Missoni

So much knitting inspiration from Missoni. I love the soft colours and the easy comfort of it all. I'm not usually a big Missoni fan (too slick, maybe), but this is making me hope for a cold Spring.

Brrrrr...

It's snowing in London. A lot. I can't remember snow settling like this since I was a little kid. London is full of festive, snowman-building, snowball-chucking people.

After marvelling at it all we repaired for some mulled wine.



In other cold-weather news, I finished knitting my long fingerless cashmere gloves. I love them.

Christmas

It's that time of year again. December is running away with me, it's scary. If you're thinking of ordering from Glint this year, here are the last order dates for Christmas delivery:

UK and the Channel Islands - Saturday 20th December
Western Europe - Thursday 11th December
USA - Thursday 11th December
Japan - Tuesday 9th December
Anywhere else - please contact me

These are the last standard order dates but please contact me earlier with custom orders or if you are ordering anything particularly involved!

UK Design Fair

Thanks to everyone to came to see me at the design fair this weekend! It was a great show.

As always I had to buy something for myself as well, and I got the bargain of the century with 6 Soop mugs for a tenner. They are supposed to be seconds, but if that's the case then Wai-Lian must have extremely high standards because they seem pretty perfect to me...Jammy dodger anyone?

What I'm doing this weekend...

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Come along and see me at the
UK Design Fair, 28-30 November 2008, Shop 14, The Old Truman Brewery, corner of Hanbury Street and Dray Walk, London E1 6QL Map

There's a late night shopping evening on Friday 28th, 5-9pm, and I have some free drinks vouchers to give away - just ask!

And Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US.

Stripes

I'm a knitting-crazed fool at the moment. I want to make a stripey jumper and I found this image on style.com for colour inspiration...there is such an art to colour blending and Sonia Rykiel is always vibrant without being garish...

Layers

Perusing the catwalk photos on style.com I came accross these 3.1 Philip Lim zip pieces. They remind me somehow of this Patisserie Valerie profiterole wedding cake....


And, more obviously, of Susie Bubble's zip neckpiece...