Tag: wool

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Yummy Broklyn Tweed colours

  This week, it’s all about the boys at Loop. Jared Flood‘s amazing Loft and Shelter yarns finally arrived in stock. People have been phoning us for months, asking when we would get them in. We are the first store in Europe to carry them. Really beautiful yarn, great pattern support, and reasonably priced. We are delighted to have it. I won’t be surprised if some of the more popular colours are gone by the end of the week. We will have the full range of colours, although Shelter still has some colours to come in.   On Saturday, we’re …

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Posted on Posted in Yarns

I’m having trouble taking pictures, quickly enough, of all our new yarns! Last week this Sarah Tweed from BC Garn came in. Squeals of happy-knitter delight all down Camden Passage. It’s made up of 50% mulberry silk (which takes dye colour beautifully), 10% silk nubs (natures own nupps), and 40% wool. It has a lovely texture, unlike any yarn I’ve seen before. I’m knitting a shawl from it, for my Loop book (more of that in a future post). When I’m finished the Loop book, I’m going to do some selfish knitting and I’m going to finally have a Layering …

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