meet pembina worsted, a brand new 100% canadian prairie wool yarn sourced entirely from the pembina fibreshed. it’s the newest core yarn base for sunflower knit! see the rainbow of naturally dyed colours from local plants and the sweet knits you can make with your skeins.

meet red river dk, a brand new 100% bfl yarn sourced entirely from the pembina fibreshed. see the rainbow of naturally dyed colours from local plants and the sweet knits you can make with your skeins.

the japanese art of furoshiki is a great way to make zero-waste gifting a beautiful affair…

the latest new moon love note is up on youtube now! find more details and links about me-made wardrobe makes, knitting projects, #bosswitch small business activities, daily adventures with willow, natural dye pots, and more…

the latest new moon love note is up on youtube now! find more details and links about me-made wardrobe makes, knitting projects, #bosswitch small business activities, daily adventures with willow, natural dye pots, and more…

it’s time for slow fashion october, aka one of my favourite check-ins of the year! similar to me-made may as far as being an opportunity to review your wardrobe, i actually like slow fashion october better because of the conversations that come from it, and the focus on slow fashion as a whole rather than solely me-made items. here’s an example of some items that i love and wear and would “qualify” within slow fashion october but not me-made may…

with everyday magic volume ii: open-hearted, i debuted a bit of a shift in my knitwear models - my dear one, bryce, wears two of the three patterns. i chose him for a few reasons, some of which are really complex, others of which feel like second nature, but basically it boiled down to this:

• using only myself for photos gets tricky, especially for certain kinds of items (although i'm getting better at them, but it's still more enjoyable to spend a shorter period of time getting a bunch of good shots rather than spending an hour twisting myself into a pretzel for semi-focused shots)

• i'm very bad at a) asking for help b) having the patience to rearrange my packed schedule to accommodate others' similarly packed schedules and c) feeling comfortable asking someone for something that i then need to rely on them for

• i'm a femme and style things as such, which means i inevitably get people asking why i don't design "things for men". that's the primary topic of this post.

slow fashion april has given way to me-made may. it's my favourite time of year to check in with my slow fashion journey and see how my wardrobe has grown and shifted over the course of the past year. when i first started participating four years ago, i think i had two dresses and maybe one top to wear, and then a rotation of handknit shawls. my wardrobe has shifted drastically since then, particularly in the past half year or so since i left my full-time office day job to a part-time work-from-home admin job/creative self-employed biz life all the rest of the time.

i went with the gaggle (samson, bryce, and owen) to the pinawa dam last sunday for a day trip. we wanted to escape the city, and having samson in from nova scotia was a perfect excuse to go visit the pinawa dam, which sits a little over an hour outside of winnipeg. it's currently still the off-season, which meant we had very few interruptions from other visitors during our adventuring. it also meant that the weather was cold enough to keep the water mostly frozen without being unbearably cold. all of that is a good thing, because we wandered all over the place and took our time for photo ops.