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101 things you can do with Soak | Removing dirt and oil off wildlife
Author: Ngoc
Most of us have heard stories about oil spills and their effects on wild life. One of our customers, Laura Westlake is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and she sent us her Soak story.
“I can’t tell you how much I love your product. As a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, I use your “Soak” to bath my [...]
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It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 7: Once Upon a Tart
Author: Jacqueline
Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!
New York. Bright lights, big city.
Last week we were [...]
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101 things you can do with Soak |004 Wash Stinky Hockey Gear
Author: Ngoc
I’m sure many of you are coming down from your Olympic high. I’m not normally a huge sports fan but for the past 3 weeks, you wouldn’t know it. I was filled with Canadian pride while cheering hard for the home team. I’m still pumped about our gold medal wins in both women’s and men’s hockey so [...]
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It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 6: Stitch N’ Pitch
Author: Ngoc
Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!
What can be better then supporting the home team [...]
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Get your paws on Unleash.
One of our favorite parts of TNNA is seeing all the familiar faces, catching up with old friends, and making new ones.
This year we had wonderful booth neighbours. Louet NA on one side, and Chameleon Colorworks on the other. This is how we met Nancy, the owner of Chameleon Colorworks. Nancy instantly fell in love with our newest scent, [...]
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101 things you can do with Soak |003 Prewash fabrics
Author: Ngoc
Prewashing helps to avoid unexpected color bleeding, or shrinkage.
We would highly recommend prewashing your fabrics if they are very deep or vibrant in color. You wouldn’t want those dyes to transfer on to the surrounding fabric.
Another issue is shrinkage. Different fabrics will shrink differently. This is an issue when using many different types of [...]
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It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 5: Knit. Crochet. Create.
Author: Jacqueline
Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!
On our many trips to New York City we [...]
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101 things you can do with Soak |002 block felt and finish
Author: Ngoc
Soak was first launched in the knitting industry as a way to care for your hand knit pieces. Knitters quickly realized that Soak was also great for blocking, felting and finishing their knit and crochet projects.
Blocking is a term that most knitters have heard of, and know that they should do. However, many are [...]
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It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 4: Bag as friend. Bag as family.
Author: Jacqueline
Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!
Meet Carrie and Phil. The newest members of the [...]
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101 things you can do with Soak |001 Hand-wash lingerie
Author: Jacqueline
Soak, while designed for all fine fibers, is the perfect (and generally preferred) solution for hand-washing lingerie.
Ask lingerie expert Jennifer Klein, from Secrets from your Sister, who recently answered the age old question- how to hand wash bras, on sweetspot.ca.
On February 18th we head off to NYC to our semi-annual tradeshow, CurveNY. There, we [...]
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