Today we’re celebrating our Ninth Loopy-versary! We can hardly believe that it has been nine years. In August of 2006 we put the website online with a handful of yarn companies represented, and crossed our fingers and said a prayer that it would work.
It sure has been fun to share yarn, fabric, projects, ideas and inspiration with you over the past nine years. YOU ALL are our favorite part of The Loopy Ewe and we love being with you on this adventure. We look forward to many more years of sharing beautiful yarn, fabrics and ideas with you. There are always new things to see, do and share!
For today’s Monday Yarn Update, we have two new Loopy things to share, in celebration of our Loopy-versary.
1. Loopy’s Paintbox Sets – We know you love our Loopy Cake Sets, because we have a hard time keeping them in stock! We took the summer off from winding Loopy Cake Sets in order to focus on Loopy’s Paintbox Sets (available just for our anniversary, while supplies last). These sets come with 9 mini-balls of yarn. Each ball is approx. 50 yards (1/4 of a skein from our Loopy Solid Series yarn), so they are smaller than the balls you get in Loopy Cakes.
We have two different patterns that were designed with these sets in mind, and we’ll email you a copy of both patterns with purchase. The sets come in Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer colors. Shown below: Loopy’s Paintbox Scarf out of 1 1/2 sets of Autumn (shown as scarf, or kitchener the short ends to make an infinity cowl as shown in the last photo). You can also make the Paintbox Scarf/Cowl out of one set – I was just needing to hit the 600 yard mark for my July Camp project, so made it wider! And our SoundWave scarf by Debbie O’Neill, shown below in Winter and Summer colors. Each SoundWave scarf uses one set of Loopy’s Paintbox.
2. Loopy Pattern by Susan B. Anderson – Susan is the best toy-designer we know, and we’ve been working with her for a long time to design a special Loopy toy, just for you! We think it’s her cutest design ever (although we may be a little biased) and we’re excited to share it with you. We have the patterns available for sale now, and we will have kits available soon. The pattern takes one skein each of red and tan and 2 skeins of white in our Loopy Solids Series. We have been waiting on an order of white for oh-so-long, but expect it within the next couple of weeks. Please email us (support@theloopyewe.com) if you’d like us to save you a set of these three skeins to make Loopy. ($48 for just the yarn, or $53 for yarn plus pattern. The pattern is also available on its own.) We are all planning our own little Loopy knitting for the fall. We hope you have fun with him, too!
Loopy-versary Contest: We’re giving away NINE $25 Loopy Ewe Gift Certificates to celebrate our NINE years of being Loopy. (Well, some of us have been loopy a little longer than that, but we don’t count that part.) Leave a comment below and tell us what is the first project you remember knitting, crocheting, quilting or sewing, and we’ll draw the winners next week. The first thing I remember knitting was an ugly yellow sweater when I was in grade school or junior high. I just knit on the front and the back – I don’t remember sleeves, although I think it was supposed to have them ….
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I first started knitting when I started college. The first thing I knitted was a bright pink and purple scarf. That is when I fell in love with the Art of Knitting! I loved the idea of taking a ball of yarn and turning it into something you could wear.
The first thing I remember knitting is a potholder, when I was five. My German grandmother, who taught me how to knit and crochet (which I never liked as much), thought it was a good project for a beginner, since it wasn’t too big. She wanted me to concentrate on my tension—I learned to knit Continental style—and keeping my stitches even, not how long it would take it to finish. The potholder was made of dark green wool left over from an afghan my grandmother crocheted.
I’ve been knitting for more than 50 years, so her method succeeded admirably. : )
My first project was a purple and white striped K-State scarf for my 6 foot+ boyfriend. That was 40+ years ago and I’m sure it was made of acrylic.
My mother taught be how to knit and purl after I purchased some blue and green yarn to knit a stripped sweater from an expensive yarn shop in NYC.
Over the years I’ve been teaching myself from books, etc.
Would you believe, the expensive yarn shop had me cut and join for each color change ?
