Saturday 19 May 2012

Purl Bee

Many of you will probably be familiar with the amazing wool and fabric shop Purl in New York's Soho. Purl Bee, their craft blog has a huge selection of patterns for really cool and contemporary things (I hesitate to use the word 'projects'), from stripy blankets to string bags. I have made quite a few of them for presents. Here are two. The owl never made it out of the house because we got a bit attached to him.


My husband recently went to NY to work and I casually mentioned that if he happened to pass Purl, could he get me a couple of things. Imagine my surprise when he phoned to say he was standing in the shop. I was grateful and jealous all at the same time. Being a photographer, he also took a few snaps for me and here they are.


LOOK at all that wool! Seeing the owl and the baby cardigan in the shop is weird. Like seeing a celebrity. I felt like I knew them. I'll stop. They have a great machine to wind the hanks of wool into balls and that's mine on the machine.