Last night was our late-night shopping hours evening. We’re open later the first Thursday of each month. Some Thursday nights are crazy busy, and other nights are calm and laid back. Last night, we had a great group of knitters pop over from Illinois to hang out, shop, and knit. In that group there were experienced knitters and brand new knitters, which is always fun. Some of them were just learning to knit socks and were being encouraged and instructed by the more experienced knitters in their group.
But the unique thing about this group? Some of them were the very first in-person shoppers to visit The Loopy Ewe. Here’s a photo of their first trip, back when Loopy was just a teeny tiny corner of shelves in my basement. They could stand in the middle of it and reach any shelf and any skein of yarn. (I’m not exaggerating.) The thing is, I think they had just as much fun on that first visit as they did on this visit (and all of their visits in between). It doesn’t matter how many shelves of yarn you have – just getting knitting friends and yarn together pretty much guarantees that fun will follow.
I made up a couple of extra Spring Fling Goodie Bags, just so I could share them with you in a blog contest! This year’s bag was a clear vinyl tote with shoulder straps, that came with a yellow-checked Loopy Ewe Mug, a sample of hand lotion, a Loopy sticky note set, and a skein of Wollmeise in a variety of colorways. Would you like to win one? Just leave us a comment below and answer this question: How many years have you been knitting? We’ll draw for the Goodie Bag winners next week.
Sheri hopingyourweekendbringsyourelaxationandsometimetoknit!
7 years knitting and I am teaching my mother and my 4 year old!
I’ve been knitting for about 5 years. I taught myself so I could knit soakers for my baby. She’s 4.5 now and I never knit a single one.
I decided to try my hand at knit ting in June 2009 so I’m approoaching my 2nd year knit-anniversary in just a few weeks : )
I have been knitting for about 20 years…with a few breaks. I have taught myself to knit socks( in the last year) and buy sock yarn! Should have enough for the next 20 years 🙂
I am currently trying my hands at a shawl. I figure that I can use up some of that sock yarn even faster and make room for more…
Been knitting for 4 years now and love it!
Only about 2.5 years. Wish I could have gone to the Spring Fling!!
Woot!
Eight!
Well, my sister and I taught ourselves from one of my Mom’s old knitting books when I was about 7 years old. So, 40 – 7=33. Yikes! No wonder I have so much stash! 😀
I first learned to knit in college, but it didn’t ‘stick’. I began knitting in earnest about 7 years ago.
I started knitting about 7 years ago. One of my best friends picked it up shortly before me, and purposely got me hooked (not that it was hard to do!). I’ve always been the artsy-crafty one, and she told me she did it so I’d get better at it and she’d have someone to come to with problems. *L* It’s good to have knitting friends!
About five years.
I started knitting seriously 1 year ago and I’m totally addicted. I wish I could knit faster to make more stuff.
I’ve been knitting off and on for 52 years! Mom taught my brother (age 7) and I (age 5) to keep us distracted as we both had chicken pox. How she did it I don’t know, as my younger brothers were 2 and 1 at the time!
I’ve been knitting off and on for about 50 years(Did I just say that????). Since we moved 2 years ago, I’ve joined 2 knitting groups and have really jumped into it as a passion. I’ve found “sock” knitting and so on…Loving it. Wish I could have been at Spring Fling. Someday.
I’ve been knitting almost 4 years now. I’ve been crocheting as long as I can remember, though.
I have been knitting on and off for 20 years 🙂
I’ve been knitting on & off over 50 years. Since retiring 4 years ago it’s been very on-learning dps and socks, socks, socks! Wish I had started sooner.
I’ve been knitting since I was a child, but had a big gap. Probably been knitting in earnest for about 5 years now; started with lots of stuff for my boys and now I’m a selfish knitter and spinner with a hankering to try new yarns.
I’ve been knitting for about 6 years and I’ve been crocheting for about 25 years. And I just started teaching my 10 year old how to knit! 🙂
My left-handed mama tried to teach my right- handed self to knit from the time I was about 7 years old, but it took being pregnant with my first child when I was 32 for me to finally get it. That child is now 25 and a mother herself, and she’s been knitting since she was 7.
I have been knitting for 6 years
My 6 year knit-iversary is coming up VERY soon!
6 years for me too – wow, time flies!
Been knitting only since 2008! But my collection of yarn shows as if I’ve knitted since I was a baby 😀
5 years!
Well, I learned to knit in high school (almost 40 years ago) and knit for a while then and then didn’t pick it up again until 6 years ago. Been knitting steadily for those last six years though!
About two years now!
Three years for me!
47 years – on and off.
Wow, amazing how customers become friends and stay loyal with you. Not really surprising since TLE have always felt more like an extension of my own home than a yarn shop. Even though you are on the other side of the world. 🙂
I have been knitting for a total of 32 months now, and I have so much more knitting adventures to take and learn from!
I learned back in high school while an exchange student in Germany – my German brother made great sweaters! Finally picked it up again 5 years ago, and it’s really grabbed hold of me this time.
I’ve been knitting for more than 50 years.
I’ve been doing needlework of one kind or another for about 40 years. I learned to knit when I was in junior high, but did not do alot of it until about three years ago.
To be honest, I don’t remember how many years (I don’t remember learning). I remember being able to make things 20 years ago, but the most likely person who taught me passed away five years before that, so quite likely I’ve known how to knit for 25 years. But I’ve really gotten into knitting and crochet about 10 years ago.
Oh, cool prizy!!! I’ve been knitting since December 2005, so almost five and a half years. My friend, Pat, wisely started me on a felted bag. Wisely, because I would have gotten bored with a scarf; I learned lots of different techniques in that first project; and a messed up stitch didn’t matter at all, because I felted the crud out of it! 🙂
i’ve been knitting twenty-two years – i was taught by a family friend one summer when i was six!
I’ve been knitting for about a year and a half now. I’m a late bloomer 🙂 I love it and wish I would have learned years ago.
I taught myself to knit about13 years ago.
I began to knit in the fall of 2007, while on bed rest with my son. How much time I’ve spent on the needles since! Thank you, husband, who when I sent you to buy me a crochet book so I could make something NEW, instead you bought me a knitting book. 🙂
I’ve been knitting for over 27 years now – my mother taught me when I was a child.
I’ve been knitting for 15 years and love it as much today as I did when I first learned how to handle two pointy sticks without impaling myself!
I’ve been seriously knitting for about 7 years, but first learned 20 years ago.
I came to this all backwards – been spinning for 6 years and knitting for five 🙂
3 years I think? Maybe 4. Now if I could just learn to knit faster.
I’ve been knitting for 3 years. What a wonderful hobby!
I’ve been knitting for 3 years.
I’m a 30 heater crocheted who needed a different repetitive motion activity when the arthritis in my thumbs got bad. Could never learn to knit, until an acquaintance said, do you know the Europeans knit differently than Americans? That sentence changed my life five years ago.
I guess I’ve been knitting for three years now? I started during my second year at university, and I’m now about to graduate. Strange to put it in that context!
I’ve been knitting for about 10 years now, and my day isn’t complete without knitting a few stitches.
I have been knitting for 6 years and crocheting for 50 yrs.