JennyKnits

Fourteen years of teaching knitting on YouTube, a livestream community that kept me grounded through cancer treatment, and a comeback after losing it all. This is where that story lives, along with the projects and patterns I teach today.

Tales From The Stash

Knitting has been the steady thread through many seasons of my life.

Over time, my yarn stash grew. Some skeins held memories. Some were impulse buys. Some were leftovers from finished sweaters. I realized I didn't need more yarn. I needed a way to use what I already had.

That's how Tales from the Stash began. Simple. Repeatable. Calm.

If this sounds familiar, you have yarn tucked into closets and baskets, you feel a little guilty buying more, you want something simple, not overwhelming, and you'd love to actually finish a project.

You can use leftover yarn. You don't need to memorize complicated instructions. You can knit at your own pace. It's repetitive in the best way, it's forgiving, and it turns forgotten yarn into something meaningful.

The Comback

Knitting started as something steady and personal, long before it was anything else.

Over time, it grew into a whole world. A monetized YouTube channel. A blog. A livestream on Twitch where I knit two hours a day and built a community that showed up week after week. It wasn't flashy. It was consistent, and it was working.

Then it wasn't. I lost monetization, let the domain lapse, and stopped livestreaming. It didn't feel dramatic in the moment, it just quietly stopped.

After learning more about digital marketing, I got back into knitting again. I re-purchased the domain and built it back from scratch. It took two years to get re-monetized on YouTube. I'm not livestreaming anymore, but I'm able to do this work without burning out the way I did before.

Knitting taught me patience. Losing it and rebuilding it taught me something else, that steady work compounds, even after it looks like it's gone for good.

If you’d like more stash-friendly ideas and step-by-step tutorials, you can explore my JennyKnits blog or watch along on JennyKnits YouTube.

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Contact Me

Email: workshardjen @gmail.com (no spaces)

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