Yarn Bombing is a global fiber art movement that transforms public spaces through knitted and crocheted installations. While the term emerged in 2005 with Magda Sayeg and Knitta Please, the act itself predates the name, with earlier artists using fiber in public and environmental contexts. Over time, yarn bombing evolved from small “micro-tagging” interventions to large-scale installations, including iconic works like the Wall Street Bull and international community projects. Artists like Lauren O’Farrell expanded the practice into narrative storytelling, while Stephen Duneier brought it into wilderness spaces through temporary, permitted installations. Today, yarn bombing continues to function as art, protest, and public expression—demonstrating the power of fiber to reshape how we see the world.

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Music by Dmitry Taras | https://pixabay.com/users/soundgallerybydmitrytaras-11640913/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=500170

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Did crochet almost get standardized in 1911? Discover the “Council of Brussels” and why U.S. vs U.K. stitch terms split and confuse crocheters to this day.

In this episode of Exploration Crochet, we dive into the forgotten story of a 1911 international effort to standardize crochet terminology. Known as the Council of Brussels, this gathering of pattern writers, teachers, and textile thinkers set out to unify how crochet stitches were named across countries.

But what started as a push for clarity quickly unraveled into debate—specifically over one deceptively simple question: should a stitch be named for how it looks… or how it’s made?

LINKS |

4126Edition-Brussels.com

ExplorationCrochet.com

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Alexander's Ragtime Band - Early Intermediate Piano Solo

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Who made the rules that help modern crochet make sense? In this episode of Exploration Crochet, ReRe explores the history of the Craft Yarn Council of America and its role in shaping modern crochet. Founded in 1981, the CYC was created by the yarn industry to standardize communication, improve education, and support the growing yarn-craft market. The episode explains how the Council influenced crochet through the Standard Yarn Weight System, hook and label conventions, and the wider use of standardized crochet chart symbols. It also examines the CYC’s role in teaching, promotion, and industry support, including its connection to the Crochet Guild of America and Warm Up America! This episode reveals how one industry organization helped make crochet easier to publish, teach, learn, and understand across modern American craft culture.

LINKS |

*FREE* Reading Basic Crochet Charts Cheat Sheet | https://yarnoverhook.com/crochet-stitches

Craft Yarn Council | craftyarncouncil.com

Crochet Guild of America | crochet.org

SOUND ATTRIBUTION |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Jazz Lounge Elevator Music by Mykola Odnoroh - | https://pixabay.com/users/ikoliks_aj-48415707/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=332339

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Explore the fascinating history, craft, cultural significance, and technical brilliance of Irish Crochet Lace - one of the most beautiful and misunderstood traditions in crochet history. Host ReRe breaks down the unique construction method of separate motifs joined by intricate mesh. The episode traces how Irish crochet spread through organized teaching, print culture, women’s labor, and regional traditions. We also delve into the influence of pioneers like Nano Nagle and Mlle. Riego de la Blanchardière, as well as the world of regional and family motifs. Learn why Irish Crochet is considered true textile engineering and a living record of Irish resilience.

LINKS |

CrochetPodcast.com | Crochet People pt. 1: Mademoiselle Eleonore Riego de la Branchardière

Ulster Folk Museum | https://www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/stories/lacemaking

Lacis Museum of Lac and Textiles | Irish Crochet Lace: 150 Years of a Tradition

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

The Girl from Ireland - https://pixabay.com/music/folk-the-girl-from-ireland-177450/

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

In this episode of Exploration Crochet, ReRe examines the long and influential relationship between crochet and cotton, showing how cotton helped define the craft’s visual identity, accessibility, and historical reach. The episode explores why cotton worked so well for crochet, especially in lace, thread work, and household textiles. ReRe also highlights the importance of Irish crochet, and the chemical revolution of mercerization. And finally, the episode addresses the complex ethics of the global cotton trade and its impact on the craft's accessibility including the ethical complexities that still follow the fiber choice today.

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major Op. 18 4th Movement

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

In March Magic: The History of National Crochet Month, ReRe explores the origins and meaning of National Crochet Month through the lens of crochet history, community, and cultural visibility. The episode explains how National Crochet Month developed from National Crochet Week and why March became an important time for crochet education, advocacy, and public celebration. ReRe breaks down what National Crochet Month is and is not, including common myths about whether there is one “right” way to celebrate or whether the month is only about shopping and promotions. The episode also highlights how crocheters celebrate in real life through teaching, crochet-a-longs, guild events, charity makes, and public advocacy for crochet as a technical and artistic craft. This episode offers a thoughtful, empowering look at National Crochet Month as both a celebration and a living historical record of modern crochet culture.

LINKS |

National Crochet Month | https://nationalcrochetmonth.com

2026 New Year, New Blanket Charity CAL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPHDi4h-nGwvt0K0JgbrvgmPrfs1j6U_4

Exploration Crochet Substack | ExplorationCrochet.com

SOUND ATTRIBUTION |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Music by Viacheslav Starostin | https://pixabay.com/users/viacheslavstarostin-50153119/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=382067

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Explore the cultural and economic history of the Local Yarn Shop (LYS) in this episode of Exploration Crochet. Host ReRe traces the evolution of yarn retail from 19th-century general stores to modern-day community "sanctuaries." Learn about historical landmarks like Heindselman’s and School Products NYC while discovering how the 1970s craft revival reshaped our hobby. Today, the crochet-friendly LYS functions as a vital “Third Place,” preserving fiber literacy, mentorship, and intergenerational craft traditions. Discover why supporting your local shop is an essential part of the future of the crochet community.