Over the years I’ve come to love knitting and enjoy the girls at my LYS in southern Florida. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
First thing I knitted was an acrylic charity lap blanket. It had a big hole in it after I finished and looked so bad I chucked it!
Gosh — the first think I remember knitting? I had to take a semester off from college, for health reasons. While I was recovering, my Mom bought my a pattern for a vest (possible by Penny Straker? or some name like that), a basic worsted wool, and showed me the basics – knit, purl, cast-on. The rest is history.
Happy Anniversary!
My first knitting project was when I was four years old. It was supposed to be a scarf but I quit much too soon and it became a blanket for a little doll instead.
The first thing I remember knitting was a baby hat during a learn to knit class. Knitting in the round and finishing with DPNs for the first project. The decreases are wonky and don’t line up, but it was the first FO.
My first crochet project, at age 7, was granny square blankets for my teddy bears. First knitting project was in Grad School and was a cabled head band/ear warmer. Learned to knit do I could do cables!
My first finished knitting project was a 8″x 5 foot seed stitch scarf in 2002. To this day, I don’t know where I found the patience to finish it!
I knit a red mohair cabled sweater when I was in high school. Had to have my moms help but since she learned to knit in high school by knitting argyle socks we thought it wasn’t a big deal. Never knit another thing till 1998 and taught myself to knit socks.
I think mine was a pink sweater. Being new to knitting I actually knit it ktbl. I couldn’t understand why it was so hard to rip back until a couple of years later when I took a class. I don’t think I ever finished it.
Happy anniversary!
The first thing I remember knitting was supposed to be a scarf, but ended up becoming a giant swatch… My first completed and wearable project was a cute pair of baby booties.
My first project was a really chunky scarf. Turned out fine, but later I realized that all my stitches were twisted. I was just proud that it didn’t have any holes. 🙂
The first thing I remember knitting is a sweater for my doll. I cannot describe it, but a do remember knitting squares that mt Mom put together to make an afghan for my doll crib. I did several squares with designs in them, including a cable. I was about 6 or 7 and had been knitting since I was 4.
My first project wasn’t actually anything specific. I was in a play in high school and my character was supposed to be knitting. So the director cast on and started and I just kept doing the knit stitch over and over. I liked it so much I decided to really learn to knit!
I learned to knit almost fourteen years ago because was sister was pregnant with my first niece. I wanted to make something special. I signed up for an adult Ed class at the local community college. I bought yarn and needles to make a baby blanket. I chose a dark blue colorway. I knit and knit. My niece was born and I had 2-3 inches complete. Finally when she was seven I gave her a dark blue scarf that had originally been intended to be a blanket.
My first ever project was a little baby sweater made up of garter stitch rectangles. Once I learned about shaping and realized that you could make lots of things that weren’t rectangles, a whole new world opened up to me! Happy anniversary!
Granny square doll blanket when I was 7
My first project was a ribbed scarf. It took me over six months to finish and only ended being 4 feet long. After that, I was hooked.
My first knitting was cotton leprosy bandages on teeny tiny needles and very thin cotton……so long they were and Mom and I knit together.
Love Loopy Ewe. Your web site is great and I look forward to receiving your e-mail every week. I recently bought a bungalow 360 bag from you and have received so many compliments on the bag. I’m carry it as a hand bag. Love the prints. Happy Birthday Loopy. Here’s to many more Happy Years.
The very first thing I remember knitting was a garter stitch scarf when I was about 5 years old. My mom was a knitter and taught me how.
My first knitted item was a grey wool scarf when I was 5 years old. It was about 3 feet long and 6 inches wide, with some irregularity.
My first quilt was a sampler quilt from an old Eleanor Burns book. The local fabric shop ran the class and I learned so much. I was 30 years old at the time.
The first project I remember knitting was some slippers. I had been crocheting for a while, but I saw a pattern for knitted slippers that I thought I had to have. No one in my family was a knitter, so I had to teach myself with the help of a little pamphlet I found. They turned out o.k. although I discovered much later that I was twisting the purl stitches. However, my mom wore them and loved them until she wore holes in them.
