Happy Monday to you! We have beautiful new things up on the website for you tonight, as well as Contest #4 (in our Eighth Anniversary Celebration) and a sale to celebrate our anniversary as well! Just up, you’ll find:
Blue Moon Fiber Arts Worthy Fingering – Oh, this yarn. It is to.die.for. The yarn base is 65% White Cashmere and 35% Bombyx Silk, so you can imagine how it feels to knit up and to wear. It’s the yarn you need to purchase to make something special for yourself or for a friend. It’s expensive (remember – 65% cashmere, 35% silk), but so worth it. The last time we had it, many of the colors sold out quickly because people bought one, and then came back and bought more when the first skein arrived at their house and they could feel it. It’s worth saving up for. See tonight’s blog post for some pattern ideas. You can also see the shawl that I made with 2 skeins of the Turquoise, here. Shown below in Smoke on the Water and Antiquated System. Need some project ideas? For one-skein projects, try: Gansey Wristers, Precious, Pebble Beach Shawlette, Pretty Basic, Teasdale, and Strangling Vine Lace Scarf. For two-skein projects, try: Spinel, Red Rock Canyon, Stay Awhile, Rising Dawn, The Bay of Fundy Scarf, or Weave It!
The Loopy Ewe Seasonings Series – We’ve re-stocked your favorite Seasoning Series colors! This yarn is exclusive to The Loopy Ewe, and dyed up by the talented people at Lorna’s Laces. Each 430 yard multi-color skein comes with a coordinating solid 100 yard skein, making this a fun yarn for socks with coordinating heels and toes, or shawls, hats, mitts and gloves with coordinating ribs and edging. Check out Pickle Pop, Loopy Lodge, Vacation Day, Cinnamon Toast, and all of the other fun colors in this line. Shown below in Loopy Lodge and Gothic Sweetheart.
Shalimar Breathless – This fingering weight yarn is 75% Superwash Merino, 15% Cashmere, and 10% Silk. Hand-dyed by Kristi in Maryland in wonderful color mixes and semi-solids. I have used Breathless for shawls (like this one and this one) and cowls (like this one) and it continues to be one of the yarns I gravitate to when picking yarn for projects. I love the way it feels to knit, and it’s wonderful to wear. If I was a better sweater knitter, I’d have a sweater out of the Breathless DK, too! Shown below in Love Potion and Limerick. Need project ideas? Try: Summer Dawn, Ballou, Tiger Lily Shawl, Cemara, or Daydream Believer.
Universal Cotton Supreme and Cotton Splash – A worsted weight 100% cotton that comes in 40 different solids, as well as 7 Splash colors. It has been popular for cool sweaters and shawls, as well as baby blankets and kids cardigans.
Universal Bamboo Pop – This sport weight yarn is 50% Bamboo and 50% Cotton and so soft to knit with. Perfect for people who are allergic to wool, but also works well for people who don’t like to be hot. You’ll like it for sweaters, shawls, scarves, cowls, and baby and kid clothes. Machine wash and dry makes it easy care, as well.
Knitter’s Pride needles and interchangeables – Re-stocked.
Sirka Bird Counters – These counters are great if your pattern has multiple rows, sections and stitches to keep track of. It allows you to keep track of three different counts at the same time.
Knitter’s Pride Knit Blocker Sets – This blocking set is designed to help you block sweaters, shawls, scarves and more without using individual pins. You’ll like how you can stretch and block your projects in half the time with this set. (Note – we sold out of these overnight but have plenty more ordered. If you’d like to have us reserve some for you, just shoot us an email: support@theloopyewe.com. They should be back in stock in a couple of weeks!)
Inspiration Knits – new patterns up.
We’ve had fun celebrating our Eighth Anniversary with eight blog contests! (Contest #4 today – be sure to enter!) The winner of last Friday’s contest is Kay L in Vancouver, WA, who wins this beautiful skein of JulieSpins Silky 435 in Vineyard, and a felted accessory pouch from Frabjous Fibers. Congratulations, Kay – we’ll ship this out tomorrow. For our fourth contest today, our question is: How many gift knits will you be working on this fall? (You can also say zero. Maybe you only knit for yourself?) Leave a comment below and we’ll draw a winner on Wednesday, when Blog Contest #5 goes up!
We’re also celebrating by putting all of our exclusive Loopy Lines on sale for 10% off, between today and the end of the month! You’ll receive 10% off on Loopy Celebrations, Loopy Legends, Loopy Cakes, Loopy Solid Series and the Loopy Seasonings Series (re-stocked just in time, right?).
Enjoy all of the new things, and we’ll get your orders packed up and shipped right out!
Sheri and The Loopy Ewe Crew
Probably hats and mittens for my kids.
I just gave two of my shawls to one of my sisters today but I don’t have any other gifts planed for the fall
I just ordered yarn for three projects (and one for me!). So far the list is: 2 cowls and 1 shawl.
Zero knits for me, but many crochet WIP’s. I don’t count them though….I’d rather share my age hehe.