If crochet is a chain of events…the yarn shop should be one of its strongest links.

Colossal Yarn Crawl of 2026 | crochetyarncrawl.com

Shop links |

Yarn Shoppe Denver | https://yarnshoppedenver.com/

Fibre Space | https://fibrespace.com/

Yarning Fiber Arts | https://yarningfiberarts.com/

Gauge Yarn | https://www.gaugeyarn.com/

World Yarns | https://worldyarns.com/

The Quilted Skein | https://thequiltedskein.com/

Scout & Skein | https://scoutandskein.com/

The Quarter Stitch | https://www.quarterstitch.com/

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Music by Music Word – Spring | https://pixabay.com/users/musicword-39191707/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=193127

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

It’s never "just a hook." In this episode, we dive deep into the material science and global chaos of the crochet hook’s evolution. We explore how a simple notched stick transformed into a $500 luxury item. Crochet hooks are design history in your hand, shaped by materials science, industrial manufacturing, and maker culture. In this episode of Exploration Crochet, ReRe traces hook evolution to innovations that solved the “spinning” problem and you’ll hear how hook sizing became a global comedy routine - with millimeters becoming the most reliable modern anchor. The story then jumps to the early 20th century, when crochet shifted from lace to garments and aluminum became the lightweight “space-age” hook material for bigger yarns. Rounding out the episode, we'll take a look at WWII “blackout” hooks, modern ergonomic grips, and today’s luxury hook culture.

Links |

Conversion Chart: https://explorationcrochet.com/p/yarn-weight-conversion-chart

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Steel Drums 90bpm Key of A.mp3 by AjubaMusic -- https://freesound.org/s/320806/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Mosaic crochet is one of modern crochet’s most "how-is-that-possible" looks. Mosaic is a bold, graphic colorwork technique that seems impossibly complex, yet is built on a simple rule: one color per row.

In this episode of Exploration Crochet, ReRe traces mosaic’s story from 1970s mosaic knitting into crochet’s evolving toolkit. We’ll highlight the contributions of crochet legend Lily Chin and modern designer Tinna Thórudóttir Thorvaldar. You’ll learn how it moved from experimentation to published instruction, then exploded in popularity through charts, tutorials, and crochet-alongs in the 2010s.

We’ll break down the two main types—Inset mosaic (often lighter with fewer ends) and Overlay mosaic (crisp, structured, and famously end-heavy). And lastly, explore why these methods are the ultimate high-payoff project for the modern maker.

Links |

Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar | https://www.youtube.com/@TinnaThorudottirThorvaldar

Sound Attribution |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Music by ArtManzh https://pixabay.com/users/artmanzh-3855363/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=330440

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

Discover the hidden history of George Washington Carver’s life as a prolific fiber artist and crocheter. While famous for his agricultural breakthroughs at Tuskegee University, Carver was a master of domestic arts who dyed his own threads using local Alabama clay and plant life. This episode of Exploration Crochet explores how his artistic training at Simpson College informed his world-renowned scientific career. We examine archival evidence, including rare 1937 footage of Carver crocheting, to reveal a man whose curiosity had no boundaries. Join ReRe to see why TIME magazine dubbed Carver the "Black Leonardo".

Edgar A Guest – Equipment excerpt –

“Courage must come from the soul within

The man must furnish the will to win.

So figure it out for yourself, my lad

You were born with all that the great have had.

With your equipment they all began

Get hold of yourself and say “I can””

Crochet Sampler: Tuskegee - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Carvers-crochet-samples-Tuskegee-Institute-National-Historic-Site-Image-by-Curtis_fig3_283353138

TIME 1941 – “Black Leonardo” https://time.com/archive/6603680/art-black-leonardo/

Color film of Professor Carver - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_yn6Qz81Y8&t=1s

The Henry Ford Museum: What if an Artist Becomes a Scientist - https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/what-if/george-washington-carver

GWC Recites “Equipment” - https://archive.tuskegee.edu/repository/digital-collection/audio-collections/george-washington-carver/george-washington-carver-recites-poem-1942/

PBS – George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Life - https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/booker-t-washington-invites-carver-tuskegee-video/george-washington-carver-an-uncommon-life/

Sound Attributions |

YOH Tune | https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile162.html

Duke Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy (1927)

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🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📅 Explore Crochet Events

https://crochetevents.com

📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter

https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/

Play Name That Stitch 🎮

https://namethatstitch.com

Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶

https://yarnoverhook.com/social-media-for-crochet/

Watch on YouTube 📹

https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial

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ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK

Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources.

Built by makers, for makers. 🧶

🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com

Exploration Crochet is a podcast hosted by ReRe and produced by Yarn Over Hook.

© 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.