A couple of things have crossed my desk recently, so thought I’d share:

1. Vintage buttons. Our reclusive next-door neighbor who passed away last fall left a house full of everything from stacks of egg cartons and 20 years of newspapers to all of his mother’s belongings. His mother, a working woman from way back, was a seamstress in the Brown Palace’s linen department. When she died in the early ‘90s, she left all kinds of fabrics, threads and sewing bits, and like any good Depression-era matron, an amazing box of buttons.

I am thrilled and honored to have them. (See that tortie in the upper left corner? That’s going to become a sweater!)

2. Taos Sunflower, one of the most inspiring yarn shops you’ll ever visit, has new stock of its wild-and-wooly Homegrown Handspun. Really cool stuff. Check it out.

3. Am completely besotted by Marta McCall’s Flower Market Bag. What a beauty.