Wonderful Kits for Holiday Gifts
We love giving kits as gifts. They’re a blast to pick out and they keep the festive feeling alive long after the tinsel has come down. Plus, there’s no guess work about how much yarn or fabric you really need.
This holiday season we’ve created some incredible new kits with world-class artists and high-quality materials as well as bringing back some of our favourites from over the years. If you’re stumped for what to get the crafter in your life—or what to put on your own wish list—you’re sure to find something here to delight!
We’re thrilled to have a brand new kit from Aitor Saraiba that looks at the themes and motifs of the night using one-of-a-kind textiles hand-sourced by Aitor himself. The Nocturne Kit includes hand-drawn embroidery templates, a large piece of fabric to use as a base, and an assortment of smaller pieces to arrange to your heart’s content and stitch using the wonderful threads provided. This kit was a true labour of love, with Aitor carefully sourcing and selecting every item and detail. The original piece was made using only simple running stitch, so it’s appropriate for stitchers of all skill levels. You can create something similar to Aitor’s example piece or let your imagination run wild! Our Loop + Aitor Special Embroidery Box featuring textile and stitching treasures from around the world chosen by Susan and Aitor would also be a real treat for any crafter. Wonderful threads, hand-drawn embroidery templates, and rare fabric swatches make this collection a true treat!
Our exclusive Loop + Atsumi Embroidery Kit of Nature Motifs is also new for the holiday season. We are super honoured to be able to have this special kit, which brings to life one of Atsumi’s designs from An Embroidered Book of Natural History Motifs using the same colours as her original work. The meticulous and detailed drawings of a variety of flora and fauna make for a wonderful finished piece, which can be mounted or turned into a pillow or tote bag. With a little patience, even a beginner could follow the pattern and stitch guide. This would make a great gift for someone looking to improve their needle skills in the new year, or just a stitcher with a love of nature.
For the person on your list who’s always on the go, our Boulettes Scarflette Kit is just the ticket. Loop’s own crochet granny square pattern featuring lovely Laines Vilaines yarns is easy to master, and you can bring along just the yarn you need for the squares you’re working on. You can custom select the colour combination for each square, and how you stitch together your granny squares is totally up to you as well—some people prefer two squares across, others like a bit more width. We have all three of our original colourways for this kit in stock, and they each bring their own personality to the finished piece!
We’ve also curated a few kits from tried and true lovely bits at Loop. Our Loop Haberdashery Kit is a collection of tools and materials we think should be in every knitter’s arsenal. The fabulous pieces in this hand-picked selection include Flamingo Flower Power Scissors, a Loop Tape Measure, a Degen Needle Gauge, a Loop Songbird Small Tin, and many more goodies. It comes in a custom Loop Canvas Pouch, which zips securely to keep everything in one place and invites you to add your own favourites. Our Loop Beginner Knitting Kit is soup to nuts everything you need to go from never having held knitting needles to making them click along like a pro. With knitting needles, three skeins of yarn, an instruction book and pattern, plus essential haberdashery bits, you simply can’t go wrong! If you or someone you love want to start knitting this winter, everything you need is in this kit.
We’ve also given our Loop Blanket Kit Baby + Junior a makeover in lovely CaMaRose Løvfald yarn. Originally designed using CaMaRose Hverdagsuld, this new version is even cuter, even cuddlier, even more wonderful than the original. Trine of CaMaRose has tweaked the original pattern to make sure it’s perfect for Løvfald and the kit comes in two sizes—the baby version comes with six colours of Løvfald and the junior version includes nine colours. Best of all, this reversible blanket looks very advanced and polished even though the pattern is very easy to follow and simple to achieve! This is the perfect gift for parents- or grandparents-to-be!
Finally, some of our favourite wonders from the marvellous Mette Mehlsen have returned. Mehlsen naturally dyed yarns are really like nothing else. So fine and so subtle, when you work with them you can almost feel like you’re on a woodland walk with Mette as she collects her dye materials from the wilds of Jutland, Denmark, where she lives. We’re delighted to have the Wildwood Kit in the “Forest Lake” and “Rose” colourways and the Zinnia Kit in “Rhubarb” in stock. These crochet scarves are elevated pieces that show off the beauty of Mette’s wonderful yarns gorgeously. Sophisticated and elegant from the first stitch to the finished scarf’s first outing, these kits would make an incredibly special gift.
If you’re still stumped as to what to give the crafty people on your gift list this year, our Winter Holiday Gifts section is here to help! Whether you want to treat your favourite knitter to a full set of knitting needles or make a bespoke haberdashery kit of your own, we’re confident something will catch your eye.
Wishing you joy!