 I use Google Reader to do this. Since I follow about 40 blogs it really helps that Google Reader organizes them all, lets me know when they've been updated and shows all the updated posts in the same window so that I don't need to open new windows and wait for the blog and pictures to load. I like to think of it as my own custom online magazine.
If you already have a Gmail account it's super easy (if you don't that too is super easy): For blogs that are hosted by Blogger its as easy as clicking on 'follow' on the upper right hand side of the blog (make sure you're signed in). Follow any blog by pressing the rss icon found at the right side of the url address bar. Then when it prompts you to subscribe using Google accept, and then click Google Reader. Any blog or website that you've added this way will show up on your Reader page. Some bloggers (like us) have put the rss button on the side bar of the blog too. So if you're ready to get started you might as well begin with the local yarn shop blogs. Here are their links, follow away. Baaad Anna's Maiwa Gina Browns Three Bags Full Urban Yarns   I love Jane Richmond's newest pattern Georgia. She used local yarn designer, Sweet Georgia Yarns' Tough Love Sock yarn for this elegant design. If you are a 'shop local' fanatic like I am this is the project for you.
You can buy Jane's pattern online at any of the following links http://janerichmond.blogspot.com/ http://www.etsy.com/shop/janerichmond http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/georgia-7 And Sweet Georgia Yarns here on their online shop or at the following brick and mortars in the Vancouver Area Baaad Anna's Three Bags Full Urban Yarns Black Sheep Yarns or if you are on the Island Knits by the Sea Mad about Ewe Fine Yarns or on the Sunshine Coast Unwind Knit and Fibre Lounge Wow, Felicia at Sweet Georgia is keeping busy these days. Luv, Janna |
About the Everlea Guide to Vancouver Yarn Hi, I'm Janna. I'm the proprietor, natural dyer and instructor at Everlea Yarn. I am a tapestry weaver, longtime knitter and 2013 graduate of Concordia University's Fibres and Material Practices program. I created Vancouver Yarn in 2008 as a space to hold as much of the textile awesomeness that I could find in and around Vancouver. Here on the VY blog I mostly share about local events, pattern releases as well as share Community Highlights. Do you have an event you'd like me to post? Simply email me at janna (at) everleayarn.ca Thank you, Janna Archives
July 2025
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Vancouver Yarn is a free resource which links you to local DIY textile shops and designers as well as artists and makers which are local to greater Vancouver BC, unceded Coast Salish territory, and throughout so-called British Columbia. I also list online shops and designers from around the country.
Many of my links come from your submissions - Thank you! If you tell me about a dyer, designer, shop etc I will add it.
Many of my links come from your submissions - Thank you! If you tell me about a dyer, designer, shop etc I will add it.
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