The store is OPEN!!

Yaaayyy!!

You are all invited to my new store - we're located in Matthews, NC. The address is 167 S. Trade Street, Unit I, Matthews, NC. Store hours are 10am - 7pm, Monday - Saturday and 1pm - 6pm every third Sunday.

At my grand opening on Saturday, one of my customers asked me to make her a large beret out of the yarn she purchased.
The yarn? Darn Good Yarn's thick 3-ply silk yarn. The color she chose was Unicorn Kisses. The color is muted while hanging, however as I was creating the hat, the colors became more vibrant! It's beautiful!

I loosely followed the Beret with a simple cable stitch pattern from Cat's Rockin' Crochet (who has great patterns, by the way). If you decide to make this hat, you'll see where the differences are. 

Let me know if you have any questions, and check out my new website, www.lesliesloops.com! 

I just quit my job (and made a shawl)!

After almost 5 years of working for Habitat Charlotte - a great ministry - I decided I needed to move on and mainly focus on my future as an entrepreneur.

I am SO excited!!!

My store doesn't open until April 19th, so in my spare time, I get to crochet! This shawl is the Zinnia Flower Shawl (click for pattern) from the Fiber Flux Blog. I LOVE how it looks!
I made two small changes - I used worsted weight yarn from Darn Good Yarn, which is starting to be my go-to yarn. Their reclaimed silk cloud yarn and their banana fiber yarn is so great to work with.

Here are the pictures:

(adorable pants! Lol!)

All links are provided above.

I hope you like it!