Needles on the Move

Firstly, thank you so much for all your comments on the mag. Kate and I really hoped that what we envisioned would be the kind of thing people wanted and it seems we were right for the most part. Feedback has been wonderful and inspiring and we have been trying to respond in person to as many people as we can.

We really tried to listen to potential readers and create a site that would meet the needs of people out there. We had great ideas and feedback as we were building the magazine and some of the most welcomed features (e.g. the printable pages) have been ideas from you guys out there.

We will continue to listen, and although we know we can’t please everyone all the time, we will always keep in mind that this is a magazine for you and it should reflect the needs and preferences of the public readership. So please keep in touch!

As a result of one email I received on Wednesday I headed out last night to meet up with Helda and the London Crochet Meetup group. Kate and I decided from the first that we didn’t want the mag to be exclusively for knitters and the crochet crowd has responded positively to the inclusion of their art. It was a good night, I met a lot of new people and we talked about ways that crochet’s image can (hopefully) change. Knitting still attracts flak from many sources and crocheters get at least a quadruple dose. I really hope that the Loop can help to let people know that it’s not all sparkly thread and granny squares out there (although I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the awesome granny square).

In honour of the occasion (although they certainly don’t ban knitting at LCM!) I thought I’d take some crochet along and decided to start Treenah from the mag. I chose Blue Sky Alpaca Silk and I’m loving it!

I’ve just started the trellis pattern at one end - have I ever mentioned how FAST crochet is?! I’m going to be finished this one pretty soon and I’ll leave it on display at Stash for a while until it gets shipped off for an antipodean winter birthday.

I sound like I’m on a bit of a craze here I know but I have always enjoyed crochet, I have never used icky acrylic and hardly ever skinny thread. There is definitely a place for it and it deserves a better wrap than it traditionally receives. Why not dig out a hook this weekend :-)

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P.S. Who’s going to be at Spinning Group tomorrow morning :-P

The pattern for Monika is now up.

You can download it here:

Finally another finished object. And another one! I am having a brief fling with amigurumi, thus the leftovers have become the Amigu-bear.

And to celebrate the coming of spring, and my new scarf, I had to get some easter eggs! Guaranteed by the girl in the cafe to be completely rockin’ chocolate.

Scarf stats: 2 skeins Koigu, 3.5mm hook, one flight to NYC and one arvo in the shop, pattern I’ll write up soon.

Bear stats: the golf-ball-sized leftovers and a pattern which is quickly disappearing from my head, I have a suspicion that if I try to repeat what I did I will fail miserably, but I’ll try! His scarf is the only use I have found so far for the Habu yarn I bought at Ally Pally and which turned out to be a complete b$^*er to knit with so is hidden in my stash drawer.

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12. Amigu-bears

13. Goddess pattern by stitchdiva (from Cairi)

14. Fair Isle baby cardigan (Nathalie’s doing that one - it’s gorgeous!)