Fibernymph, Into the Whirled, Beads, Buttons and More!

miyuki-beadsHappy Monday to you! I’ve been playing with beads all day. (Ok, not playing. Working. It’s all work ….) We have some beautiful new colors of beads that went up tonight, in both the 6/0 and 8/0 sizes. Adding beads to projects just seems a little magical to me. Not much work to it, but it adds so much to the project. I’ll talk more about beads in a future post. For now, I know you popped over here to see What’s New in the Monday Update.

Miyuki Beads from Caravan – Miyuki Japanese Seed Beads are renowned for being some of the best on the market. They are extremely uniform and consistent in both size and color, and they also have slightly larger holes than Czech beads, making them easier to use. We re-stocked the colors we were low on and added in 8 more colors of the 8/0 beads (typically used on laceweight yarn) and 20 more colors of the 6/0 beads (typically used on fingering weight yarn).

into-the-whirled-roving-walla-wallaInto the Whirled – We have our first batch of Roving from Into the Whirled, and it’s just as gorgeous as the yarn colors were! (But this time you get to spin it the way you’d like the colors to work together.) This Polwarth Combed Top takes the dye beautifully and the slight coarseness of the fiber makes it easy to spin. (Shown here in Walla Walla.)

Buttons – Lots more buttons and re-stocks from JHB and Buttons, Etc. You’ll find silver, gold, wooden, pewter, and coconut in all colors and sizes.

fibernymph-bounce-primordial-seaFibernymph Dye Works – Hand-dyed by Lisa in her Bounce yarn base, which is 80% Superwash Merino and 20% Nylon (perfect for socks, although these colors are also beautiful as shawls and scarves, too.) Shown here in Primordial Sea.

The Loopy Ewe Totes – more of our clear plastic totes in the Accessories size (for your scissors, stitchmarkers, point protectors, tape measures and darning needles), the Project Keeper size (big enough for yarn plus pattern – a great way to store future projects so you can remember what pattern you had in mind when you bought that yarn), and Red Project Totes (great for one-skein projects like socks, mitts, hats and small shawls).

Have fun checking out the new things, and we’ll be on the webcam tomorrow, packing your orders up!

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Loving the Loopy Elves!

warmfuzziesIt has been a crazy busy week around here. Do you know who deserves some extra kudos at The Loopy Ewe? Those awesome Loopy Elves. I’m always so impressed with how much they put into their work around here. On weeks like this when we’re scrambling each day to get all of the orders out before the mailman comes, they stay late without even blinking. And on days when we have more orders to get out than the scheduled Elves for that day can handle, other Elves come in on their days off to help. They’re really the best and I’m so glad to have them here.

I know you’re glad to have them here, too! When you add Testimonials to our website and send us sweet emails, we print those out and pin them on the bulletin board in our kitchen break room, so that everyone can share in the warm fuzzies. (I took a photo of the batch from this past week.) You all sure know how to make our day. Come to think of it, you deserve some extra kudos, too!

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