Knit Stars Scoop

When things unravel, it’s a good time to take a closer look, an honest look at how you knit your piece to begin with.So you don’t keep making the same mistakes.Unraveling is hard. No one likes to go backward. But in the end, it’s really the only way to move forward.This Tuesday, January 12, my story will be published - in hardcover, Kindle and audiobook formats.In it, I tell the unvarnished stories of my unravelings….the failures, the fear, and the frogging back.The release date was set by the publisher more than a year ago. With the tumult of this past...

If you’re like me and most knitters I know, you don’t really need “resolutions.”We're already driven. Goal-oriented. Productive. And often, more than a little hard on ourselves.Sound about right?So instead, I’m going to suggest that we begin this year a different way…Let’s start with a Party…and Possibilities 🥳This Friday, January 8th at 5pm Central, join me and some of your favorite Knit Stars for a FREE, LIVE Book Premiere Party over Zoom!Together, we’ll talk about strategies for getting our needles moving and putting our passions first in 2021...• Real talk about personal goals, knitting goals, biz goals and how they can...

It's finally here.The LAST WEEK OF 2020 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽This is my favorite week of the year, every year. I call it my Deep Dive Week. A week to sink deeply into a project where I learn something new that I can apply in the New Year.Six years ago, my Deep Dive week led to the idea of LoopsClub.Two years ago, my Deep Dive was book publishing. Which led to this. It's a week for possibility.So I ask you, dear reader: What's YOUR "impossible" dream for 2021?If you're ready to Deep Dive into the possibility, consider pre-ordering my upcoming book, Move the Needle: Yarns...

Do you have any of these people on your list?1. Yarn lover2. Creative person3. Aspiring entrepreneur4. Someone who needs hope5. Someone else who needs hope6. Yet another someone who needs hope...(Don't we all, right now? 💙)Simply put, I wrote this book to give you hope.Hope for overcoming the "can'ts" and the "somedays." Hope for making your most "impossible" dream come true.The book is now available for pre-order on Amazon and pretty much everywhere books are sold.And if you decide to buy extra copies as gifts, we even made you a pretty PDF that you can print right now and stuff in their stockings!Wishing...

Back when this girl was knitting a sweater for her college boyfriend, could she ever have imagined...That she would open an ad agency and then a yarn shop...That she would have tens of thousands of Loops and Knit Stars friends all over the world...That she would write the story of her crazy journey, and that Hay House / Random House would publish it?If you read nothing else in this newsletter, dear friend, read this:"Impossible" comes true. Every single day.My book is now available for Pre-Order. Why pre-order now instead of waiting until it's published January 12? Three big reasons:Big reason...

  As the holidays approacheth, Amano Yana yarn (can you say that 5 times, fast?!) might be just what you need this week... ☁️ Soft ☁️ 😊 Squishy 😊 ⏰ Instant jumbo yarn gratification! ⏰   Amano's Yana XL is 100% hand–sorted 21.5 micron Peruvian highland wool, developed and spun in an extremely soft and light-as-Andean-air structure. Ruth knitted up this super cute "Colorful Corner Blanket" by Purl Solo with 6 skeins of Main Color and one skein each in three Contrasting Colors. Ruth's blanket is 3 skeins 1400 (black) and 1 skein each of colors 1414, 1415, and 1416.This is the...