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Check out this lovely thing knitted by Stephanie B – it’s massive. Using one skein of Niagara MCN Feather, and one skeins of Niagara MCN Seafoam, this Inara Wrap by Ambah O’Brien is to die for! I’ve decided to make my own; I’m thinking Longbeach and Peggy’s Cove, or Seafoam and Heron – what do you think?…
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My darling hubby, Tito, is the other half of The Blue Brick, and he loves a good slouch hat, so this one is for him :) Who doesn’t love a good slouch hat? Sure, it’s 30 million degrees in Toronto right now, but I’m already thinking of comfy autumn staples. This hat is an easy,…
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Be prepared for an egregious number of exclamation points, because that’s just how excited I am. I’ve been working on this super secret project behind the scenes with my dear friend Michelle of Simply Elemental, a talented artist who specializes in all-natural bath and body products. Michelle and I have teamed up to develop something…
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Should have posted yesterday! Congratulations to this weeks winners, chosen by random number generator :) Ravellers Larisa3, Intothecurve and KTurner are all getting 20% coupon codes for our online store!
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Our store reopens August 1st, and there have been changes! Sitting down? Got a drink? Here we go! We are bringing back worsted. Because Winter Is Coming. Tobermory worsted, our hard-wearing, tough-love, 100% superwash merino base is going to be back on the list of bases you can choose from. We are awaiting our first worsted shipments,…
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Hot weather isn’t keeping our KAL down! For round one of prizes, by random number generator, Ravellers Huntersma, Svance, Michellephd and Surferjenny will all receive a free pattern of their choice from The Blue Brick. Keep them coming knitters! Read all about the prize plan here, next Monday it’s 20% off coupons for The Blue…
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These days we are working away to sell our home, buy a home, and somehow produce enough inventory for Twist ;) So of course I decided to throw a wrench into the works by developing an entirely new colour. My process usually begins one of two ways. Mostly it starts because I take a photo…
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Kim’s Barn is the colour of the month, isn’t it? There was my Lelly, my Shireen socks, and this lovely Brickless from the ladies at Yarns Untangled: I can’t get enough of this bright, fun colour though, so today I wanted to show off my vacation FO – Lelly, by Martina Behm. I love her…
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The Blue Brick KAL officially starts today! I know there was some confusion about start times because of the Shipping Episode, but hopefully we’re all back on the same page :) Because I know some folks have already started, we’re going to change the way prizes work to keep it fair, so here goes! There…
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This crazy summer is flying past us – we’ve closed our store for July just to give us a bit of breathing room while we increase production to create inventory for our FIRST Fiber Festival! We’ll be at Festival Twist next month in Saint-André-Avellin, Quebec. I have heard that this is one of the biggest…
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