Our next Christmas wishlist is compiled by Rachel, resident test knitter and Wollmeise junkie: More Wollmeise! Rachel doesn’t believe in too much of a good thing! She would like to make Chadwick from Stephen West’s new book with some of her lovely Wollmeise collection. Natalie Lete Silk Scarf. She also loves the Natalie Lete Cat brooch. Surely that wouldn’t take up too much room in her stocking, would it Santa? Stag Horn Button in Olive. (See the next post for a handy to turn this into a brooch. Haapsula Shawl book. (This is such a popular wishlist book!) Twelve skeins …

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It’s snowing here today, and the Christmas lights have been switched on in Camden Passage. This puts us in mind to start compiling our letters to Santa. We’ve all been good girls, at Loop, and we have very specific knitting desires that we thought we would share with you. We also share them with our friends and family via the Amazon Universal Wish List button.

We still have lots of Wollmeise left. Call the shop anytime, to order your own gorgeous skein (or two). This beautiful owl is one of the many lovely things we have in shop from Natalie Lete.

We still have lots of Wollmeise in twin and 100% merino left . None of the colours have sold out yet. We didn’t get as much lace, so there are fewer of those. The lace we have left is: 1 x Dornroschen 2 x Sanguinell 2 x Orient 2 x Petit Poison Nr. 5 Dark 4 x Rosenrot 5 x Bussi 5 x Pistazie 8 x My Old Blue jeans Please call this week if you  would like to order some. ~ Juju at Loop

wollmeise stand at Knit Nation

Many of you will have heard about Wollmeise coming to Loop! We are ecstatic about the news. Our first delivery will hit the shelves on Saturday, November 6th.  Unfortunately, we can’t make this available online, since Wollmeise in known to crash servers. However, we will take phone orders for it on Monday, November 9th between 11 and 4.  We will not take any phone orders over the weekend! I will post availability on the blog on Sunday, so that you know what is left.

Sometimes fashion likes to shout loud! (Okay, all of the time.) This winter it’s yelling about big, bulky knits, Yeti feet and hooded heads. We hear ya, we hear ya! We, at Loop, have taken up our giant needles to make this bulky cowl that you can wear many ways. There are no buttonholes (easy peasy), but the five horn toggles make it possible to button the cowl any way you want; up the front, round the side, or over the shoulder. Wear it as a cape, a shawl, a cowl or a hood. Warm, versatile, quick, easy and fashionable! …

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A new workshop has just gone up on our classes list.  Lucinda Guy, author of Crochet Designs for Girls and Boys,  and Northern Knits, will teach how to make authentic Scandinavian mittens using the traditional Swedish twined knitting technique. Lucinda will teach Tvaandsstickat, or ‘two-ended’ knitting, where the knitter uses both ends of the same ball of yarn and then twists the two yarns after each stitch, producing a uniform fabric of double thickness. This fabric which is smooth, firm, and less elastic than conventional knitting makes an ideal base for embroidery and is particularly suited to making mittens and …

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Loop will be at the London Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexander Palace this week. The opening times are 10-5:30, Thursday the 7th until Sunday the 10th (closing at 5 on Sunday). We will be bringing along a delicious selection of our yarns and accessories. To see our full range, plan a visit to our shop while you are in London. We will be open at the shop as usual, except that there will be no knit night or late opening on Thursday evening. Hope to see you there! Juju at Loop

We, at Loop, endeavour to bring you the best British Independent dyers’ yarns! Two New beauties have just arrived in our shop ~ Juno and Skein Queen. In the picture above we have  Blush by Skein Queen, knit up in Andrea’s Shawl by Through the Loops (one of our favourite patterns and designers). Blush is a beautiful  hand-dyed, 4 ply yarn in 80% merino and 20% cashmere. The 100 gram skeins provide about 393 metres. It knits up soft and squishy, perfect for a cosy shawl. The colours are soft and delicate with just a hint of variegation. We are …

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You know we love Koigu yarns at Loop! We featured them in our Babette blanket and we have lots of store samples knit in Koigu. Including this sock yarn baby sweater which walked out of the shop, but we loved it so much, we reknit the sample. Well, Koigu love us too and they’re coming to visit! The creative team of  Taiu Landra and Richard Devrieze are coming to preview their book, “Knit from a Painter’s Palette” and show the finished knits at Loop on Tuesday the 5th of October between 5-6:30. Please come along for cake, tea and chat …

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