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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I think she looks like a Knitvonia. Grandparents names here were Emmaline and Fanny Ellen. Double first names are a southern custom. Other family names are Mary Oline, Emma Dell and Linda Lee. And yes, we go by both names.
Have fun ,
Mary Lynn
I think she looks like a Lola too.
GP’s – Frank and Katherine and Byron and Grace.
Magdalena. My great-grandmother’s name. She always wanted a namesake 😉
I suggest Stella.
Grandparents: Jennie Beech (yes all together) and John, Margaret and John
I really like Millicent. Really.
The first name that came to me was Mandy. Then Marcella, a feminized version of my grandfather’s name, Marcell. His wife was Addie.
My mother’s parents names were Samuel and Alice Nora Ella. Yes, three names. I don’t know which name she preferred since she died when my mother was 18, 30 years before I was born!
Beth
I think Bette, for Bette Davis. She definitely has Bette Davis eyes!
My grandparents are Ray and Georgia, and Frank and Chelsie
My grandparents were Mary Bertha and Julius, and Sarah Adeline and Will. Personally, the name that comes to me is my mother’s middle name, Edith. It could be shortened to Edie. The male could be Eddie.
Leona (that was my husband’s grandmother’s name!) or Elvira.
My grandmothers’ names were Adelaide and Florence.
My grandparents’ names were: Jane Anne and Harry
I think she looks like a Vanessa.
Roxie for sure! My grandparents names : Bessie, Robert (Bob), Martha, Walter
Regina, Gina to close friends…
Grandparents were Herman and Margarite and Martha and Leonard.
But I think she looks like a greta
I’d guess 20s, not 40s.
My grandparents names were:
Agnes and Ray
Mary and Kene
I really like the name Lola or Velma. She looks like Velma Kelly from the musical Chicago to me. 🙂
My Grandparents’ names are:
Art and Masil
Oma and Darrell
I think she looks like Belulah, a flapper girl from the Roaring 20’s.
My Grandparents were Elsie and Thomas and Elsie and William. Funny both grandmothers had the same first name!
I like Caroline.
Happens to also be my grandma’s name. The other was Anita. The grandpa’s were Paul and George.
Greta (Garbo)
Bella (means beautiful in Italian)
Ewa instead of Eva
Lilly
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my Grandparents (all German) Elisabeth and Lucas, Frieda Emma and Paul
but how about my Mom: Gabriele Ruth Hanna Frederike
oder you could call her Schaefchen (that’s German for a small lam:)
She looks French to me, so I looked up the following words: Wool, Loop, Loopy and the direct translations were Laine, Boucle, and Timbre. I thought she looks like a
Zoe Boucle
My grandmother’s name was Minerva and my grandfather’s name was James.
I think her name should be Sophie Wackles.
I vote for Gigi or Lola.
Grandma = Annastasia
Grandpa = Cornelius
Flora. Simple, beautiful, expressive.
I was thinking Tallulah, my self.
My grandparents names are Margaret and Edward (how Victorian do those sound?) and Neila and Clarence (he went by Casey)
I think Olivia. or Ella or Stella
My grandparents names were
Joyce Mae
Raymond Thomas
Mary Evelyn
Hildon
I think Lola or Lolita, keeping an L name to go with loopy. What a great showpiece!
Natasha – or really I like “Queen of Loopiness” better!
I have to go with Heddy L’Ewe!
AND, I love her.
I don’t know if anyone posted yet but I think she looks like a Lulu Belle to me. Of course my Great grandmother and my daughter’s name is Delia. Sounds rather retro to me. And both are/ were very stylish!
Loopy Lola!!!!!!!!!!!!
My grandmother’s name was Barbara. I think she looks like a Barbara or Babs for short. My other grandmother was Jane and the 2 grandfathers were Ken and Albert.
I hope I’m not blowing her cover, but she looks like the infamous wool spy
Na-stasha Loopeweva
How about that a play on the Carol Burnett character,Eunice and then of course you have to add a middle name but instead of spelling it Louise…. Loo-ease. Therefore, Ewenice Loo-ease. She is beautiful but she should represent the name of your wonderful business.
Loretta and Herman
Mildred and Celestain
Loopy Loretta sounds nice.
well, on one side of the family, the grandparents were Willard and Alice. On the other side of the family, they were Alan and Gail.
🙂
I think her name should be Mini which was my grandmother’s name. If you get a male they could be Mini and Max!
She’s got the gorgeous glam of a Betty Boop or Betty Page, so I’d have to go with:
Betty!
My grandmothers and great-grandmother had some marvelous names:
Charlotte, Clara, and Lillian!
I think any of those would be fabulous 🙂
Good luck reading through hundreds of entries, I hope it’s fun!
She is very french looking to me. How about combining some french words associated with knitting?
Fil-yarn
Tricoter-to knit
Fou-loppy
brebis-ewe
Maybe Fil Tricoteror Fou Brebis!
my grandparents were AuthurEugene/Edna Catherine Clair/Sally Mae/Roland
I would name her Thoroughly Modern Millie. My grandparents names weren’t that unusual we had Emil & Dorothy and Louise and Noble but if you want to go back further we had better names like Temperance, Serepta, Lottie and Martha.
She would be a lovely URSULA. Alluring, stylish and elegant!
First name that popped into my head when I looked at her was Lola.
My grndparents were Karl and Alma
And Herman and Vera
Have a wonderful weekend in sunny CA
I think she looks like a Lucy….Lu, for short and called Loopy Lu (Lou?) when she gets a little out of control.
My grandmothers’ names? That’s easy, I have them. My great grandmother was living at the time and I was the first girl born on both sides of the family, and my mother didn’t want to offend any of them, so I was named after my great grandmother and maternal and paternal grandmothers.
Katherine
Ann
Elizabeth
She appears to have a Marilyn Monroe personality…sexy, sophisticated and definitely stylish…I believea good name would be Norma Jean, which is also my mother’s name,
My grandmothers were Mildred and Isabelle, both worthy contenders! That said, I’m fond of Lola for your lady…
Looperella!
My grandmothers are Madeline and Inez. She looks more like a Madeline/Maddie than an Inez, I think.
I looked at her and thought “Lulu” It was my great aunt’s name. Loopy Lulu!!
My grandparents were Stella ,(which would also work), Charles, Raymond and Genevieve, which I also like for that lovely lady.
Diane
She looks like a Velma to me…
She could also be a Suzanne….
My grandmothers were Ruth Sue and Irene Suzanne
My Grandfathers we Frank and Cary
My grandmothers’ names were Clara and Florence, both fine, period names for fine, period women. However, I lean toward Millie, because the face makes me think of Thoroughly Modern Millie…
Name suggestion – Anita Knit
My grands names were Evelyn and Annabelle
My grandparents were Kathleen & Harold and Gwendolen & Alphonse – none of which I’d pick for your mannequin! I think Vivian would be striking for her, or Belinda, Billie for short!
My grandmothers are called Bibbi and Magny. But this one very much looks like a Dora to me *nods*