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Psst! All our new products, Painter Palettes, Ombré, Neutrals, and an updated pattern list including Longbeach and Cove will launch tomorrow! Happy shopping :) Exciting news if you live in Toronto! Fluevog, makers of the coolest shoes on the planet, are teaming up with The Blue Brick to host a knit night in their fabulous…
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Peggy’s Cove is a gorgeous little spot in Nova Scotia, Canada. It’s a tiny town, with a lovely lighthouse, and a terrain that looks like you’re on the moon. The town itself is equally lovely, population 640 (in 2011). The lighthouse itself dates back to 1868, but there has been a community on this spot since…
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Changes are coming to The Blue Brick! With mom being sick lately, I realized there was a need to streamline our processes, offer more of the most popular stuff and maybe put less energy into the things that are less popular, or that we don’t feel matches our business goals. I have some new things…
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I’ve really been on a flower kick lately, springtime will do that to you :) Even though it’s been on the website for a few days now, I wanted to highlight one of my new colourways ‘Hyacinth’. Hyacinths are probably my favourite flower (and tiger lilies, and dahlias, and …) . I love the scent…
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These past few weeks have been a roller coaster ride, and I’ve been very unresponsive to customers as a result, for which I apologize. My mother was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm that, thankfully, had not ruptured. This is a big deal because aneurysms, occasionally fatal ones, seem to run in our family (I will…
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This past weekend, with barely 6 inches to spare, I bound off my Age of Brass and Steam kerchief (free on Ravelry, click here for pattern) using my Ocean Fortress Ombré yarn. To say I am delighted is an understatement. The pattern used up exactly one skein of The Blue Brick Escarpment DK. I overshot…
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Visit our online store to see all the new goodies we’ve got in stock, including the April club, Ocean Fortress, Jade, Carnelian and Chrysocolla. There are a few things that you might find a little different! We are no longer offering Manitoulin Merino. This saddens me, and might not be permanent, but it was on…
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PSST – Longbeach, the April club colour, comes out tomorrow, along with these beauties in our online store! Here’s something totally different from Jade :) A rich, deep red, inspired by an actual sample of Carnelian stone. Going along with my theme of looking up stone meanings: Carnelian (also sometimes referred to as cornelian) is…
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