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🧶Home is where the star is
I’m writing you from the deck of my new little house, where allllllmost all of the boxes are now unpacked! 🎉🎉🎉 These are the only ones left, and I’ll give you one guess what they contain… 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 You guessed it! YARN! Next weekend, I plan to unbox my stash and organize it, using the method…
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Did you hear? I started a new Substack! I publish Shelley’s Sunday Yarns for free there every week, usually a day or two early, and there’s bonus content for paid subscribers, too. Check it out here. This embroidered hat was a gift from Season 9 Star Carolyn Bloom, based on her “My Next Hat Canvas” pattern.…
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🧶Hey there, fire horse 🔥
Did you hear? I started a new Substack! I publish Shelley’s Sunday Yarns for free there every week, usually a day or two early, and there’s bonus content for paid subscribers, too. Check it out here. You may have heard that this past week began a new lunar year. It’s the rare year of the…
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🧶Carrot, egg or coffee bean?
This week in “yoga church” as I refer to my friend Shannon’s classes, she shared a parable I’d never heard before. Maybe it will be new to you, too. A mother listened to her daughter as she described how hard her life had become. It seemed like one problem after another. She was tired of…
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🧶Breaker breaker 1-9
Brrrr it was freezing here this week! So I’m gifting this stash-busting “Me Me Me Cowl” from our archives to paid subscribers on my new Substack. If you’re viewing this free newsletter in your inbox and you’re curious what we’ve been up to over on Substack, click here. These past couple of weeks I’ve been…
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🧶Stay Gold
Hi friend! 👋 First, a quick reminder: This Sunday newsletter has always and will always be free. If you’re reading it in your inbox, thank you. If you’re reading it on our new Substack, thank you. If you’d like to join the conversation on Substack and access additional writings as a paid supporter, thank you…
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🧶Break often, not like porcelain…
A couple weeks ago, my friend and yoga teacher, Shannon, shared a quote that hit me so hard, I had to marinate with it a couple weeks before I could bring it here, to you. “Break often. Not like porcelain, But like the waves.” -Scherezade Siobhan If you’ve ever dropped a piece of your grandmother’s…
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🧶An inside job
“Into the Hoods Scarf” by Laura Nelkin. I don’t know about you, but lately my feed has been full of so much overly-enthusiastic “new year, new you!!!” messaging. For some reason, the algorithm has started serving me up a bunch of ads for neck creams and facelifts.😳 And while I’m all for “you do you”…
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The single thing that can make all the difference
Last week’s newsletter about the innovative “slow lane” in a Dutch grocery store, where people are encouraged to chat and connect, really struck a nerve. Apparently, many of you are also craving a slower, more intentional year of creating. Instead of seeing how many projects you can “knock out,” you’re looking to make fewer things…
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🧶Join me in the slow lane
Welcome to your first Shelley’s Sunday Yarns of 2026. Some of you have been reading this newsletter for the past 20 years. How amazing is that? And while so many of those years have flown by in an absolute blur of projects and filming and family and growth… This year I’d like to start out…
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🧶That face when
This is my actual face right before I got on a call with my original knitting idol… And then I asked her to be in Knit Stars: Your Season of Genius for 2026. 😱 I cannot express what a terrifying and yet full-circle moment this was for me. When I first learned to knit at…
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🧶The unimaginable
I’m writing to you on Monday morning, the day after a series of unimaginably terrible events in Australia, Syria, and here in the U.S., at Brown University and in Los Angeles. My heart hurts so much for all of the victims, and for our world. And when my heart is hurting…when as Wadsworth wrote, “the…
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