relocation

It's been quite a long time since my last update with good reason. I've left San Francisco and decided to relocate my yarn to Ipswich, Massachusetts. It's been challenging like any move is, but I have to say being in a more rural area is wonderful and downtown Ipswich is great place to make the transition from city to country.

My new apartment actually has a small studio off of the kitchen which has done wonders for getting me painting again and the impending winter has got me crazy about knitting with wools. Maybe a little too crazy as my most recent Kundra Wrap is a whopping 90 inches long and 11 inches wide.

Part of it was due to wanting a serious wrap/scarf for the cold that could cover me from neck to nose and the other was some hesitation to alter the wrap pattern to make the accommodation from a worsted to a bulky yarn. My reasoning was partially due to the fact that the Cascade Jewel yarn I used is wonderfully irregular and partially due to the fact that I hate doing any kind of math.

I have a number of projects I want to work on but it's hard for me to stop making these wraps as I love seeing them in different fibers and because they all end up getting sold or given as gifts!

Etsy Sale #1!

I'm very excited to announce that today House of Defarge saw it's very first sale on Etsy!

I was hoping my first sale would be a Kundra Wrap but was just as thrilled that someone wanted to give a beautiful Mid Century Modernist Sterling Silver Cancer Pendant a good home. I put together a much smaller version of my hand knit packaging except using linen instead of burlap.

Despite today's rain in San Francisco, I rushed out to post the item to it's new owner. Of course when I was able to make the trip the wind and rain really ramped up. Paying far more attention to my umbrella blowing apart than my footing while walking by Alta Plaza Park, I did what I warn all my visiting friends about: I stepped right into the viscous ooze that leaks out of the park onto the sidewalk. This mixture of rain, vegetable matter and lord knows what else is the slipperiest stuff I have ever encountered. You could be completely aware of walking on it and still eat it. Which is what I did. I took a dramatic digger and ended up covered in the primordial park ooze.

Just in time to go to the Marina post office, were the hair is quaffed and the collars are always popped.

I waited in a long line, looking like someone threw me out of a moving truck and was still excited.

Adrienne Rogers

VIA: Remodelista

I'm absolutley crazy about her inspirations and color palate.

Packaging

I love when something is sent to me and it is packaged well. I think too much love and work go into a hand knit item to just put it into a plastic bag and a USPS box.

kundra wrap in pumpkin

This "Kundra" wrap is the second piece I have made for sale and today she will be on her way to her new owner. I wish I had taken a picture of the wrap in the color "Tomato" because it was really beautiful, but my "lady" (dress form) was out on loan and I really wanted to send her to her new owner.

I "styled" this very differently than my previous pictures because my friend Julie really inspired me when she asked to try on the wrap I happened to be wearing to her house for dinner. She threw it on just like this and started washing the dishes and it looked phenomenal, like she was wearing an animal pelt (which as an animal lover she would never do). I wish I got a picture of her.

Thanks Julie!