Happy New Year! We hope you’ve all had happy holidays and are looking forward to a new year of yarns, patterns and lots of quality knitting time! For 2016 we thought we’d begin with one of our highlights from last year. To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Nathalie Lete came to visit and spent a Saturday morning delicately decorating our window. It really was a joy to watch this talented artist, but don’t worry if you missed it, you can relive it all again!

The wait is nearly over! The custom colours are filling up the shelves in the shop and already finding new homes, so now we’re just counting down the days until our anniversary publication Loop’s 10 arrives. It’s your last chance to take advantage of our pre-order discount that gives you 10% off the cost of the book. We are accepting pre-orders until midnight 31st August, so be sure to get your order in this weekend. Now we’ve revealed all the patterns and the yarns, let’s have a little reminder of the delights we have in store for you!

We’ve loved bringing you the stories behind the yarns and the patterns that have come together to make our anniversary book Loop’s 10. As the release date is on the horizon (early September!) we have a few interviews with key creatives who brought it all together. This week, we chat with Kristin Perers, who is responsible for the gorgeous photography of Loop’s 10. The custom colours are starting to arrive! Find out how you can win a skein of Dye for Yarn’s Golden Beehive at the end of the post! (Competition now closed – but we’ll have lots more in the future so stayed tuned!)