Fabdesigns, has been in business since 1988. Originally it was known as Stoll Patterns and Designs, catering to the design and engineering of flat knit fabrics and fully fashioned garments on Stoll brand knitting machinery around the world.

We created where others said it couldn't be done, or couldn't be botherd to try the challenging. We thrive on conquering the difficult opportunities. We believed, as we do today, in pushing creative boundaries to fulfill a client’s business goals and over satisfying the end consumer’s needs, to get to that in-store emotional connection where that ‘need’ becomes a ‘want’.  ‘Wants’ in our experience, drive sales and repeat business.  In short, we believe in the details. Blending design aesthetics with cutting edge technology, performance yarns, and creating hybrids of Euro-American inspired sophistication combined with state of the art knitting techniques and premium quality materials is what we have always done.

Loomdoodles.com, as an expression of fiber artistry, actually started as the brain child of our two little girls, Sarah, and Jennifer, who frequently played with the beads, buttons, and fabric scraps in our apparel design studio.

The girls often amused themselves dressing the mannequins and sketching fantasy glamour designs while playing in our design room on the weekends. One afternoon the girls explored the computer aided design system, which we use to program our designs into our knitting looms. They thought that it would be really fun if they could draw their own pictures and we could then use our yarns to transform their doodles into a special blanket for each of their beds.

Since one of our machines was being repaired and needed to be tested anyway, we programmed their designs into the machine for the test. The girls were thrilled when we knit their names and birthdays into the blankets too. Loomdoodles was a way to showcase their ideas for fabrics and sell a few blankets. We even created a mail order line of special photo blankets from clients pictures for special keepsakes.