Have you noticed the beautiful plant-dyed yarn that appears in the banner slideshow for our online shop? We are very proud to be the exclusive stockist of Mette Mehlsen’s yarns, which are dyed with plants collected from western parts of Jutland, Denmark, where she lives and dyes. Susan (our lovely Loop proprietor) discovered Mette through her beautiful Instagram feed, and loved everything about what she was doing –  from the natural dyes, the colours achieved and the use of white and grey wool native to Denmark right down to the beautifully simple wrapped brown paper bands. We’ve been carrying her …

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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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The first issue of Making, ‘Flora’, was released last summer and sold out at Loop many times over, and when the second issue ‘Fauna’ was released in November, it practically flew out the doors. Loop loves independent publishing and Making is one of our favourites; it’s a beautiful publication that we are more than a little smitten with, and we are absolutely thrilled that our Loop exclusive Orkney Angora ‘St Magnus’ in ‘Ghost’ is featured in the Arctic Cowl by Carrie Bostick Hoge.