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SEWING || MAKE MY WARDROBE - PHINNEY RIDGE CARDIGAN

SEWING || MAKE MY WARDROBE - PHINNEY RIDGE CARDIGAN

If you've been following along on social media and my newsletter you will have seen that my friend (and fellow knitwear designer) Andrea Rangel and I are getting each other motivated to build our handmade wardrobes by having a casual sew along/knit along called "Make My Wardrobe". We've got a plan to examine our current wardrobes and get making the pieces that are missing! I'm so excited! Our focus will be on pieces that compliment the clothes we already have, in particularly our lovely handmade pieces like hand knit sweaters and more. We plan to try to make the same sorts of things, but not always the same patterns and not always at the same pace. 

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CREATIVITY || THE IMPORTANCE OF HANDMADE MEMORIES

CREATIVITY || THE IMPORTANCE OF HANDMADE MEMORIES

I had a wonderful reminder recently of the importance of making handmade memories and how powerful they can truly be. My Omi, who is an avid knitter, loved to make Cowichan Sweaters, vests etc. We all had them when I was growing up - my parents, my Omi and Opa, my sisters and I, you name it - we wore it.

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