The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

There’s this maple outside my window that I can’t get enough of. It’s so powerfully red right now, that when the sun hits it the entire living room turns this lovely golden red colour. A few days ago I bought home a leaf from said…

When I was spinning Peggy I kept wondering if spinning was supposed to be this hard. I practically had to manhandle the fiber to draft it, and ended up drafting very thin, almost to pencil roving, to make it go. Looking back, I’m amazed that…

What’s cuter than a couple where one of them is 5 foot 2 and the other is 6 foot 7? Matching hats, that’s what. Johnathan is sporting his Johnathan hat (yes, designed for him :)) and Bev is wearing her new Pasha by Jane Richmond, which…

This hat was designed for my friend Johnathan to be a man-hat that’s actually fun to knit :) Enough cable to be interesting, while still being sufficiently manly for my Scotch-Irish friend who loves Celtic cable-work. This close fitting cabled touque features a celtic cable…

I’d like to celebrate today with a free pattern for my awesome blog readers :) Thank you everyone, for making the Blue Brick such an enjoyable, inspiring experience! This simple slouch/touque is a quick, mindless, easy knit for both guys and gals, but really, it’s one…

Finally finished the Dustland Hat by Stephen West, and it goes perfectly with Tito’s Guernsey Wrap. A little too perfectly, the stitch patterns in both are almost identical. No complaints though, it made for a good match with the scarf. I totally did something wrong here,…

Whew! It’s a whopping 49 degrees with humidex here in Toronto. I confess, I love it. It hits your right in the face when you walk outside and despite knowing that I’ve got an hour and a half of Karate in this oven tonight I…

First of all I want to congratulate my amazing and talented friend Yvette on the launch of her new book ‘Toronto Graffiti‘. It documents a rich and colourful part of Toronto’s street culture heritage, and includes interviews from some of our most long-standing, history-making talented…