It’s hard to miss the bright pink Socktopus banner in the sidebar, but it doesn’t really illustrate just how important Alice has been to The Inside Loop right from the beginning.

I met Alice at an IKnit pub night a while back and we hit it off straight away. In the course of a later conversation I happened to mention that Kate and I were tossing around ideas about starting a magazine - her response was instant and positive: Go for it!

She was there for us again a couple of weeks later when we started to waver and have doubts, and she is still there for us at every turn with advice and support.

Not least, she has provided us with completely To-Die-For yarns for the launch:

One skein of The Knittery Cashmere/Merino sock yarn in Orange Blossoms, one of the new Indigo Moon in Emerald…

…and one luscious skein of Dream in Colour Smooshy in Cloud Jungle.

Thank you so much Alice!