(lavender fields in uchaux) we’re off to basque country and provence for the next few days! hopefully we’ll come back with our arms laden with wonderful new things. until then, any orders for physical goods will ship on monday, august 29th. your credit card will not be charged until the item is shipped. downloadable patterns are of course available 24/7, 365 days a year. happy summer!
like a lot of new yorkers these days, we’re a bit giddy about Ladurée setting up shop at 845 madison avenue. the opening date is purportedly august 22nd, which is just a few days around the corner! while on one of our scouting trips, we spotted some delicious parisian pastry inspired fabrics that look remarkably like ladurée’s famous pastry counters. the fabric is part of yuwa’s live life collection and sells out almost immediately in japan. we were able to track down a bit and…
a reader wrote in a while back asking for clarification on a stitch sequence used in the elise pattern. it goes something like this “. . . purl 1 through the back loop, drop the next stitch, yarn back, purl 1 through the back loop. . .” there are two parts to this stitch pattern that make it a bit less standard. we’re going to break it down here to explain how the stitch sequence is done: