We have a super easy contest for you this month. See this pretty mannequin? We need a name for her. She’ll be modeling hats, scarves, and cowls here at Loopy Central, but so far a name has eluded us. She looks rather 40’s-ish, doesn’t she? Or maybe not. So the contest for the month – leave a blog comment with your name suggestion OR tell us your grandparents first names in the comments section. We might find a good name from one of your grandparents, too. (And that way, we’ll have a good man-name in case we add a guy mannequin at some point.) We’ll choose the name that we think fits her best! If you suggested it, we’ll be sending you some Wollmeise. (If more than one person suggests the same name, we’ll draw for it.) We’ll also do a random draw from all of the comments, for another winner of Wollmeise, just because we want to. (By the way, I missed Blog De-Lurk day on Monday, so today would be a good day to do your annual de-lurk here on the blog – and get into the contest at the same time!)
Update on things here: We all need a bit of a Wollmeise Breather. 🙂 The two Customs-stuck boxes have come in, but the yarn needs to be photoed and put up and I’m heading out to CA on Friday. So – no Wollmeise for awhile. We haven’t decided about next week yet. And speaking of leaving, I’ll be back to the blog on Monday with another Loopy Limelight. (Thanks for all of your fun emails and comments about the Limelights. It is fun for me to share more about these wonderful dyers and knitters with you, and I’m glad you like it, too.) Next Monday’s Limelight features the indie dyer whose sock yarn I’m currently knitting into a sock. Wonderful stuff.
Monday: there’s no mail here in the U.S., so we’ll all off that day. (Me? I’ll be recovering from a very quick weekend in CA. The Elves? Spending time with their kids, who will also be off that day.) All orders from Friday noon, through Monday evening, will begin shipping on Tuesday morning. I hope you all have a nice long weekend, if you’re lucky enough to have Monday off, too!
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She strikes me as a Millie – thoroughly modern, ya know?
She looks like a Penalope!
My grandparents name were: Clay and Louise
My grandmother was a flapper!
My grandparents names are Velda and Robert and Sadie and Arthur. I think either Velda or Sadie would work for her. She is very cool!
The first name I thought of was Lola. Though I like Geraldine and Blanche, too.
Grandparent’s names:
Alberta (“Abby”)
Sylvanus
Gary
Joyce
As soon as I saw her face, she just looked like a Luella (or maybe spelled LouElla) to me. Love her little mole!
Monique….definitely Monique
I think she looks like a Marcella.
Or she could share my grandma’s name of Millie.
My Grandmother’s name was Marvel. My other Grandmother was Opal. I think she’s a “marvelous jewel.” My G-Grandmother was Della Mae. My mother was Lavonne. How about Loopy Lavonne?
Grandfather’s were Vernon, Karlton and Howard.
I received my order today with my Namaste Zuma peacock bag…& grapevine yarn..my bag is beautiful..can’t wait to use it..thank you thank you…have a great trip
She looks like an Eliza to me.
Grandparents – Walter, Suzanne & Amalia
My grandparents names are Hazel and Tom, and Marie and Rudolf. Actually, Marie would be a nice name for the mannequin! 🙂
She DOES look a little like Velma Kelly but her name is Viv. Vivian. (life). She was my Grandma’s best friend. She never married; she called herself a “career gal”. She had the most amazing clothes, she got her hair and nails done every single week and she drove the most beautiful turquoise blue T-Bird. The original, real T-bird that could get a speeding ticket while it was still in the garage. If it was new, chic, original and fun, Viv had it. She was fabulous. And now she lives at the Loopy Ewe. You are SO lucky!
I rather think your mannequin looks like silent film star, Louise Brooks. Here’s a photo of her:
http://www.ironicsans.com/images/louisebrooks.jpg
Therefore, I think a fitting name for your hat model would be “Lou.” Or Lulu. She looks like a flapper girl and needs that sort of a name, don’t you think?
Trish
Both of my grandmas were named Claire, My first thought was to name her Clover, and I think she looks a bit like Claudette Colbert:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/
Why all with the letter C I don’t know.
I didn’t read all of the comments, so this may not be an original thought. The first name I thought of was Lupita.
Nothing too exciting with my grandparents – Martina and Peter, John and Kate. My aunt has the most, um, interesting name in the family – Lena Cornelia. She was named, in the Dutch tradition, after her father’s parents.
Estessa. She looks just like an Estessa. (pronounced ess-tess-a).
She definitely looks like a Claudia to me. My grandparents have really old fashioned names. Marjory and Priscilla, and Cliff and Angus. Angus is back as a popular name now.
mmm, just thinking what I could do with my first skein of Wollmeise.
My great great grandmothers were Carmen and Mercedes 🙂 Good luck with the name. There are alot of good ones.
