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Fibernymph, Loopy Legends, Hiya, ChiaGoo and More

The Monday Yarn Update is ready for you! Today we added in:

Fibernymph Dye Works – Lisa has done up some more of her beautiful self-striping colors for us. Did you catch last Friday’s blog post, where we talked about self-striping colors? There are a lot of cute things you can make with this yarn. It’s labor-intensive to dye, but we’ll continue to get it in as often as our dyers are able to do up batches for us. Lisa’s self-striping yarn is 80% Superwash Merino and 20% nylon, with 400 yards in the skein. Pattern ideas: Pin Striped Socks, Rayures, Caffe Macchiato, Podster Gloves, Syncopation Socks, Staccato Socks, Jeck, and you might try the Fish Lips Kiss Heel for your socks. Looks interesting. Shown below in Highlighters and Rockabilly Bride.

The Loopy Ewe Loopy Legends – a new batch of the exclusive colors that we have been dying up for our 2013 Loopy Legends! This is the last big batch of 2013. (We have one more single color coming soon – we had to get it re-dyed.) In this batch, we’re celebrating new Legends Lisa, Mary, Melissa, Teresa, Denise, Laura, Allison, Eevi, Linda, Barb, Jenny, Lisa, Cathy, Leslie and Marsha. Our Loopy Legends sent us beautiful inspiration pictures, and of course Lorna’s Laces did an amazing job of interpreting them. Pattern Ideas: Antarktis, Harvest Dew, Lacy Karius, Slip Stitch Quilted Hat for Adults, and Atwood Infinity Scarf. Shown below in Linda’s Warm Ocean Currents and Melissa’s Knitting in the Garden.

ChiaoGoo Needles – re-stocked in circulars, 47″, 40″, 32″, 24″ and 16″, interchangeable tips and cables, and 6″ DPN’s, which is a new addition for us. (Note: some of the sizes we ordered in the circulars were back-ordered. We’ll get them in as soon as possible.

HiyaHiya Needles and Accessories – re-stocked. This includes regular bamboo and steel needles in circulars and DPN’s, interchangeable cables and points, point protectors, yarn ball stitch markers, cable needles, stitch holders, and Puppy and Kitty Snips.

Knitting Accessories – re-stocked in tape measures, conductive thread, point protectors, counters, Chibi’s, and Needle Keepers to tame your socks-in-progress on DPN’s.

Wooden Sock Blockers – re-stocked in Small, Medium and X-Large sizes.

Have fun checking out the new things, and we’ll get your orders packed up with Loopy Love and shipped right out. We’re always glad to have you here!

Sheri and The Loopy Ewe Crew

Connections of All Kinds

I like having friends who knit. Knitters are fun friends to be connected to. It’s always fun to see what they’re working on, and sometimes they even let me borrow their beautiful work to show to you (and display in the shop). For example, this gorgeous shawl that my friend Sheryl made. (Sheryl’s hubby Michael is a Loopy Elf.) This is the Dandelion on the Meadow, done in Madelinetosh Prairie in the Violin color. Isn’t it pretty? I wish you could feel it. It’s almost weightless. The nice thing about making a shawl out of lace is that it’s very lightweight, but very warm (if you’re knitting with wool or silk).

And a closeup:

I’m working on a Nuvem (“working” meaning I started it last Thanksgiving and haven’t worked on it since that week. But hey, it’s in my knitting bag, ready any time I want to get back at it!). It’s another shawl that calls for lace weight yarn and is going to be very warm to wrap up in. Viajante is another new pattern done in lace that you might like.

Speaking of connections, are you connected to us in all the ways you can be connected to us? (Because we love connecting with you! And also, I’m trying to see how many times I can use connected/connections/connecting in one paragraph….)

You can find us on:

Facebook We post on there about what has gone up in the Monday Update, what I’ve blogged about, what might be happening in-store on a certain day, questions I’d like your input on, and then yesterday we posted a fun video taken around the shop – go check it out!

Pinterest I have boards on there for Project & Pattern Inspiration, Colorwork, Crochet, Yarn Bombing, Tips, Ambitious Projects and Unusual Projects. There are so many fun things to find and share on Pinterest. I’m going in and adding to the boards every couple of days and there’s always something new!

Instagram This is our newest project, so watch for that to grow in the days to come. We’ll be adding photos from around the shop, photos of incoming shipments, photos of the Elves being silly, photos of Loopy being silly, and anything else that will give you the flavor of things around here.

Ravelry The Loopy Groupie board is the best. Seriously. If you have any knitting question, you can pop it up there and have an answer almost immediately. It’s awesome. You’ll also find pattern ideas from other Groupies, product sharing, finished-project photo sharing, and Loopy Swaps going on from time to time.

Twitter We mostly use Twitter for announcing Monday Updates and Wollmeise Updates. If you don’t have Twitter, you can still get a text to your phone when we post to Twitter. Just text “follow theloopyewe” to 40404 and you’ll get our texts on Mondays and Wollmeise days.

Come connect. We like having you around!

Sheri whocan’tbelieveit’stimetogohomealready.
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