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!
She did it again!
Annie has created another batch of amazing Loop House yarn inspired by the beautiful landscapes painted by The Group of Seven, one of Canada’s most important group of artists! Mirror Lake – Inspired by Franklin Carmichael The Jack Pine – Inspired by Tom Thomson Sunset – Inspired by Tom Thomson Algoma Reflections …
We have Fino!
Some more of Julie Asselin’s beautiful “Fino” fingering weight yarn has arrived! Plus a re-stock of Tynn Merinoull, DROPS Karisma and DROPS Nepal!
2017 Stampede Round-Up
Hopefully you were able to make it to the Western Oasis at the Calgary Stampede this year. We went down to check it out, and our fibre folk were well represented! In case you didn’t get to the grounds, here’s a sample of the fibre goodies we found. Lots of ribbons too, including some from …