drjanmartin

We started asking questions about the environmental impact of the yarns we sell. What we found may surprise you. New blog series starts now.

Do you have a button box? We do, but ours might be a bit bigger than yours... Our button box contains a multitude of button tins Even so, we are always delighted when other people's button boxes come our way. They are often tins, but sometimes they are wooden, cardboard, papier-mâché or even Bakelite. Often they come to us following a death - generally people are not parted from their button tins when they are alive! I spend a great deal of time going through the collections that arrive....

Need inspiration for a slow stitching project? Here's a pretty bookmark that we made using materials from one of our stitch meditation boxes.