For almost two years, we’ve been sending out a weekly newsletter, Featured Finds, where we share little tidbits from around the world that we find interesting. The topics range far and wide, and are guaranteed to be interesting, educational, or thought provoking. Once a month, we’ll be sharing the top ten highlights (on no particular…
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December Featured Finds Round Up
Happy New Year!! For the last year and a half, we’ve been sending out a weekly newsletter, Featured Finds, where we share little tidbits from around the world that we find interesting. The topics range far and wide, and are guaranteed to be interesting, educational, or thought provoking. Once a month, we’ll be sharing the…
November Featured Finds Round-Up
For the last year and a half, we’ve been sending out a weekly newsletter, Featured Finds, where we share little tidbits from around the world that we find interesting. The topics range far and wide, and are guaranteed to be interesting, educational, or thought provoking. Once a month, we’ll be sharing the top ten highlights…
Featured Find: Harvest Textiles
Harvest Textiles was founded in 2010 by Jess Wright, Emma Byrnes, Laura Davies and Frances Wilson as an ode to screen printing. From seminars and workshops featuring industry professionals to pop-up shops showcasing their amazing line of bright and cheerful products, Harvest Textiles makes sure dull and boring is the last words that come to mind…
Featured Find: Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen is a blog project founded by Deb Perelman, a woman of many trades such as “a record store shift supervisor, a scrawler of ‘happy birthday’ on bakery cakes, an art therapist and a technology reporter”. If you’re looking to create “stepped up comfort foods” that are quick, simple and elegant, she’s the woman…
Featured Find: Clothbound Classics
Although they’ve been out for a little while, we just recently discovered The Penguin Classic Series “Clothbound Classics” when browsing the internet (searching for something entirely different, as these things tend to go) and happened upon this gorgeous cover of A Tale of Two Cities. The series is a collection of book covers designed by…
Featured Find: Color Collective
Color Collective is a blog dedicated to {beautiful beautiful} color. Every day, a photograph is posted, along with a “color story” pulled from the photograph. {Color Collective: 2.28, original image via J.Crew} We could spend hours + hours looking at each image, pulling inspiration for future collections and new and exciting Fair Isle projects… {Color…
Featured Find: Craftsy
A website devoted to…well…all things crafty, Craftsy is a wonderful resource for projects, patterns + inspiration in pretty much every category of craft – knitting, sewing, home dec, crocheting, quilting, jewelry, cake decorating (yep!), spinning, weaving…the list goes on. One of the best features of the website is the Online Classes section, where students can…
Featured Find: Advice to Sink In Slowly
Advice to Sink In Slowly is a project devoted to inspiring and assisting first year design students. Started in 2006, the goal is not only to inspire, but to impart knowledge based on the experience of a recent graduate onto those just beginning their education. Write Down Everything by Thomas Austin Although quite a few…
Featured Find: The Cosby Sweater Project
We could spend hours – hours! – looking through the amazing-ness that is the Cosby Sweater Project, a website devoted to the iconic “Cosby Sweaters” from the mid-80’s – early 90’s television show. The author of the blog takes stills from episodes, draws print designs based off of the sweaters, and even adds an (often…
Featured Find: Meadowsweet Vintage
Friend (and part–time model) of Kelbourne Woolens, Stacy Bazis, just recently opened up an amazing shop in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Meadowsweet Vintage. A wide assortment of haberdashery, the store features a rotating selection of quirky and amazing vintage goods and handmade products from local artists. Stacy brings her unique and talented eye for…