Gaye Glasspie

I am a confessed yarn addict, who also happens to be the mom of a beautiful, almost 21 year old, young lady. Welcome to my fiber diary. Come along with me as I obsess over all things fiber :). Contact me on GGmadeit@gmail.com and most importantly, thanks for visiting :)

What’s going on with GG? | Knit Stars & more..

Knit Stars, Knit Collage and The Lamb & Kid. I have so much going on and I am happy to share with you all. Let’s start with Season 8 Knit Stars. As you know I am the Star Advisor, which means I work with the Stars (new and Alum) to prepare for the new season. […]

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Knit for food | A knit-a-thon

Knit for food knit-a-thon goes live in 17 days. This will be my second year joining and I want to tell you why this is so important to me. You know as a kid, I didn’t know what we didn’t have. I didn’t know we were poor because I didn’t have anything/one to use for

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Finally Finished | A Story about when I lost my mojo

Finished. I finally cast off my Khaki. I wasn’t sure this would happen. For the first time I had no desire to knit. We have all heard makers say they have lost their mojo. I didn’t understand, until I did. It’s story time. This story is about why I almost didn’t finish this project. First

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It’s all about the Community | Madtosh Community Love Fund

When asked what I love the most in my fiber journey, my answer is always the people. The Community Love Fund is in it’s fourth year AND launches my new color “GG Loves Silver Linings”. Did you know I was the Ambassador? I am! I love when everyone wins. Let’s discuss the fund shall we?

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Dear Gaye Gaye | A letter to little GG

I have come to realize that all of the dark feelings that I have about myself stemmed from my childhood. As a result, I have decided to write a letter to little me. If I could I would go back and hold me tight. Obviously, I can not, so this letter I will write. Dear

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Hot Loops Wall | One of my proudest moments

Back in April, I found myself in an airport headed back to Tulsa, OK. This time is was to launch the Spring Hot Loops Wall at the Knit Stars flagship store. The loops wall was turning HOT (orange). You see the Hot Loop wall always has a theme and this time the theme is GG

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I am still knitting my way through | 4 projects down

Knitting came into my life when I needed it most. I was struggling, emotionally, and I kept my knitting close. That was 10 years ago and here we go again. This pandemic has been tough for many reasons. I Thank God that I could pick of my yarn and distract myself. Today is February 10th

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Knit Collage Fall KAL 2021

Fall is here and the maker community is buzzing with excitement. This is OUR time. It’s time for the festivals, the KALS, and the yarn crawls. I am coming to you to talk about the Knit Collage Fall Knit along. It happens every year around this time. The votes are in and here are the

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Knitting Through the Hard Times

Going through hard times is how I wound up in love with knitting. No matter how hard things got, I kept my heaZomied down and I knit. I could cry and my yarn didn’t have any questions. I could NOT want to talk to anyone and that was absolutely ok while knitting. You see for

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Habits are hard to break | A story about how I misread a pattern..AGAIN

Habits, we all have them. A habit is defined as a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. Are you thinking “where are you going with this GG?” Stick with me…I need to explain. A while back I wrote a blog post about things I have learned. Clearly

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