the birds are back
we were able to get our hands on a bit more of Liberty’s Ornithology print . . . we have the blue variety in stock again and some of their earthy brown cousins decided to tag along as well!
let it snow
sweet and sophie
sophie is a ladylike peter pan collar necklace, luxuriously knit with our worsted weight cashmere. tie one on to channel your inner twiggy or is it alexa chung these days? sophie is knit using just 7g of cashmere — great for using up leftover yarn and as a very last minute knitted gift.
sophie is free with the purchase of 1 skein of qualità cashmere. just write “sophie” in the comments box and we’ll send you a hardcopy of the pattern. there’s no need to add the pattern into your cart to receive the offer.
berry goodness
goodness (n. & int.)
- n. 1. virtue; excellence, esp. moral. 2. kindness, generosity (had the goodness to wait). 3. what is good or beneficial in a thing (vegetables with all the goodness boiled out).
- int. (as a substitution for ‘God’) expressing surprise, anger, etc. (goodness me!; goodness knows; for goodness’ sake!). [OE godnes (as GOOD, -NESS)]
(excerpted from the Oxford English Dictionary)
ain’t nothing but houndstooth
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
cryin’ all the time.
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
cryin’ all the time.
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit
and you ain’t no friend of mine.– Written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller; lyrics from Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog
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holland on its side
tutorial: short rows
kinda looks like a dorito, no?
dear STELLA ella ella ay ay ay
dear STELLA, a NYC based fabric design company with a flair for crisp, fresh & modern concepts, launched at the October 2011 international quilt market. their booth, filled with chevrons, ikats, and dainty paris-themed prints, pretty much stopped us in our tracks.
and of course, we were even more excited when the bolts we ordered made their way to our door step. dear STELLA fabrics can be found in our shop here.
how can you go wrong with Stella . . . a girl “who believes brunch makes Sunday the best day of the week, . . . is never too full for desert. And she always holds the door.”
beige pearl, white pearl
our house brand real pearl yarn is now available in two new colours: white pearl & beige pearl!
plus . . . tahitian black pearl, agoya grey pearl and pink pearl back in stock . . . do you purl with real pearl?
blimunda
People thought that she must be mad, but if she lingered there for any time they found her so rational in everything else she said and did that they began to doubt their initial impression that she was unsound of mind. She soon became known from one province to the next, so that her reputation often preceded her and they called her the Flying Woman on account of the strange tale she told . . . She did find him . . . Then Blimunda said, Come. The will of Baltasar Sete-Sóis broke free from his body, but did not ascend to the stars, for it belonged to the earth and to Blimunda.
— José Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda