The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…