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🧶Frozen shoulder and Knit Stars magic
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times… On the European filming trip for Knit Stars Season 11, I was reminded yet again of the importance of staying present with my knitting. But before I get into the story, a gentle reminder that today’s the last day for our first-ever BOGO…
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🧶If there’s no solution, then there’s no problem
This week I have a fun update on the final leg of our European filming tour for Knit Stars Season 11: Your Season of Genius. But before I get into that, here’s a quick public service announcement… We’re having a sale! Today through next Sunday, July 5th, when you enroll in Knit Stars Season 11, you’ll…
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🧶Lessons from a life of Bliss
I’m writing you from the train as Brad and I make our way from Vichy, France to Paris, winding up the European leg of filming for Knit Stars Season 11. While I spend a lot of my life on planes and boats don’t bother me, trainsickness can really get me. There’s something about the landscape…
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🧶The 55-year stash ball.
Happy Sunday! This week, I’m thrilled to report that legendary designer, author, lecturer, and trend forecaster Erika Knight is just like us. No, really! She loves her grandson. She loves her, pup, Slippers. She stores her notions in egg cartons. She goes rummaging on the beach and fills her pockets with special rocks and found…
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🧶It wouldn’t all fit
This week I’ve been organizing my photos from our recent filming trip to Taiwan, as I prepare to fly out on our next filming trip – this time, to Europe. And I normally save most of the behind-the-scenes stuff for our Earlybirds – the folks who sign up for the next Season early, which helps fund…
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🧶The Viral video I deleted
Dear friend, A couple of months ago, I posted a video on the Knit Stars instagram that got 30,000 views – in the first hour. A video with that much initial engagement can easily reach hundreds of thousands, or even millions of viewers. And a couple of hours later, I deleted it. At the time,…
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Rastus Hsu’s new origami shawl design for the upcoming Knit Stars 2026: Your Season of Genius. So you know how the old saying goes… You can take a girl out of the yarn store, but you can’t take the yarn store out of the girl! (Well, the old saying goes something like that 🤣) So many…
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🧶Do you knit the right way?
Have you ever asked yourself if you knit the “right” way? 👀 If you’re like most of us, chances are someone has told you at some point that “you’re doing it wrong.” But Beth is here to tell you, if you’re knitting, you’re doing it right. Beth, who was born with a rare congenital deformity…
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🧶Who completes you?
This week’s newsletter will be a little shorter and sweeter as I’m preparing to fly to Taiwan to film with Rastus Hsu for Knit Stars 2026: You Season of Genius. And this week, this idea is what I’m sitting with… The only one who can complete you and the only one who can defeat you is you.…
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🧶A site for sore eyes?
Are you like me, really feeling the “doom” in “doomscrolling” these days? Do you sometimes crave a few simple moments of Yarnie eye candy, uninterrupted by pushy ads for “miracle” face creams or people shouting through the tiny screen at you? Of course you do…that’s why you’re here, right? 😊 So let me cordially invite…
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🧶Happy LYS Day!
One of the earlier Hot Loops Walls. We’ve had a lovely influx of new readers the past few weeks, so if that’s you, welcome! 🤗 Some newer readers may not know that before starting Knit Stars, I had a local yarn store called Loops. I started it in 2005, as a mom of 3 young…
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🧶Less or, more and
My dear, wise friend GG said something in a recent YouTube video that I almost missed, it went by so fast. But it was profound, and I can’t get it out of my head. She said the world needs “less or, more and.” Her point was that we should stop judging others (and ourselves)…stop asserting that one…
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