#loops & threads

[hibernationfibres]

Totally forgot to bring any hats/gloves with me to ONTARIO, so one of the first things I did was walk to Michael's (!!) and buy some yarn for mitts. The knitted ones turned out a little huge because I can't navigate standardised yarn sizes (what is a 3??) but they're cute and cosy all the same!

Yarn: Loops & Threads Impeccable yarn in 'Hot Sunshine Speckle" - I LOVE this sunny colour with its flecks and spots.

The extra brown on the crochet mitts was stolen from my lovely friend's stash because I ran out

Pattern:

Knitted mitts (right) are 'Eureka Valley Mitts' by Amy Klint on ravelry.

The crocheted ones (left) are the same simple granny square mitts I've made a few times before - two granny squares per mitt, with some double crochets at the top, bottom, and thumb. So easy and cute :D

[pixl-pawz]

:c extremely disappointed to learn that Michaels crafts did in fact get the rights to sell Big Twist Posh at their stores over Herrschners who basically only got rights to sell Big Twist Value.

as i feared, Michaels has fully rebranded the Big Twist yarn into their 'Loops & Threads' yarn AND i don't even think they're using the original Big Twist color ways.

their 'Vanilla' color is more white than a nice soft brownish like the Big Twist 'Vanilla Bean' (and this isn't their 'White' color, they have a pure 'White' color as well so why NOT make the 'Vanilla' color more lightly brown toned like 'Vanilla Bean'?)

their 'Bright Blue' is more cyan-y than Big Twist's 'Blueberry Smoothie' (tho, both colors are nice, if only they could sell them BOTH bc they're both good colors)

their 'Mint' is WAY more green than Big Twist's 'Mint Chip' (again both colors are nice if they weren't fully replacing Big Twist's nice color ways)

their 'Lemon' is NOTHING like Big Twist's buttery 'Lemon Meringue' color which AGAIN both are nice colors but likely only THEIRS will exist. but this genuinely just looks like they dyed chenille yarn their value yarn's yellow color dye rather than stick with Posh's color way line.

the 'Blush', 'Lilac' and 'Black' all look pretty close/similar to Big Twist's 'Rosehip', 'Ube Milk Tea' and 'Black Sesame Ice Cream'. so w/e on those ones but it's like, you bought the line to SELL that line, why aren't you selling what it once was and are just basically selling it under your own brand AND changing the way it originally looked?

AND ALSO? I WOULD'VE PREFERRED IT KEPT SELLING UNDER THE BIG TWIST BRAND BC THE NAMES WERE SO MUCH CUTER AND ENTICING WHEN THEY WERE BIG TWIST? I MEAN. UBE MILK TEA? RASPBERRY SORBET? CHOCOLATE FUDGE? I LITERALLY WANTED TO EAT THE YARN COS IT SOUNDS SO YUM.

they turned it into boring 'purple' 'pink' white'. you (supposedly) HAVE the rights to it, why not sell it as Big Twist?

i also wonder if it even FEELS like the original Posh line or if they GENUINELY just took their own chenille yarn they already sell (cos yes, they already sell several chenille types before they got greedy over joann's death) and dyed it with their own colors and are just claiming it was once Big Twist's Posh, to which, that would make even LESS sense to spend money on buying the rights to sell it if you.. were just using what you already had (other than to basically monopolize that line of yarn so no one else COULD sell it but like.. they ALREADY HAD CHENILLE YARN THEY DIDN'T NEED BIG TWIST'S JUST ADD SOME MORE COLOR VARIETY YOU LIKELY WOULD'VE GOTTEN MORE BUSINESS FOR THE LACK OF JOANN EXISTING REGARDLESS. cos even in their value color ways, they are SEVERELY lacking in GREENS)

(and yes, i did save archived pics of Big Twist's yarn lines i both main in and wanted to try bc i had wanted to keep images of their stuff in case no one ever picked up their brand considering it was an in-house brand to find alts close as i could to them)

super happy that herrschners is selling the value brand tho and it has STAYED Big Twist. just really wish they could've gotten Posh cos i DESPERATELY wanted to try that one. it was so soft and cute.

(i'm just a LIL bit passionate about yarn u w u )

[skygemspeaks]

Progress update on my Loops & Threads Lighthouse WIP!

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[lt-sarai]

I made a cowl

[moonbeam-mothling]

Borrowercore(?) blanket I’m knitting!!!

Lol the way I drapped it over the basket combined with the scrunched up part where I’m working from, it sorta looks like a really big hat 😂 to a borrower, it’d be like a hat for a human’s smallish doll

Mina learns to knit from Ashley, eventually Wes too and so they have their own lil knitting circle :3 Mina wants Raz to join in, but Raz really prefers to be outdoors and away from humans. I do want to write an occasion where Raz would join in, tho. For knitting needles Mina uses modified wooden toothpicks or smaller :B

[smallpotatoknitwear]

Quarantine Blanket #9: Tilt-a-Whirl Quilt

Wellllll, I didn’t quite get this blanket finished by 4/10, but at least it’s done! As much of a pain as this blanket was—mostly in regards to weaving in ends and having to block all of the squares and piecing together (AKA most aspects of the blanket)—I really enjoyed working on it, and I absolutely love how it came out! It was also great to work the entire body of the blanket in HDCs, a stitch I don’t use particularly often, and I learned the Herringbone HDC stitch for the border! I already talked about it a little in one of my WIP posts, but for this blanket, I used the Tilt-a-Whirl pattern from Yarnspirations, but changed colors for the striped squares, and added the border of solid grey squares because I was trying to use scraps for the blanket and didn’t have enough to do the whole thing. The border is 13 rows of Herringbone HDC, which was really just to add to the size of it, since it only wound up being about 4.5x5ish when it was all put together.

If I could change one thing about how I made this blanket, I would have sewn the pieces together instead of crocheting them. For one thing, crocheting them together took absolutely forever, and wound up looking bunched and messy, which is a little less than ideal. I’m pretty sure it’ll stretch and even out once it’s used, but until then, it’ll make me a little sad. If I could change a second thing, it would be how I did the corners on the border—for some reason, and I’m really not sure what it was, I did the corners by doing two stitches, chaining two, and doing two more stitches in each corner, and then repeating that in each chain two space for the entire border, meaning that each row added 16 stitches to the total count. This ended up making the corners elongated and pointy, which I actually think looks kind of cool, except for that it makes the border ripple a little. Again, stretching out with use, yada yada—it’ll be fine eventually!

Yarn used for this blanket:

Pink: Loops & Threads Impeccable in Lippy

Purple: Red Heart Super Saver Jumbo in Amethyst

Orange: Red Heart Super Saver in Flame

Yellow: Caron One Pound in Sunflower

Grey: Red Heart Super Saver in Charcoal (also used for piecing blanket together)

Yarn used for the border:

Variegated: Red Heart Super Saver Stripes in Fruity Stripe

Grey: Red Heart Super Saver in Charcoal

Yellow: Caron One Pound in Sunflower

For the border, I did:

One row of single crochet around in Fruity Stripe.

Six rows (about two skeins) of herringbone half-double crochet in Fruity Stripe.

One row of herringbone half-double crochet in Charcoal.

Three rows of herringbone half-double crochet in Fruity Stripe.

Two rows of herringbone half-double crochet in Charcoal.

One row of herringbone half-double crochet in Sunflower.

I used a US size I/5.5mm hook for the whole blanket.

[tinynightmarestrawberry]

This yarn vomit is going to become a Baby Tree of Life throw for one on the women I work with. This woman is knit worthy so she will appreciate all the time put in and use it well. Lion Brand pattern and Loops & Threads yarn