Good yarn
Chciago Tribune - July 29 2006
Who would have predicted that knit is the new “it”?Yarn shops popping up all over. Stitch-and-bitch chatfests replacing book groups. Items made by hand—or made to look that way—are the fashion rage.
Pity the deprived boys and girls out there who have to wear store bought sweaters to school. Quite a 180 from the good old days (that would be a couple years ago) when anything handmade was hopelessly lame.
Now there are dresses, jewelry, dog clothes, belts and diaper bags showing off their home-ly origins.
Give this trend, of course the hit designer “it bag” of the summer is knit (and also purled). This Salvatore Ferragamo purse has it all: the hand hewn hippie vibe and a cool status label sensibility. It even has the classic shape of the knitting bag that would sit at grandma’s feet as she as she clicked away. [more]
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