Front Porch

Fiona Lenord is the beauty behind Australian label Front Porch. From her home in the mountains she collects and repurposes all kinds of textiles from local op shops. Along with her pretty amazing mum they are whipped into shape and given new life as dresses, cushions, ponchos, and my favourite, wool blanket bunting!

I was lucky enough to work with Fiona when we designed prints for homeware textiles. Her eye for colour and pattern is the best bar none, full stop.

To find her, just visit The Front Porch Facebook Page where she holds online sales between peddling her wares at Sydney and Blue Mountain markets.

 

Images by Fiona Lenord & Family. 

 

Pickles...

My friend Max always passes on the very best finds online! 


Her advice to me was to check out this lovely Norwegian shop and blog. If you are needing some new balls of wool for this season's knitting projects they are having a little sale on their Abuelita Merino Wool! I wonder if they post to Australia? Oh! And orders outside of Norway get another 25% off?! Hmmm... This is sounding quite wonderful! 


I'm not sure about you but my fingers are itching to get back into some pearl and plain... I've just picked up some nice Peapod Blue Sky Alpaca/Silk from Threads and More and have cast-on about 6 different times now - I just can't seem to decide what kind of pattern I should use... indecisive! Garter? Double Rib? Moss??? Or something more adventurous? I'm making a tube-y kind of scarf, one you twist around your neck, but wanted an interesting texture... if anyone has some inspiration let me know!

A new knitting project!

A new knitting project began after perusing the lovely Wool Shack website... they have such a divine range of yarns and could not resist bundling up some of the Sublime Cotton Organic. And I thought a nice new set of needles wouldn't go astray either (I chose the very sensible Baah Harrah Painted Floral ones). The girl's promised it would be a treat to open the parcel and they were right. And so great to knit with. I have taught myself a new daisy stitch with a few trial and errors, though I kinda like those random mistakes and wobbly edges. A salute to the hand-made!

Wish List

I've been collecting all the things I would like to buy in a bookmarks folder called "Wishlist" in attempt to stop the spontaneous spending. The idea is, if I still want these things in a month, perhaps they are actually worth buying. However, having them in the wishlist seems to heighten their desire-ity to greater levels. Oh well.

1. A Chloe Pleat Panel Dress inspired by sails in the wind... half price on Net-A-Porter, but still about 3 times the amount I'd like it to be!

2. The Martin Sitbon Pebbled Bucket Tote, which as far as I can see is not available anywhere. A relief as I would have to have it otherwise! It turns out that Sitbon designed for Chole, which really makes perfect sense.

3. Savannah DK at the Loop Shop, UK... a yummy hand dyed .organic blended yarn of cotton, merino, linen and silky soy fibre. Favourite colours are as follows: Bluegrass, Bleu Marine, Seafoam, Crimson, Moss and Pink Grapefruit.

4. The Whistler Knit boots by Ugg.... the grey ones are my favourite... so cosy and warm! P.S. My shoe size is 9 if you would like to bless me with these snugglers!

5+6.  I am desperate for some good SPF Moisturiser and have heard that Kiehl's deliver the goods... Not sure which one would be better though. Being a sucker for packaging the Abyssine is looking good.

7. Some more lovely wool, this time Australian Made by Pear Tree Yarn. 

The Oishi Merino is inspired by Japanese vintage Kimono's in colours such as Acacia, Eucalyptus, Jacaranda, Pilbara and Rosella. Ooooo!

8. These lovely prints are by Hanna Konola of Helsinki. Recycled paper too! They would look quite nice next to my Fifi print!

I thought it would be fun for everyone to vote for what I should buy next month! Please let me know and your reason.