…. so many things! But I’ll give you the ones that (mostly) relate to The Loopy Ewe:
1. I’m thankful for all of YOU. We would have no business without you. You keep us on our toes, and you make stocking the shop fun. You’re at the top of our list and we’re always happy to have you here.
2. The indie dyers who trust us to represent and showcase their beautiful lines. Such talent in that group, and we’re grateful to share their art with you.
3. The “big” yarn companies who are so wonderful to work with. (Big is in quotes because even though they are big, most all of them work hard to be personal and friendly in all of their dealings.)
4. Coffee and chocolate. There might be a little stress going on with this cross-country December move of ours, and coffee and chocolate are helping. (I know that I should say knitting is helping, too, but my knitting time is going to be limited for a bit….). Coffee and chocolate are staples in our Loopy kitchen.
5. The St. Louis Loopy Elves. They’re forever a part of the Loopy family (meaning their impact here will last forever, but it also means that they get a Forever Loopy Employee Discount, and a forever free place to stay when they want to visit Colorado in the future. Also? A forever job if they realize that they’re tired of the St. Louis humidity next summer and want to move to the mountains. I keep hoping.).
6. The moving company that will be taking all of Loopy’s earthly possessions and driving it cross-country in a week or so. If you see a bright yellow Exodus moving van in Missouri/Kansas/Colorado the first weekend in December, you might want to ambush it and plunder the yarn. (On second thought, don’t plunder. Let’s make sure it arrives safe and sound in one piece.)
7. Your patience. I know you don’t like No-Update Mondays. I don’t either. But we are stockpiling a bunch of great yarn for our first post-move December update here in Colorado, on the 12th!
8. Stash enhancing. Ok – beyond the coffee and chocolate stress busters, I’m also picking yarn to add to my stash. I might not be able to knit for a bit, but I can still dream about future projects in wonderful colors. And I do have cases and cases of yarn sitting at my house, waiting for your next Monday Update. What’s a knitter to do?
9. The Colorado Loopy Elves. They know they have a lot to live up to (because they know you all love the St. Louis Elves) but they are ready for the challenge. I promise you, they are bringing their own kind of awesome to The Loopy Ewe. We wouldn’t have it any other way.
10. A long holiday weekend with my family. Nothing is as refreshing as spending time with the people I love the most. I hope you’re doing the same!
In honor of my Top Ten Gratitude List, we’re giving away 5 prizes. I’ve picked out 5 skeins from 5 different indie dyers and we’ll pick five winners. Will you be one? Leave a comment and let us know what you’re thankful for, even if you’re not celebrating an official Thanksgiving holiday this week! Prize winners will be announced on Friday’s blog (where we’ll have another Gratitude Week giveaway).
We have five winners of a copy of the Skinner Hat from Monday’s blog, and I’ve emailed the winners. Congratulations to Analiese in NY, Anna in WA, Lael in WI, Sarah in AL and Lisa in VA!
Sheri wishingthoseintheU.S.aHappyThanksgiving!
(P.S. So that the Loopy Elves can enjoy a long weekend with their own families, we won’t be shipping orders today, Thursday and Friday. You can still place orders 24/7, and we’ll ship them out on Monday and Tuesday of next week.)
I am thankful that I have recovered about 95% from my stroke last year. After 23 days in the hospital and outpatient therapies, I am BACK! And still getting better every day, just a lot more slowly than I was at first.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I am thankful for my family and friends. Without them my life wouldn’t be complete. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
After camping outside in near freezing temperatures near an nonfunctional restroom, I am EXTREMELY grateful for indoor plumbing and heat.
I’m thankful that I found the Loopy Ewe here in St. Louis this summer before you left for Colorado. It was fun coming into the shop, but you’ll only be one click away! Oh yeah, my family, health, and those things too! Happy Thanksgiving All!
I am thankful to be blessed with a wonderful family that has always been there for me and each other.
So very thankful for my family, my health, and my faith.
I am thankful for my darling grandchildren and their wonderful parents who have enriched my life beyond all my expectations 🙂
Family of course, and that fixing the rattle in the car won’t be costing a fortune and eating into my knitting funds.
I am so thankful for my 3 healthy, beautiful, intelligent children – they bring me joy each day.
And for a kind and yarn supportive husband I am grateful as well.
I am thankful for all that I have — wonderful family and friends, two jobs (my day job and my design job) that I love, a good place to live, my health, you name it! We have multiple friends who have suffered losses this past week (human and pet), and I am thankful that I can offer my support to them.
I am thankful that after 40 years my husband and I are still madly in love with each other. For my 4 sons who have given me my greatest joy, 6 grandkids and the fact that they all still live within 30 minutes of home. Also, my wonderful Great Dane, Guinness, who is the definition of unconditional love and is the best stress reliever ever.
I am thankful for the fact that I’m still employed and have disposable income to spend on things like yarn 🙂
I’m thankful for a good job (where I can knit if the phones are not busy!), for a roof over my head, good health…my 3 doggie children, doggie grandchildren as well. I’m thankful for a good daughter who has a good head on her shoulders….she doesn’t knit but she patiently sat one whole day and helped me wind all my yarn into cakes!
Happy Thanksgiving!
P.S. The yarn I ordered last week is GORGEOUS!!!
I’m thankful for the huge pile of unflolded clean laundry that usually graces my living room because it means that I have a family, clean running water, electricity, a living room, a washer and dryer, plenty of warm clothes to wear…and more interesting things to do than fold laundry!
