Knit Pray Love

10/11/2026

I am so excited for my next retreat at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. A relaxing weekend to unwind, connect with some amazing fiber friends, become more present, do some self care practices, and of course enjoy the beautiful campus and the amazing Berkshires! Come and join me https://kripalu.org/experiences/knit-pray-love?sku=18446899 😊

10/06/2026

Hello Fiber Friends! Please, please make sure that you make note of this. My good friend Knit Sisu had her pattern stolen by someone calling themselves The Knit & Thread Studio on Patreon. Please do not buy anything from them. I feel the best practice is to go directly to the designers to make sure you are not purchasing a fake pattern being sold under a reputable designers name.

The fraudulent Patreon account The Knit & Thread Studio is stealing patterns - mine included - PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS ACCOUNT. Most recently this was seen in the Knittingforbeginners group page.
If you are a part of this group, and want the Laura’s Learning to Knit Sweater, please see the Knit Sisu website. Thank you.

05/08/2026

✨ This author.
✨ This book.
✨ This topic.

The perfect combination for awakening, growth, and healing.
My dear friend and colleague Coby Kozlowski has brought something truly special into the world with her new book, The Ache in the Heart is Holy.

Coby does the deep work — the kind that gently invites us beneath the surface and into honest relationship with ourselves, our humanity, and the quiet longings we so often try to outrun. This book is not about fixing ourselves. It’s about listening more closely to what aches, what calls, what matters, and what wants to come alive within us.

For anyone longing to stay connected to their inner life rather than numb it out… for anyone walking through change, grief, growth, uncertainty, or becoming… this book offers wise and compassionate companionship.

I’m so grateful for Coby’s voice, her courage, and the depth of heart she brings to everything she creates. 💛

Congratulations, Coby. The world needs this book.

Run, don’t walk, to get your copy today. 📚✨

04/12/2026

Hanging out with one of my many WIPs and Joe Cool!

04/01/2026

New on the Needles!!

03/28/2026

Just imagine ...

03/16/2026

✨ Rich, deep, meaningful… and so full of heart. ✨

This weekend at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health was everything I love about leading a retreat—fun-filled, deeply nourishing, and brimming with community, connection, compassion, and tenderness. Watching people relax, connect with themselves, and with each other never ceases to amaze and humble me. Truly, I feel so blessed every time I do one of these. 💛

It’s a gift to witness transformation unfold naturally—through creativity, conversation, quiet moments, and shared laughter. Every retreat reminds me why this work is so important, and what a perfect place Kripalu is to hold this kind of magic. 🌿

If you’d like to join me, I’m hosting this retreat again this year, the weekend following Thanksgiving, watch for registration to open soon, and next year’s dates are already set—I’ll be revealing them very soon!

03/10/2026

A new article from the BBC came out this week about the surprising health benefits of knitting—and honestly, many of us who craft already know this from experience.

Knitting and crocheting can help reduce stress, support focus, calm the nervous system, and create that lovely sense of rhythm that helps us slow down and settle in.

But there’s another benefit that often gets overlooked…
Community.

Crafting alongside others, sharing stories, laughter, and quiet moments together can be just as nourishing as the making itself.
That’s exactly what we create together at the Knit Pray Love Retreat—a weekend of mindful crafting, gentle movement, and genuine connection at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

There’s still time to join us this weekend, and there are JUST A FEW SPACES LEFT. If this kind of creative self-care speaks to you, I’d love to welcome you.

Give yourself the gift of something good for your hands, your mind, and your heart that supports your wellbeing—one stitch at a time.

And maybe the best health benefit of all…
we have each other. 🧶

✨ Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4eG2P3j

From preventing nail-biting and doomscrolling all the way up to helping people addicted to drugs, knitting can have a surprisingly powerful affect on your brain.

03/01/2026

When you realize your yarn and your project bag are basically the exact same color… 👀🧶

Like… was that intentional?
Or am I just in my full-on matchy-matchy era and not fighting it? 😂

Either way, I’m clearly committed.
This project on my needles is part of something I’m quietly excited about. It’s going to be a free pattern, and it’s connected to a new month-long experience inside the Knit Pray Love Commu-knity.
I'm calling it:
Commit to Knit: A Month of Daily Practice 🧘‍♀️🧵
(Yes. Practice. Not a challenge. We’re not white-knuckling anything around here.)
The theme for our month together is tapas — and not the delicious small plates (though I fully support those too 😌). In yoga, tapas is devotional discipline. The steady return. The choice to come back to something again and again for the sake of your own self-awareness, self-care, growth, and evolution.

This will be a gentle, grounded, and spacious.
Small daily stitches.
A simple structure.
A way to build heat and clarity through consistency.
No pressure. Just practice.

More details soon. For now, I’ll be over here… fully coordinated and pretending it was the plan all along. 😉

✨

03/01/2026

With Michelle Dalbec - Yoga Teacher – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