Grant Webster

Watch this video clip from Season 6 to learn Louis’ favorite elastic hat brim technique. Hey happy, yarny New Year to you! Over here at Knit Stars, our resolution for 2022 is to make sure you get the star treatment you deserve. ✨ After feeling not-seen for my first couple of decades as a knitter,…

Finally. It’s the day after… The day you get to relax, maybe make some pancakes, kick back and settle in with your latest project wearing the new Snuggie that Aunt Ruth gave you. And maybe if you’re really lucky, you got a Knit Stars gift card (or 3) in your stocking! That would be perfect timing,…

Ho ho hoooooooo… Look what’s headed here on Santa’s sleigh! 🤩 Our good friends at Amano have created a new color of their legendary Vicuña fiber. Behold…Vicuña Burgundy. The vicuña is the highly-protected undomesticated relative of the alpaca. Fragile-looking, elegant and extremely agile, the vicuña walks silently and alert through the Andean highlands, almost as…

To speckle or not to speckle? That was the question. When she was working on this *surprise* new colorway just for us, Adella Colvin went back and forth on whether to add speckles. She wrote, “I wanted my new Knit Stars colorway to be light, airy and fun. So I dyed up what I thought was the…

New shipment of LolaBean “Pinto Bean” in Cygnet, Wedding Day Bouquet, Georgia Peach, Sugar & Spice, Fanciful, and Eccentric. Hi, How’s your December starting out? Maybe you’ve had your head down, stitching away on holiday gifts… And maybe you’ve been following what’s happening in our fiberverse, where once again, black makers have been mistreated, marginalized…

You know that feeling when you finally break through a big block? The custom blocking mats we’ve been working on for more than a year have finally, finally arrived! Whew and woohoo! And to celebrate, we’re giving them away. 🎉 No seriously… For a limited time, when you buy our exclusive Needle Keeper for just…

Happy Scoop Day! I’ve got a really fun treat for you this week. It’s a longstanding Loops (and now Knit Stars) tradition. The “kinder, gentler” Black-Friday-week-Surprise. No 4am doorbusters or mobs. Just a fun, easy approach to the holiday season, along with some crafty, freebie goodness. I’m really into stickers right now – on my…

Shop this Birdie Parker “Bling Box” and our other holiday Countdown Calendars here I’m starting to feel that familiar pressure build. Maybe you feel it, too? That time each year when the holidays creep closer, and I start to do the mental math. “If I make one hat a week that’s 6 gifts…”   “Hmmm if I…

Welcome to our first-ever Scoop takeover! 🤗 We invited Adella Colvin, the genius behind LolaBean Yarn Co to guest-write the lead article for this week’s Scoop, and of course she came through, big-time! Read on to learn about how Knit Stars and LolaBean came together for first-of-its-kind collaboration. “Everything started roughly two years ago. Shelley had approached me…

Wowza…we’ve had so much fun with our first-ever Knit Stars Free Preview week! The free previews have been shared far and wide…and just as we’d hoped, they’ve spread creative joy and hope throughout – and well beyond – the fibersphere. 🌎❤️ (Heads up: If you haven’t had a chance to watch the free videos, you…

A few weeks ago, I was chatting over Zoom with my friend Michael who lives in Queensland, Australia. I was telling him about the upcoming Season 6 of our Knit Stars Masterclasses, trying to convey how amazing the documentary videos were turning out. I couldn’t find the words. “Is it okay if I just show…

The beans have been spilled. And it took everything I had not to spill a few tears, too… After a very full year of dreaming, signing on lots of dotted lines, and taking leap after leap of faith…it’s here. The Knit Stars Flagship Store is finally open. The magical stardust is still floating in the…

Oh how I love a new cast-on. There’s nothing like a new project. Pulling the first strand from that fresh cake of yarn and making the slipknot. All the hope of a new beginning. A beautiful clean start. At the opening of our new Knit Stars Flagship Store, someone said to me, “Does this feel…

SIX DAYS! 😅 We’re just 6 days away from opening the doors to the culmination of a lifelong vision. The new Knit Stars Flagship Store is my 6,000-square-foot celebration of yarn lovers everywhere. A place where we can come to connect with others like us. Squish the yarn. Play with color. Create. Dream. Stargaze. There…

It’s getting real… and really REALLY exciting! We’re just a couple weeks away from the Knit Stars Flagship Store Grand Opening, October 1-2. Folks from all over the world are flying and road-tripping in. Including 10 of my favorite Knit Stars and dyeing Stars. We just found out Tina Tse is joining us too! And the…

There are parties. And then there are parties… You know, the parties you remember for decades. The “I was there!” parties. Like Woodstock, or Y2K, or that perfect destination wedding. This is what our Knit Stars Flagship Store Grand Opening Celebration October 1+2 is shaping up to be. On opening day, we’ll reveal the new Hot Loops wall.…

By now, you might have heard that 8 knitting superstars will be attending the Grand Opening of our Knit Stars Flagship Store, Oct. 1-2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (We’d love for you to come too, and join us in the celebration! You can get more details and RSVP right here). But I bet you’re also wondering about…THE…

You are so much a part of this Knit Stars movement of modern makers & it just wouldn’t be the same without you here! Please R.S.V.P. below for the new 6,000 sq. ft. store grand opening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. See you soon! ♥   CLICK NOW TO RSVP BE OUR GUEST, ALONG WITH THESE KNITTING STARS:  …

“If you build it, they will come.” Remember this line from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams? In the movie, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can’t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. With the help of his wife, he begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into…

This past couple of weeks, the knitting world fell in love with Tom Daley, the Olympic gold medalist and British diver who knits to calm his nerves between dives. At about the same time that Tom’s story went viral, I was in Atlanta filming with another Knit Star on the rise – Vincent Williams, the visionary behind…