I’m thankful for my families–my brother and his family and my knitting family. I’m glad that I have many knitting friends across the US and other places. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thankful that Mom’s passing was peaceful and painless, thankful for the world’s most patient, understanding and loving husband, thankful my son survived guilliame-Barre syndrome, thankful all my children, and grandchildren are healthy, happy, and have homes. Thankful for yarn. It kept me sane. Thankful for music, chocolate, coffee, all my knitterly friends, virtual and Internet. Thankful to be done with pneumonia! Just plain thankful.
I’m thankful for my ‘imaginary friends’, my knitting friends on Ravelry.
I am thankful for my girls, whom I never thought I’d have. I am thankful for my husband who is great father and takes good care of us!
I am thnkful for the people in my live who make me smile and bring me joy. You know who you are 🙂 But on the top of that list are my two great kids and my son’s girlfriend.
I am thankful for the lady who taught me to knit, my friend Mary. I can’t imagine my life without being able to create lovely hand-knitted items. I really don’t know what I did before knitting, and never want to be without it again. I’m also very thankful for gainful employment that allows me to indulge in my knitting habit. Knowing how to knit, and having beautiful yarns to knit with, makes me a very thankful person indeed.
I’m thankful for friends, family, and having a job this year!
I’m thankful for my mom, she’s always been there for me and always will be.
I’m thankful for my gorgeous, lovely dog Theodor, I think I love him like a parent loves their child!
I’m thankful for discovering the Loopy Ewe, all your fantastic yarn and awesome customer service!
I’m thankful for yarn. I love yarn.
I’m thankful for alpaca.
I’m thankful for merino.
I’m thankful for cashmere.
I’m thankful for silk.
I’m thankful for knitting.
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Happy thanksgiving! 😀
I’ Thankfull that my husband and I have jobs, my kids, a really good Lys accross town, the Loopy ewe online for wonderful customer service!!
I’m thankful that I’m one year cancer free.
I’m thankful that our family has the means to travel this holiday season and all be together for Christmas! So looking forward to it!
I am thankful for my amazing and supportive husband , children and grandchild! They all have different and wonderful ways of telling me they love me…and I LOVE it! 🙂
I’m so very thankful for our newborn son, my beyond wonderful husband and that you are coming to Colorado!
I’m thankful for my loved ones, my home, and a life that affords me time to enjoy hobbies such as knitting.
I am currently thankful for my fiance. I’m near the end of writing my master’s thesis and he has been incredibly supportive in keeping me afloat.
I am thankful for so many things that if I start I will become one big puddle of tears so I just wish one and all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
May the move across country go smoothly. I have moved so many times now but I would not mind opening all those great boxes of yarn, patterns, needles, and did I mention yarn. So happy unpacking those great boxes….
I’m thankful my children are picking up the reins of their lives and making choices/progress towards creating the life *they* each want to live. And I’m grateful I have a husband I love and who supports my endless yarn buying habits!
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Loopy Ewe family!
I am thankful for my darling husband, my wonderful family, and amazing friends.
I am thankful that my family and friends both near and far are happy and healthy.
Happy Thanksgiving Sheri!
I’m thankful for my family’s health, which at times we take for granted. No more! Happy Thanksgiving Sheri and the Loopy Elves!!!
I am thankful for this year. And for the knitting that kept me sane through the two before it.
I am most thankful for God sending his only son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins so that I have eternal life through him!
My husband and kiddos are a close 2nd!
And a big thank you to you Sheri for providing such wonderful lovlies!
My son and his family lost their home to a fire last weekend. By the grace of God no one was home (although my son did go in to rescue one of his dogs). I’m thankful that they are safe and sound. I’m thankful that they are learning that there are many, many good people in this world. It’s events like this that make you stand up and take notice that there are so many little things in life to be grateful for.
I am thankful for all of my family and their good health. Also my husband who doesn’t mind putting up with all of my knitting STUFF.He knows that it keps me happy!!!!
Even though my house is in need of very expensive renovation work, I am thankful that I do have a house. I’m thankful for the fact that running my own business means I can do what I love for a living. I’m thankful for the presence in my life of all the people I love.
I am so thankful to my parents and grandparents who instilled wonderful values in me and gave me unconditional love. No child could ask for a better upbringing. I miss them so and would give anything to be able to tell them how much I appreciate all they did for me.
I’m thankful for my family and friends, and of course so much more!
I’m thankful that I have a job I love , a warm and comfortable home, my animals that love me no matter what, and my friends and family of choice. I’m thankful for the friends that respond to my call for Random Acts of Kindness in memory of my mom, whose 79th birthday would have been Thanksgiving day. I’m thankful for my knitting–because we know it keeps me from killing someone!
I’m thankful for good friends and family!!!
And thanks for the yarn!!!
I am most thankful for my family. I am very lucky to have a great husband and 3 healthy & happy kids. My extended family is also wonderful, and I have several friends that I include as part of my family. I am very blessed!
I’m grateful for my job, my “fur family,” and a son who LIKES to cook Thanksgiving dinner every year (even if it does involve my having to watch some football . . . .).
I’m thankful for my wonderful husband you doesn’t understand but completely supports my knitting/spinning/quilting habits.
I’m thankful my parents, especially my mom who is my best friend. And of course yarn, chocolate and warm weather for Thanksgiving.
My “I’m Thankful” list would be pages and pages, but today, right this second, I’m thankful that I finally live close enough to my grandmother that I can pop down for Thanksgiving, even though I’m too pregnant to travel.
I am thankful for The Loopy Ewe because without it, I would have a hard time getting yarn that I need for my projects.
I am thankful for family, friends, living in the U.S., being protected by our military. So much more, but I want to keep it short.