Knit Stars Scoop

If you're a fan of '80s music like me...Our April Pop-Up dyer is going to have you singing along to the '80s classic "You Spin Me Round" for the rest of the week (sorry not sorry!) 👩‍🎤🤘🎶Renee Hahnel created Spun Right Round Yarns back in 2009 as a part-time operation, offering hand-dyed fiber and handspun yarn, all out of a small cabin in Central New York. Over the years, the business has grown into a studio space that is now located in Rochester.(She had to make room for allll the colors! 🎨) For this month's Pop-Up shop, we are featuring...

  Some big things are happening in the Loops and Knit Stars worlds. Fifteen years ago, I founded Loops as a local yarn store in Tulsa. Then, 7 years ago, we found a way to turn the Loops experience into a membership called LoopsClub. A year after that came my biggest passion project to date - the first global online knitting masterclass event, Knit Stars.Each step in this journey with you has brought us closer to fulfilling our mission to Knit the World Together. 🌎💙And now, we’ve decided to bring all of our communities - the store, club and masterclass...

  When it comes to knitting, we all have our challenges.Whether we're making our first lopsided scarf...tackling our first steek...or simply just trying to make time for ourselves and our craft.So we're excited to announce something NEW and FREE:💫💪🏽The 7-Day Knit Stars Challenge! 💪🏽💫Each day for 7 Days, we'll focus on one specific aspect of your knitting life - your space, your stash, your tools, your body and mind...And we'll be sharing some of our Knit Stars' best celebrity tips along the way!This is a great way to honor the fiber artist in you...because YOU are the Star of your own...

You and me, my friend.We're the creators. The innovators.We're the colorful ones pushing the envelope. Making stuff. Getting stuff done.And often, that can mean we get lonely. Never more so than over the past year.So I'd like to take this moment to let you know I see you. I honor your creativity, your struggles, your stash, your WIPs and your finished objects. I honor our connection, here in this little newsletter, in our store, in our Club or in Knit Stars - it's all so important to me.As Maria Shriver wrote in this week's Sunday Paper newsletter, "No one does...

We know of a place...A place where knitters support...laugh...learn...A safe place to show off your creativity, and to be inspired.You've had the power to go there all along 👠 - you just have to believe in yourself...And join us in LoopsClub! This week *only* we are opening signups for LoopsClub...it's the last chance this year, and the best time to gift yourself - and maybe someone else! 🎁🎁It's also your chance to add the optional Blue Bag LoopsClub luxury kits. And we're beyond thrilled to announce that the December kit will be a collab with Karida Collins of Neighborhood Fiber...

Have you been tempted to try the new Loops palette of New Tosh Tweed, but want to start with a super-simple project?This easy cowl is a great project to knit in your next Zoom meeting and makes a great gift..."Fake a Fade" is a signature pattern here at Loops! Holding two colors of fingering weight yarn together and marling them in the middle "fakes" a fade! Rachel made our version Okie style with colors "Grand Lake" and "Will Rogers" - just two of our new exclusive colors of New Tosh Tweed. One skein of each color is all you need!How about...