Man, I thought I was never going to get to the end of the suggestions. Don’t have time to read them now, so hope that I am not repeating someone else’s suggestions.
I think her name should be Betty Loop. My grandmother’s names were Talulah Maude and Abigail Viola. My second to the youngest grand-daughter is named Abbey in her honor, and my youngest is named :Lilly Viola also in her honor.
I think her name is Daphne.
My grandmother’s name was Nellie, but she made everyone call her Nelle – I think ms mannequin is definitely a Nelle.
My grandparents names were:
Rose Estelle
George
Bertha
Nicholas
Other suggestions….Lillian, Clarisse, Eloise, Daphne….hmmm..so many!
Hi, I don’t envy you, there are so many good choices, so many women and men who are remembered in love. She is really beautiful. In the spirit of honoring my grandmother and great grandmother, both were knitters and crocheters. I would like to submit their names.
Adele Antoinette
Victorine
For the man whom I am sure will be handsome, I would like to submit my great grandfather’s name.
Carlo Antoino, or his brother’s name Fabiano Lorenzo.
Thank you for giving us all this opportunity to share with each other the love of family and friends, good luck with your contest.
Lisa
My Aunts name is Ada and she looks just like her. Very trendy for the 40’s and a knitting flight attendant to boot!! You could title the next blog entry ” Ada Adores Knitting” LOl Hugs. JoyB
If you go with my grandparents names, you might possibly get some international flavor!
My grandmothers are/were Inga and Hilkka. And my grandfathers are/were Matti and Erkki. 🙂
My grandparents were – Patrick and Ione and Jim and Isobel. I prefer Isabella though and James is so much nicer. It all sounds very Irish doesn’t it? We aren’t, all Australian here.
Some of my aunts _ Theodora ( called Ruth), Augusta (called Mary), Shelia, Patricia, Janet and my mum is Margaret.
Hi Sheri,
Voolma instead of Velma.
Mortimer for her male other half.
Gparents: Priscilla & Arthur
Cora & Caleb
I think Giselle. She looks a little exotic, but with an impish side to her. (Can’t go with my grandmothers names – she’s definitely not a Lydia or a Mary.)
Looks like a Bettye or Loraine to me
Grandmas were Lena and Wilma, great Aunts were Opal and Pearl
My suggested : Gigi – after Leslie Caron in the movie of the same name….
I didn’t add my granny names they were:
Bernice
Virginia
Great grannys:
Concetta
Dessa
My grandparents’ names were Fern and Byron and Florence and Bez.
How about Violet McGee ( Head Model Extraordinare!!)
She looks like an Emma to me!!
At first glance I thought Lucille would be a good name for her. I don’t think I’ve seen that name yet.
My Grandparents were –
Rose and Henry
Robert and Dorothy, also know for some reason as Mike which I thought was really cool. My 85 year old grandmother till the day she died was called Mike.
Have a fabulous trip!
Edith definitely. It was my mom’s name and my 16-year old daughters name. Of course we call her EDIE for short, which my mom went by also. Very chic, stylish, adorable and UNIQUE!!!!!
I thought Cleo when I saw her….or Coco.
Grandparents: Marcella, Florence, Jake and Gerald
I always liked one of my Greats’ name: JoHannah
Happy Weekend! 🙂
How about Florence (one of my grandmothers) or perhaps Gertrude (the other one). Florence is such a pretty name but I kinda like Gertie as well!
Marie! She says Marie to me. My grandparents name were Dora, Edna, Lee and Bill.
My grandparents were Sadie and Lou Page, Florence and Isadore.
Grandma had 5 sisters- Rose, Zelda, Katie, Bertha, and Ella.
Happy MLK day!
She looks a little more 20’s to me, rather than 40’s. Those were older names like Fanny, Annabelle, Ruth and Mary (all aunts of mine from that era)
Grandparents Lena and Fred
and Ethel and Elkanah
yep, I’m from Bible country on the last one
She looks like a Gabrielle to me, which is also the name of one of my grandmother, the other one was Juliette. My grandfathers’s name are Edouard and Joseph-Alexandre.
Danielle
She looks like Claudette to me (very glamorous!) or maybe Lucrezia like my great-grand-mother.
Happy new year Loopy Ewe!
I like Gigi or Bridgette.
My grandparents’ names were:
Garnet, Margharet, Leon, Bob
She looks like Mademoiselle Monique to me.
Collette? Vivienne?
Others have mentioned silent film stars-the one she reminds me of is Alice Joyce-she is tres chic 🙂
My pick is Ava for Ava Gardner.
My grandparents names were
Jeanie and Freddie
Catherine and Tom
Thanks for the contest
She looks like a Monique to me. Grandparents names are Mary and Lillian. Happy new year!