Meet the Maker: Autumn Fussell (aka dottie angel)
Our new Meet the Maker video is here! We have a lovely short film for you this week where you can ‘meet’ Autumn Fussell (aka dottie angel), of Curious and Coe! A friend to Loop for years, Autumn has taught at Loop both in our London shop and at our NYC popup and designed the Rosemaling Mitts that grace the cover of our 10th Anniversary book. We hope you enjoy this peek into her incredibly inspiring world and atelier as well as hearing her story. And keep on reading as we have a pattern round up from the newly released Making No. 9!
Autumn’s blogging ‘career’ started when she first moved to Washington in 2000. She fell in love with Etsy when it first launched, as it gave her a platform for her creativity. She started blogging around the same time, as the two seemed to go hand in hand, and that’s when dottie angel was born, with all of her fab bohemian outfits!
The idea for Autumn’s famous ‘woolly tattoos’ came about when she took a job at a local yarn shop (Tolt Yarn and Wool!) and wanted to be able to use all the colours and fibres, but she wasn’t completely a knitter. She took her knowledge of embroidery after being inspired by a Japanese book and set off using wool!
Autumn’s woolly tattoos feature in our Loop’s 10 book, to mark our 10th anniversary! Her Rosemaling Mitts are on the cover!
Autumn now owns and runs the Curious Atelier with her youngest son in Carnation, Washington. The atelier is sadly not open at the moment, but if you’re there in the future you should pay Autumn a visit! It is a beautiful shop and gallery space, which you can see in our Meet the Maker video. Autumn’s online shop for the Curious Atelier is open, and is packed full of goodies!
We have so many wonderful threads and wools for you at Loop to begin your own ‘woolly tattoo’ as well as Japanese embroidery books. We have restocked our Teinture Sauvage thread sets, so you’ll be able to get started! Mini skeins are also perfect for woolly tattoos, and we have just received more gorgeous minis from The Little Grey Sheep!
We are working on a kit with Autumn too for her ‘Somebunny’ crochet and woolly tattoo critters and hope to have these ready in early Autumn so watch this space as well as Curious and Coe of course.
Thank you to @curious.and.coe and to Richard Jung for another wonderful short film!
Making No. 9 – Simple
We just wanted to let you know we now have copies of the newest edition of Making magazine! This is a lovely issue with lots of great knitting and sewing patterns, as well as craft projects that use punch needle, embroidery, screen printing and dyeing!
Here’s a little round up of our favourite knitting patterns!
- Milkweed Pullover by Pam Allen – knitted in Quince & Co. Sparrow
- Plover Cardigan by Jacqueline Cieslak – you could use Isager Highland Wool
- Eyelet Pullover by Orlane Sucche – you could use mYak Tibetan Cloud
- Simple Slippers by Cal Patch – knitted in Quince & Co. Puffin
- Lomo Shawl by Bristol Ivy – you could use Woolfolk TYND
- South Turner Hat by Leila Raven – knitted in Quince & Co. Chickadee Organic Heathers
All images here copyright of Making Magazine.
BT Apart Together
A reminder that today, 15th May, is the final day in the wonderful initiative from Brooklyn Tweed #ApartTogether where all of our Brooklyn Tweed yarns are 30% off. From Saturday 16th the prices will return to normal.
We want to thank Brooklyn Tweed and everyone who nominated us as their LYS when purchasing direct through Brooklyn Tweed or through us. This initiative has helped us, and other independent local yarn shops, enormously. Heartfelt thanks.
its all so fabulous, im going to send my daughter a gift card for her birthday, she is a perfectionist with her knitting so this will suit her …thanks
Oh my goody goodness. I’ve just watched the little delite of a short film of Dottie Angel. Thankyoo soooo much for making these wonderful visual treats. A bit like chocolate and joy and sunshine all imbibed by the viewer. Me! Ha haha. I so wish I was in yor neck o the woods, I’d be in yor shop regularly and have stock piles of wool and embroidery stuff in my house… but I like on the utha side o the planet and haberdashery shops are near extinction.
Coz I’m hopeless at technology, I’m not too sure about how to do stuff on line, but am going to attempt to purchase yor 10 year anniversary book. Thankyou for being. I need stuff like this in my life to keep me insane/sane….. ha ha ha.
I do hope that sum Julie Arkel stuff is in the book too. She feels like a soul sister.
Anyway… thanx heaps again…
Annie du Winter… Australia down unda…..
Hi Annie du Winter, I agree, I too live in Australia and I would love some decent yarn and haberdashery stores nearby.
Regards Claire
This Pinterest posting has been good for my soul.Thankyou. It’s so times lonely as a crew and you have brightened my day. Thankyoux
What a great site! Love ” Meet the Maker”. Wonderful is discover what drives, inspires, sparks folks to create.
Inspiration abounds!