Yarn Loop, your friendly Texas yarn shop, provides knitting and crocheting kits for ever skill level as well as notions and accessories for the craft. The shop offers pattern kits to make garments, home goods, and other smaller projects like accessories & toys. Men, Women, Children, Infants and even the house pet have not been overlooked! Yarn Loop strives to provide the best needles, hooks, and notions and is constantly researching and testing the newest, greatest tools, too.
The shop carefully reviews and compiles the best patterns available to create the Yarn Loop Kit. This kit is designed to simplify your shopping experience by combining the pattern with the selected yarn and certain needed accessories. Yarn Loop strives to make the shopping experience as streamlined as possible and keeps kits in stock for the patterns available.
Please rest assured that the recommended yarns are excellent choices. Yarn Loop takes special care to notate any differences in fiber or thickness and the corresponding implications for the alternates. Colors are carefully selected to be complimentary and "go together". Climate considerations are also notated so that a Floridian is not roasting in llama or a New Yorker freezing in linen.
While many patterns specify exact yarns, it is common for the designer recommended yarn to be discontinued. At Yarn Loop, we believe that a great pattern should not die with the yarn. We strive to keep the most popular and well-loved patterns available in kits.
Each kit includes a PDF copy of the pattern as well as a printed, extra thick, custom bound pattern copy that can be used over and over again.
Yarn Loop takes great pride in the virtual store, and we think it shows, especially in our photographs! Our resident photographer as spent many, many hours photographing all of our yarn under strict lighting controls to capture each dye lot in its true nature. When a new dye lot arrives, it is always photographed, too!
Yarn Loop also takes photographs of color sets so that our customers can see how the colors play off of each other. Color theory is something that can be rather difficult, so we take extra time to guarantee that your finished item is exactly as envisioned.
A special tip: When making color selections, please turn off any blue light filters or amber filters as these greatly effect the color on your monitor, tablet or screen.
The Yarn Loop provides the following support services for our customers.
We really love helping people! If you aren't sure what pattern or yarn to choose, please feel free to shoot over an email so that we can walk you through your purchase. We also schedule appointments in store or over the phone to help you find your dream project.
We have closed our location at the southern edge of McCamey, Texas, but we are still proud of our heritage and want to share it! The McCamey storefront was originally built as a Christian church in the 1990's. A large cross is embedded in the brickwork on the face of the building.
In McCamey, we also had a resident Roadrunner who tapped on our front door around noon most days. While he was just playing with his reflection, we like to think that he really wanted to come into the shop.
Yarn Loop is now located in the Greater Austin Area of Texas. We plan to have our main shop open in the NW Austin / Lakeway, Texas area in 2024! We are in a temporary location at the moment, but we are always available for viewings and group meetings. Please see our Contact Us Page for more information.
I am a native Texan with a lifelong interest in using my abilities to design and create beautiful things. My mother has a PhD in Family & Consumer Science (also known as Home Economics) and her influence started my interest in sewing and knitting as early as the age of 6. As a child, I would design & sew Barbie doll dresses, make cross stitch patterns, and complete finger knitted bracelets.
My grandmother and my mother-in-law taught me the art of crochet more than 20 years ago. I greatly enjoy making crocheted plush animals for children. My son always requests one "snuggly" for his personal collection, so I always make at least two of every animal. I also like to crochet baby blankets, hats and cowls from some of the most beautiful patterns available.
My mother taught me to knit in 2014, and I quickly progressed to advanced knitting within 10 months, completing slipped stitch and fair-isle sweaters with ease. My background in sewing and design helps me modify patterns for the perfect fit of any garment. I find the technical aspect of knitting and crocheting extremely rewarding and love the soothing repetitiveness of these crafts.
Last but not least, I found a wonderful knitting group to help guide my hands and focus into fiber. The women of my group are very responsive and encouraging and have helped me learn so much about the craft and the beautiful yarns available. It is wonderful to meet up with a group that can help decipher a pattern or help you learn a stitch, and I highly recommend that you join me, or try to find a knitting/crochet group in your area.
All images copyrighted by Yarn Loop. Image of Rachel wearing the Yuki Jacket from Knit.Wear Magazine which is made on Rios by Malabrigo. Photograph taken at the back of the property in McCamey, TX which is full of yucca, cacti & mesquite.