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Dye For Yarn in Smashed Blackberry

Dye for Yarn is a new indie yarn at Loop. We are the first shop to carry this fingering weight yarn, which is dyed in Germany, and made from 75% Merino Superwash and 25% Mulberry Silk. This is a new venture for us since it is the first time we are carrying a yarn in non-repeatable colours. Up until now, we have always insisted that dyers supply us with yarns colours that we can re-order. We all know that the yarn may be different from one dye-lot, to the next, but we have an idea of what to expect. However, …

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We have all the colours of Quince & Co, that we got into stock, loaded on our web pages now. Not all the colours, have come in yet. Apparently, they can’t dye fast enough to keep up with demand. We’ll be adding them to our web pages as they come in. Here’s Meghan wearing her Kouyou shawl knit in Chickadee, colour petal. All the Quince & Co colours are lovely and the yarn has great loft making it extra squishy and cosy! It knits texture and lace very well. We also knit up Quince & Co’s Castle Pullover in Lark, …

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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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