Holiday Hours
The Loop will be closed on Monday, September 4th for the Labour Day holiday. We’ll be open again on Tuesday, September 5th at 10:00 am. Have a great long weekend!
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Silkies!!
Annie has dyed some amazing silk scarves for you! We have three sizes and a whole bunch of amazing colour combinations! We also have more ChiaoGoo Twist Minis (the ones that are so cute and small that your voice gets all high pitched!) Also more Uptown Worsted, plus stitch markers and orifice hooks from Purple …
New Pretties for Everyone!
We have some new Regia “Tweed” for you this week! Plus 5 new Group of Seven Colourways, beautifully dyed by Annie. Northern Lights – Jackson Big Raven – Carr Autumn Birches – Thomson Big Eagle – Carr Abstract Tree Forms – Carr
Eye see you!
Check out Bethan’s Eyeball Shawl by Stephen West! (Usually the finished object doesn’t look back at you.) Excellent work!!
Winner Winner!
We have our winners, plucked from the comments on our Road Trippin’ post! Congratulations to Kittin, YuliaAV, and Laura Jamieson! You each win a skein of “150 sock – True North” from Two Birds Knitting! Happy road knitting, you guys! Annie will have your prizes at the store!
Hunter’s Sweater!
Hunter knitted this beauty with a combination of hand dyed and commercial yarns, and it is stunning!
A “Q & A” with Marilynn!
We’re still slightly in shock over Marilynn’s amazing shawl project from last week. We had questions, and we figured that if we were curious, you were too. So we hit up Miss Marilynn for some answers! The Loopies – How long did it take you to knit that shawl? Did you work on it exclusively, …
New Group of Seven Inspired Yarns!
We have six more limited edition colourways in our “Group of Seven” inspired series of fingering weight Loop House yarn! Please welcome “Black Mountain-Carr,” “Shore Pattern-Casson,” “Metchosin-Carr,” “Shoreline-Carr,” “October Gold-Carmichael,” and “Above the Gravel Pit-Carr!” Oh Polly, you goofball!
Road Tripping?
We are halfway through Canada’s birthday summer, and is it ever going by quickly! We were talking about a Canadian summer tradition a couple of weeks ago, specifically, The Road Trip. Varying in distance, but always a great opportunity for knitting time if you’re not the driver. Of course, this segued into much discussion about …
Holiday Hours
Polly would like to tell you that The Loop will be closed on Monday, August 7th, for the Heritage Day holiday. We will re-open at 10:00 am on Tuesday, August 8th. Have a wonderful long weekend!