If you’ve followed us for a long time, you know that Kim is a pretty special person to us. She owns a Highland cattle farm out in Niagara on the Lake. The cows are her pets, along (at that time) with the pig (Wilbur), the goat (Diesel), two miniature horses, a dog, a cat, and one big horse (Pete).

Pete was fired from his job as a carriage horse, for his propensity to cross fields to eat other people’s landscaping, and to take the carriage with him. Pete is my hero.

Many colours have come from the colourful, eternally youthful, and certifiably insane person that is my friend Kim. She gave me the OG namesake that led to the Feather colourway. She collected the wild turkey feathers that became Quill. Even Rooster, Kim’s Barn’s direct descendant, comes from her.

My first skeins of Kim’s Barn marked a love of turquoise and golden brown that would thread its way through so many of my later creations. Including (but not limited to) Rooster, Grotto, Mermaid Purse and Unicorn Fish. It got to a point where I would proudly introduce a new colour to Tito and he would stare at it blankly and pronounce “Wow. It looks just like all your other shit.”. Love that guy.

When I first began dyeing, long before I had invented my gradient methods, that photo of Kim’s Barn informed one of my very first colourways;

This baby, and a few other old school colourways, will hit the shop tomorrow morning :) So if you’ve been feeling nostalgic, here you go!