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So far, I’ve stayed out of the discussion on IG about racism and inclusion in the knitting world. I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’m brown in my posts, or that my family is multi cultural. I grew up in the diverse city of Toronto, and felt that I hadn’t really experienced…
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We’ve added a new tool to our website! Watch the video below to learn more :)
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Holiday kits are ready to roll out at last! Everything on this list is scheduled to ship before or on November 30th, which is hopefully ample time for holiday deadlines. All prices are in Canadian dollars and we ship worldwide for $12 CDN. How do you find all these things? At 11am EST tomorrow they…
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A few years ago, Tito and visited Vancouver Island, rented a car and drove to Tofino. We shot there for several days; the driftwood, the kilometres of empty beaches, the massive trees, Tofino was a dream. We went during the off season, so it felt like we had this magical place to ourselves. The mist…
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This autumn we wanted to do something a little different to celebrate the coming of cooler weather. These past few weeks you might have seen some yarns with a slightly different flavour showing up on instagram; instead of having our photography inspire the yarn, we’ve brought real, natural items into the dye station with us…
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We’ve added a small, but useful function to our website that will help users coordinate different colourways, both tonal and ombre. On any product page you will now see two tiny buttons on the left. Click “Add to compare” to save the product to your personal collection. When you are ready to view all the…
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You may have noticed some watercolour’esqu teasers on our instagram – it’s not watercolour, in fact, it’s acid dye! The same dye we use on our yarns. I had quite a bit of fun, painting onto watercolour paper using dyes. Afterwards, I took the “splotches” that I liked most and shot them, then vectorized them…
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By now you’ve probably seen the buzz on instagram – our new book is finally ready to share with the world and we couldn’t be happier with the results! Country House Knits has 88 pages of lovely photography, and 14 patterns in both written and charted form. This time we released our lookbook as a…
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One of the things we learned in Hawaii is that “Aloha” doesn’t just mean “Hello”, as I previously thought. According to wikipedia: Aloha (pronounced [əˈlōˌhä]) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a simple greeting.[1][2] I love this. I love that this multifaceted word means so many…
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Here’s one tourists guide to the Big Island – take it all with a grain of salt, but if you travel there, here’s what I learned, my best shots, and a bit about how I got them. This is a big list with lots of images, bear with me! All the above-water shots are taken…
The Blue Brick 