Loop is turning 15! Starting from Thursday the 1st of October and through the coming weeks, we are kicking off a month of all sorts of lovely projects and wonderful things for you to join us in celebrating our 15th anniversary. We are starting with the revival of a specially dyed colour from Spincycle Yarns called Venus in Furs.

This week we thought we’d focus on two very beautiful shawls that we’ve been admiring at Loop! Cinnabar by Andrea Mowry and Beautiful Day by Nadia Crétin-Léchenne are very different in design but we’re head over heels for them both right now! We have lots of yarn and colour suggestions for Cinnabar, and some great yarn substitution ideas for Beautiful Day too!

Next weekend at Edinburgh Yarn Festival we’ll be launching Andrea Mowry’s new cowl pattern kit ‘Across The Pond’, created in a special collaboration between Spincycle Yarns, Andrea and Loop, to launch at Loop’s stand at EYF! Knitted with Spincycle Yarns’ newest colourway  ‘Melancholia’ in ‘Dyed In The Wool‘, and paired with their Private Label milled merino sportweight in ‘Natural Grey’. The Across The Pond kits will include the yarn and pattern all wrapped up in a specially designed project bag, celebrating our collaboration for the festival. Loop will be hosting the ‘Spinsters’ at our stand H1, where they will be between …

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