Knitters love cats! Just look at all the catavatars on Ravelry! They should be our natural enemies, due to the damage they inflict on our yarn, but we love em! The best selling authors of Best in Show: Dogs, Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne, have done it again with a book that shows you how to knit your own cat. Join us on Saturday September 17th, from 2-4pm for the book launch of Best in Show: Cats. If you came to our book launch for Jane Brocket’s book, you’ll know we have a good time ~ lots of tea, lemonade, …

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Loop feature in Knitscene Fall 2011

  Fall magazines are coming in fast, with lots of great ideas for autumn knits. Get your copies of Interweave Knits and Knitscene while they last. We’re delighted to be featured in the fall 2011 issue of Knitscene. We are the only place in the UK where you can get the amazing new American magazine, Anthology. It’s not a knitting magazine but it is very stylish and interesting so we couldn’t resist carrying it.

Madelinetosh sock in William Morris and Trodden

  Madelinetosh sock in William Morris and Trodden Sympathy for Norway Firstly we’d like to extend our Sympathy and good thoughts to everyone in Norway following the terrible events last Friday.  We have customers, friends, relatives and staff from Norway and we are thinking of all of you. Knit Nation Knit Nation was wild! Thanks to everyone that came and queued so patiently on the Friday night…we heard people waited for up to 40 minutes to pay. Our best sellers included Wollmeise (of course, you guys just can’t get enough), all our  Madeline Tosh yarns (fantastic new colours!), Viola (our …

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The exciting news  of the week is Knit Nation.   We have lots to get ready so we  will be closing at 6pm on Thursday and there will be no knit night this week.  On Friday the 15th, the shop will close early at 4:30, so that we can set up our stand. We will however, be opening the shop on Saturday and Sunday as usual. We will carry Wollmeise on our stand this year as well as many other special treats that we have been waiting to launch at Knit Nation. Above, is the shop sample of the Chianti …

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This new pattern book by Gudrun Johnston, “The Shetland Trader” is a favourite at Loop. It has so many patterns that we want to knit. Most of us have our eye on more than one. I adore the lace cardi on the front, and would love to see it done in Madelinetosh Prairie, if it can make gauge. I must swatch! (BTW, if you haven’t seen the amazing new colours of Madelinetosh yarns that we got in stock at the beginning of June, you must check them out!) Another pattern by the Shetland Trader (not in the book) is the …

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Saturday June 11th is Worldwide Knit in Public Day. To celebrate everything at Loop will be 10% off on the day (with the exception of class bookings). This includes online orders as well as in the shop. So grab some yarn and needles and go public with your knitting!

Lilith at Old Maiden Aunt has dyed up some wonderful new yarn colours for us. There are eight new colours in all, including two very wearable yellows (something we have been short on, until recently). This is one of my favourite yarns and she has now dyed my favourite colour, Ghillie Dhu, which is a lovely chartreuse green. I don’t know if I can justify yet another shawl in this colour. (Do you have that problem too?)  I think I will need to knit myself a sweater in Gillie Dhu, when I next get some selfish knitting time. Susan and …

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Misti Alpaca sock in Cerise and Birds in Paradise

We’ve carried Peace Love Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Sock yarns for a while. They have great colour striping combinations. One of my favourite pairs of socks is knit in this yarn. It’s just a simple slip stitch pattern but it looks so effective in any heavily variegated yarn. (It was originally written for one of Madelinetosh’s more stripy yarns. The pattern is called Slippery Sock). The Alpaca makes them my warmest pair of socks. They are also incredibly hard wearing,  although they are strictly hand-wash only. New to Loop though, is the semi-solid variation of this yarn, Misti Alpaca Tonas …

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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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Jane Brocket is coming to lauch her new book, The Gentle Art of Knitting, at Loop, on Saturday May 21st, from  2-4pm. Once again, we will have lovely cake and cookies, milk and juice for you all (I’ll see if I can get my son to bake some more of his lemon drizzle cake with ducks eggs). To celebrate the book launch, on May 21st, there will be 10% off the cover price of Jane’s book and any yarns she has used in her book. This includes;  Madelinetosh Sock, Blue Sky Alpaca Bulky, Blue Sky Alpaca Sportweight, Blue Sky Alpaca …

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