Summertime has arrived in Detroit and the colours have come out to play! I spent a day visiting the DIA and Eastern Market, basking in the visceral warmth of a city filled with anarchic colour. The Eastern Market is alive with colour and people, flowers and plants filling every available outdoor space, with food stalls occupying the indoor ones. The sheer life that blooms here i.

Wool and Buttons ceased trading on 31st July 2015. We have enjoyed more than 4 years of trading. A big thank you goes out to all our customers and suppliers for your support, custom and friendship during that time.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Long-promised yarn photos and some recipe links. Pretty purple handspun wool from the Yarn Basket in Tecumseh, MI. 50 a skein! Lovely undyed handspun thick-and-thin wool and mohair, also from the Clinton Woolen Mill. Instead I wanted to do some simple, therapeutic knitting for myself, .

The Doom, As it Were. All of my project bags containing all of my unfinished projects mysteriously disappeared. I could drag this out further, but honestly, from this point things escalated quite quickly.