Wool necklaces for Chilly weather!

Just put up more wool jewelry in time for the Holidays! Check out our etsy shop for purchasing! and spread the word about our shop far and wide!

A queen Duvet project part 1

As I mentioned in a post at the beginning of October- I am inspired to make a duvet cover. In the past I made one for a Friend's twin size guest bed, and now, after receiving a queen duvet, I am attempting to make a cover for it- in time for our new england winter!

Above is the inspiration- a quilt from Anthropologie.

Here is the fabric. The blue floral on the far right- was leftover fabric from my sister's headboard. And since one can never pass up free fabric- this was my starting point for choosing the other fabric. I wanted to keep in mind that we have a black wooden headboard (that in the future I might repaint or make a slip cover for). Thus- I didn't want to stay with all dark colors, I needed something to balance out the black of the headboard and go with our orangy and yellow trimmed curtains.

SO- Joann was having a 30% off sale this week and I bought the yellow striped fabric and the blue fabric. Of course I have to pre wash them before I begin sewing to avoid any shrinking and seam separation. I have it easy with this project- since with the duvet I was also given a white duvet cover- so all I have to do is sew the fabric to the cover! I plan on doing some faux quilting techniques where I will sew lines up the dark blue but in a salmon color thread, and sew around the shapes of the other blue floral fabric- making it better attached to the existing cover!

I'll keep yah posted on how it progresses!

My first Fall in New England

The folks came to visit us in the middle of October. We spent the day in Kennebunkport.

Our view has already changed drastically, with more leaves turning and falling like snow- every day now...
A view from Kennebunkport. I have one Art fair coming up in November, two knitting fairs in Dec, and I am part of a group art show for December's first Friday! So I'm a busy knitting and creating bee! But I will continue to "blog" about 3 times a week... so check back often for more projects and goings on in Maine.

Custom Orders Now Available

We are now taking custom orders on our etsy shop! You dream it, we make it!

wool jewelry on etsy

I have been working on some wool and beaded jewelry for our etsy shop urbanknitfits. and here is a little sampling.... I have one other necklace up on the shop and two more awaiting their debut!

blogs and stuff you should check out

Fashion blogs.... The cool hunter The facehunter The galmourai- most of these blogs have their own list of their blog favs that you can end up bouncing around between them all day long!

vintage clothing site: Brown bag vintage on etsy Maiden Rapture vintage-etsy shop


DIY sites: ps- I made this

New Hats on Etsy!

Added new hats to our Etsy shop yesterday! Check them out here and spread the word!

scrimp, save and eat

The Husband and I have been attempting to keep better track of our finances (thanks to the mac program "numbers" we have spreadsheets that would make you blush!).

The only thing, besides rent, that we spend money on- is our groceries. There is a lot of advice out there on how to be a better shopper, and I found a great article that gives praticle advice while covering all the bases! Here's the link.

ON a lighter cooking note- I am making a mental effort at this point to cook more fall goodies! Whole Foods website has a fun assortment of treats and their pumpkin chocolate cake- pictured above, is on my list this week! And keeping my buget in mind, it helps that I have most of the ingredients to begin with.

Happy cooking and share your own fall favorites if you like!

UPDATE:

The husband and I made these for Knit night on October 27th- and they were really good! The pumpkin ingredient makes the cake super moist! It reminded us of "Wacky cake" for those of you who are familiar! I bet it would have been banging with some home made icing, next time. PS- super easy to make!