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The One Sweater
With a morning temperature of 44 degrees today, it's definitely feeling like sweaterweather! So perfect timing for this blog . . . In the shop we have samples of three sizes of the One Sweater from The Fibre Co. through early October. This classic gender-neutral pattern comes in a range of 13 sizes from child's age 1-2 to adult 54-56". The Fibre Co.'s founder, Daphne Marinopoulos, said that the goal for this sweater was to create a go-to sweater for everybody. It's an approachable straightforward design with top-down, raglan shaping, and some short rows for fit at the back. A...
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Love Note Inspiration
This pattern was released in May and quickly climbed up the knitter social media charts. We asked our friend Kathy to make us a shop sample and it's now gracing the prom dress by our front door. We've got oodles of options to make this one for yourself and are here to tell you all about them. But first, don't think this layer is only for when you want to be super fancy! We'd prefer that you think of it as a fairly quick top down sweater on size 10 needles that can be dressed up or down, and as...
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Sweet Words
"It is a kind of love, is it not? How the wool hugs the needles"
I just read a little essay by Michelle Edwards, whose writing is charming and sweet. Wool hugging the needles is such a nice picture that we thought it nice to share it here so we can all revisit it from time to time.
She was inspired by a poem: The Patience of Ordinary Things
We wish you many hugs as you work your stitches one by one, and may your ordinary stitches turn into extraordinary hats, blankets, pillows, sweaters, and everything in between.
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...and Proud Of It
Every time we see our logo formatted onto something new we positively beam with pride. And then we count our blessings for the talented Jim Heins (Heins Creative) who took our vision and created the mark (yep, he's married to Linda but Sue thinks his professional and artistic eye plus professional EXPERIENCE was top-notch when logo development was all happening). And then we ooooo and ahhhh about the craftspeople who recreate it. The most recent rendition is this beautiful sign that Katy of Katrinkles made for us. She and her fine team have laser cut our logo on tiny...
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