About this bench

I started keeping these notes in 2021, after the third person at the market asked for "the mitten recipe." Writing a thing down forces you to understand it; publishing it forces you to be honest about the parts that went wrong. Both turned out to be good for my making.

Everything here was actually made at this bench — the wool carded on rainy Sundays, the pots pinched between kettle boils, the quilt blocks pressed flat with an iron older than I am. Photos show hands and work, because the work is the point.

The shop keeps the lights on

The patterns are cheap on purpose and the kits are priced like I'd want to pay for them. If a pattern doesn't make sense, write to me and I'll fix the pattern — not the customer.

Comments are open on every post. The only rule is the market rule: be the kind of person you'd share a bench with.

— Rowan Hale, somewhere near the coast