Hopefully at least 1. We are renovating a house, but I want to find time to knit my sister something super special for Christmas. She’s my best friend. 🙂
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I always plan on zero gifts and somehow I end up doing. At least one last minute knit gift!
Currently planned gifts? Only one – a scarf for DH, maybe with a matching hat if I have time. Knitting without him knowing will make this a challenge. Gifts in the end? Who knows! Last minute things always seem to pop up!
I am planning 3 to 5 gifts this year. I thought I would be smart and get a head start, so I planned it so that some of my travel knitting in the spring was also gift knittng. In trying to make the most of my yarn, I overshot and now I need to pull a repeat or two out.
I’m hoping to be able to finish 2 scarves, a double knit cowl, and 2 hats for Christmas presents this year. The problem is that I always have big plans which never seem to pan out. This year I am being slowed down by health issues, but I will continue to look on the bright side!
I knit socks and dishcloths and most of my socks are given as gifts to friends and travelers I meet whilst travelling. Since it will be summer and not winter, I’ll give them away to friends at Christmas
I did a lot of gift knitting earlier this year, so am hoping not to have a lot of last minute knitting this fall 🙂
At least 2pr of socks. That is the minimum.
Hats and cowls for boyfriend and sister. This fall, I plan to learn to my friend how to knit, so she can knit for her baby herself. That counts as a knitting gift too, right?
At least 4……
Maybe 4?
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around 15
Well, if you include charity knitting, at least two! And probably more, but it depends on the available time, and of course the length of the project. The two planned are longer projects, and the one already in progress is a blanket….
Probably one or two…
At least three, I think, including a teapot cosy.
Well, Christmas was kind of cancelled last year due to health issues so I’m hoping to finish knitting the four gifts I had started for last year’s holiday. A shawl and three pairs of fingerless mitts is my goal for this season.
I am not doing any gift knitting so far this fall.
I will be making wristers for the women in my family. It’s what we all can’t seen to have enough of lately.
I have at least one pair of pink socks to make for my daughter-in-law. 🙂
I have a pair of socks on the needles now that need finishing, and plan to make at least four more gifts this fall.
Probably at least 8
I usually knit each daughter a scarf and each son and hubby a hat for Christmas. A grandson hat too. That makes at least 8 things. Yikes. I better get started..
I’m knitting some hats for my son, socks for my son, and some socks for myself. If I have time, maybe a shawl too!
Socks for my son for Christmas, and all the baby stuff I can get done for my first grandbaby due to arrive around Dec 22 😉
Undecided for sure, but probably at least one. I want to knit a Harry Potter scarf for my brother.
I have four pairs of socks to do this fall. Three of the pairs are for our nieces for Christmas, so I have a true deadline for getting them done. 🙂
Gift knits are a year-round occupation. Somehow I always think I’ll get enough done, spread out throughout the year to avoid the scramble in the fall. However, it seems I just get more exaggerated notions of what I’ll be able to accomplish!
After I finish camp Loopy challenge #3, I have a baby sweater to finish. After that back to self-indulgent knitting for me.
I’ve already knitted three and will hope to finish two more!
I will not be making any gifts this year. 0 is my total
Socks!! Everyone is getting a handmade pair of socks! I started working on them right after Christmas last year! (10 pair)
I probably have at least a dozen projects for gifts this season. I think I managed 15 last year (mostly hats and scarves) so we will see what I can finish up by then. Only 120 more days til Christmas!
I am such a slow knitter that the only gifts will be “to me, from me.”
I have one in my UFO pile and one that I must block today, another to be gifted this week and I will probably squeeze in two more. Total is 5…..
Gift knits? A few. Mostly socks for my son-in-law since he really appreciates the hand-knits
I am knitting for me of course, but I’m sure I’ll start a few Christmas gifts this fall. I’m already planning footie socks for my friends. My first Christmas knitting is already finished thanks to Camp Loopy!
I have 7 knit gifts for the Fall. Last year I had 23 and I said this year would be all about me. But, these 7 just have to get something.
There are 18 secretaries at my workplace. Every Christmas I make a knitted item for each. This year I am making Shawlettes. Previously I have done felted purses, scarves, cowls, et. I look forward each year to find a knitted item I think the girls will like.
How many am I planning? Many, many more than I will ever get knit!!! Same as last year!
At leadt five. Maybe more if i dont run out of time. Lol
I’m actually getting ambitious this year with plans to present all the women in my immediate family (4) with Fisherman Wife cowls.
I will be knitting hats for my three daughters this fall.
I’m going to knit a sweater for my granddaughter who is starting seventh grade, a stuffed hedgehog for my grandson and socks for my sister-in-law. The rest is for me!
I will finish a scarf for my sister-in-law I started last year. Maybe a couple of hats for nephews.
I’m hoping to get a couple of pairs of socks done for my mom.
I like giving knitted gifts as the mood strikes me. Knitting on a deadline, like Christmas or Hannukah, makes me unhappy, and the knitting becomes a chore rather than a pleasure. So my holiday knitting # is 0!