This weekend I learned how to knit for the first time. I already love sewing and after reading so many wonderful knitting blogs and checking out different vintage knitting patterns I was inspired to try.  Over the summer I had bought some yarn and Michaels (its super soft purple acrylic yarn – that you can see in the above photo) but I never had time to start working with it.  Over the weekend my mother taught me to knit, purl, and cast on and so now I’m working on a winter scarf!

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Don’t you just love back to school shopping?

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My favorites are the animal rings (especially the stag ring) but they have a ton of other amazing things like knife and bullet necklaces and cufflinks (one with a hunter, and the other with a deer).  This particular collection is perfectly my style, and I love the use of such rough and vicious in such beautiful jewelry. The designer, Aaron Ruff had a carpenter father and went to the Parsons School of Design for furniture design, and you can definately see that showing up in the rustic elements of his jewelry.  If I ever have the cash to spend so much on jewelry, I’m definately trusting Digby and Iona to outfit my fingers.

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No one can tell me,

Nobody knows,

Where the wind comes from,

Where the wind goes.

It’s flying from somewhere

As fast as it can,

I couldn’t keep up with it,

Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding

The string of my kite,

It would blow with the wind

For a day and a night.

And then when I found it,

Wherever it blew,

I should know that the wind

Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them

Where the wind goes…

But where the wind comes from

Nobody knows.

-A.A Milne

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