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...

  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...

Our featured dyer for this month's pop-up shop, Julie, lives in a beautiful part of Australia. We asked her to share with us a little more about her part of the world. Read below to learn more about her daily life and what inspires her. I live on a 83acre/33hectare rural property near the little town of Buchan, located in the bottom right-hand corner of mainland Australia. Some of the land is cleared but much of it is native re-growth and a small patch of old growth native eucalyptus forest. From the many windows of my two story house I...

Has this ever happened to you?Has the universe ever seemed to just plop a person directly into your path...and you knew, instantly, that person would become a friend?A couple of weeks ago, a familiar face popped up in our free Knit the World Together Facebook group.She introduced herself to the group, and her words humbly downplayed her familiarity:"My name is Jen and I was famous for a hot second about a month ago because I made Bernie Sanders’ mittens (you know, the ones from the memes...)"Yeah Jen, we know! And so does the whole world! 😂🤩Jen's been working on a book...

This month we are welcoming Lichen and Lace to our February Pop-Up Shop! An independent dyer from New Brunswick, Canada, Megan has slowly grown her dye studio - from hobby, to passion, to art. Her colors have made her a favorite of knitters across the globe. To introduce Lichen and Lace to you, we chose their single-ply Superwash Fingering. It's 400 yards of color and possibility. We love this organic texture in shawls and cowls. It is so soft- on the needles, under the fingers, and those *colors* 😍 😍 😍These tonals and speckles glow in Joji Locatelli's crescent shawl, "Ebba's Garden."...

Grab a cuppa.Take a slow cleansing breath.Caravan from Crave Yarn is a yarn that can't be rushed: an extraordinarily soft, lustrous blend of merino, cashmere, camel, and silk. With a firm twist and subtle, sophisticated palette, Caravan is destined to become your go-to, "everyday luxury" choice when a pattern calls for a sport weight yarn.Melanie Berg's "Caress My Soul" shawl is an elongated semi-circular shawl with a garter stitch body and a bold lace edging. Pick three skeins of Crave Caravan and indulge in this soothing shawl.Explore Crave Caravan here.P.S. - Through the end of January, we are hosting a Crave Caravan trunk...