🧶 Diane Ivey's First Project
Do you still have the first thing you ever knit?To this day, I don’t know what happened to that pink cable sweater made with scratchy wool that I cobbled together on a road trip at the age of 16. I hope that out there somewhere, someone in a really cold place with unusually long arms is enjoying it. 🤪In today’s clip from Knit Stars Masterclass Season 4, Diane Ivey, founder of Lady Dye Yarns, shares the woeful tale of her first scarf-turned-cape…along with the hope of her mission to improve the inclusivity of the fiber space.All this month, we’ll be...
🧶 Beth’s first sweater!
This week’s “Moving the Needle” guest writer is Beth, our Knit Stars Relationships Manager. She recently finished a new version of one of my favorite older designs, and agreed to share a story about it. Read on and enjoy! - xoxo, Shelley I am not a great flyer.I am the one in the window seat, eyes glued to the sky to assist the pilot in flying the plane from my seat in coach. I have discovered over time that if I can keep my hands busy knitting, I am much more relaxed and can even bring myself to enjoy ok, tolerate the ride.Before my...
🧶Become a colorwork star
Oh, what I would give to go back in time…Back when I was making colorwork sweaters for my babies, completely winging it.If only I’d had Knit Stars Arne + Carlos, Mary Jane Mucklestone and Andrea Rangel by my side.Those tiny sweaters - while precious heirlooms - would be so much less embarrassing! 🙈 Our Masterclass Season 3: North Stars Rising still stands as our most popular Season to date. And with this list of teachers, it’s easy to see why! This is THE Season to own if you want to master colorwork - plus learn the secrets to lifelong knitting ergonomic...
🧶How can one row look this good? 👀
Believe it or not, this scarf is a 1-row repeat. 🤯When I read that, I honestly didn’t quite believe it.But it’s true. This pattern called SØLV by Season 3 Knit Star Cecelia Campochiaro is a one-row pattern repeated over and over, except for the increases and decreases at the ends of alternating rows to create the parallelogram shape.And it’s fully reversible too! 🤯🤯🤯How is this possible? Through the genius of the technique Cecelia invented, called Sequence Knitting. It emerged from her brilliant mind and her background in coding. She saw knitting patterns in a whole new way, and her approach was...
🧶Ann + Kay bust a knitting myth
Have you ever thought of knitters as lonely?In Knit Stars Masterclass Season 3, Ann + Kay of Modern Daily Knitting set out to bust a bunch of knitting myths…Like “You must always finish what you start.”And “Garter stitch is boring.”And “Knitting is a lonely, solitary activity.”I don’t know about you but this last one really gets my goat. (A cashmere goat, of course! 🐐)Maybe that’s because I spent my first 20 years as a knitter so alone. Feeling weird and isolated.That’s why I’ve dedicated my life to connecting knitters with each other around the globe.So would you do 3 quick,...
Arne + Carlos’ mind-blowing tip 🤯
Norwegian purl! 🤯A few years back when we debuted Knit Stars Masterclass Season 3, Arne + Carlos showed us how they make the Norwegian purl.And all around the world, knitters who had always been stumped by the continental purl said a collective “OOOOH AAAAHHHHHH…”After all, lots of us love the continental knit stitch because it’s lightning fast, especially in the round…But that purl stitch can be a booger, right?Well, booger no more! Click here to watch Arne Norwegian Purl like a master! A few days ago, I walked into our Knit Stars Flagship Store and my eyes literally turned into pulsating hearts...