My 1st knitting project is a Brynhild cowl by Karen Dawn Designs. I started it last April and finished it in July. We meet with a bunch of artisans every Monday, so I had good incentive not to give up, and all the support a person could wish for when I hit a snag. I’m now well versed in k, p yo, k2tog & ssk!
The first thing I remember knitting was slippers out variegated green and white Red Heart yarn. It was a 4-H project when I was in grade school. I kept them until about 5 years ago.
The first thing I remember knitting was a scarf. The edges were as wavy as wet cardboard, and it was long enough to be a volleyball net…but I thought it was great.
My grandmother taught me to knit a scarf. 🙂
I knit a sweater. It was an easy guy sweater. I finished it and still have it. My poodles use it for a bed. It was knit after college.
Thanks for everything LoopyEwe! We love you!
My first garment was back in my high school days. My mother sent it to me s couple of years ago! It is a vest made of acrylic yarn. I have a front and back but never sewed it together. It’s out if an old magazine from the 70s. It’s yellow with a green band at the bottom and a strip of rose. How 70s!
Thanks again for everything and we love you!
My first project I remember knitting is a square for a warm up America afghan.
I was a college exchange student in southern Russian when I first began to knit. One of the Russian girls down the hall knew no English but patiently led me through the steps of casting on, knitting and purling. She lent me needles and yarn, having me practice a ribbed edge. When I returned home a few weeks later, one of the first things I picked up was an instruction book, some knitting needles and some brown yarn for a basic pullover I actually managed to finish. It wasn’t for a number of years later that I realized that there is also an American method to knit; I’m still trying to decide which I prefer.
I remember crocheting mittens years ago in middle school, but have only been knitting for about 7 years and of course it was a scarf.
The first project I ever knit was a scarf for my niece!
My first knitting project was a really, really, really long scarf for my soon-to-be husband. I didn’t understand that running out of yarn mid-row was a bad thing. 🙂
I was in the 6th grade in 1972, I crocheted one of those popular long vest and knitted myself a sock to fit my walking cast and keep my toes warm.
When I was a child, I made crochet jackets for my two poodles- free form, without a pattern. I didn’t learn to knit until I was an adult, and I started with a garter stitch scarf.
A navy acrylic scarf – full of dropped stitches.
My first ever crochet project was a tiny purse for my doll when I was eight years old. It was pink and had a long strap. It hung from the rear view mirror of my Dad’s car until the car was sold and the purse went with it. I have crocheted and knitted hundreds, no probably thousands, of things since that first little project, but it remains the one that springs to mind first.
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My first knit project was a garter stitch scarf with acrylic yarn. It felt like it took forever!
My first crochet project was an afghan for my Mom — it took me most of college to finish it, but she still has it in her living room almost 15 years later.
My first knitting project was a ribbed hat, knit flat and seamed. It was a gift for my brother-in-law.
My first knitting project was a washcloth. I used my great grandma’s pattern and it (sort of) turned out to be a square shape. Sort of.
My first project was a scarf and hat set !
In 2003 I took a 3-lesson how to knit class. I remembered enough of what my mother tried to teach me as a child that I picked it up rather easily. My first project was a garter stitch scarf where I carried a thin sparkly yarn with a solid color. It came out rather well and I still have it and occasionally wear it. I wish I could say the same about my second sweater, done in cotton, that stretched unbelievably after a lot of work!
My first knit project was a basket weave dish cloth. I still have it. It was made of 100% cotton yarn in a basic beige color.
My first project was a sweater I’d picked out for my mom to knit for me. When she’d put it down, I’d pick it up and continue on, after she told me what to do. After doing this several times, she told me I was ready to read the pattern and figure it out for myself. That was around 1976, the pattern came from Woman’s Day magazine, or something like that, and we used Red Heart yarn, because that’s what we had available. I still have that sweater…it’s pretty grundgy & worn now…and all the memories of mom teaching me as we made it.
It was 45 years ago. My grandma taught me! It must have been a scarf although I can barely remember what I made last week!
My very first knitting project was mittens worked flat! Crochet? Those doilies on teeny tiny hooks! Happy anniversary!