The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

Berry Vanilla Party & Rae Winner

What a fabulous, if hot and sticky/torrentially rainy day! There was everything. Jeremy, the cutest puppy ON EARTH, kittens, cupcakes, yarn, berry vanilla scented goodies, attempted theft of said puppy, lots of knitting, knitters, fibre’y goodness, prizes and even a quasi wet T-shirt contest… all…

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Inara Wrap

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…

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Free Pattern – Tito

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…

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A Berry Vanilla Party!

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…

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KAL Winners – week 2

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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KAL Prizes, Round 1!

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…

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FO – the Lelly Poncho/Cowl

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…

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Shall we KAL?

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…

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Let’s Talk About Socks, Baby

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.…

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The Blue Brick is in a store!!

Enough about Canada Post! According to the latest news all mail is safely on its way, so we’re going to move on with the assumption that all is well because honestly, that was so stressful! If you have not yet had a shipping notification, please…

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