you are offended by swear words or cartoon depictions of snowmen "making" new snowmen

Etsy shop for 'naughty knitting sacks'
www.etsy.com/au/shop/naughtyknittingsacks?ref=own_…

..... BUT she does make 'nice' ones also

Etsy shop for 'the fuzzy sheep'
www.etsy.com/au/shop/naughtyknittingsacks?ref=own_…

She is truly a very lovely person and is definitely worth a watch.

Thanks all, Sam.

https://youtu.be/qT4Wz8XSfOk

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Auction of Furls AND other hooks currently occurring on https://youtu.be/i3NqLHnxKhw

Dont miss out

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

This is a recent publication - my daughter is H.J. Whitfield listed second under "publication" at the bottom of the article.

This is ground breaking amazing news in the research world.

"A team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (thats where my daughter is), Great Ormond Street Hospital, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University College London, and their collaborators mapped the origins of T-cell leukaemia. They identified a new subtype of cancerous T-cells that does not respond to current treatments and could be responsible for the high mortality in this type of childhood cancer."

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/mystery-of-treatment-re…

4 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 16

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Am desperately trying to get into the Christmas mood and I saw this... who doesnt love Wallace and Grommet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6xp...

1 month ago | [YT] | 11

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Week 5 completed! Check it out

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Ever wondered how self striping patterned print yarn is made?
https://youtu.be/wwRAm7jkDWw

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Caption this... just for fun :-)

1 month ago | [YT] | 8

By Hook or By Needles - Sam

Yarn chicken... take a guess.
Will I make it? I need to complete from the right of screen (blue stitch marker), to the left of screen (orange marker)... markers *just* visible

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