Welcome back to my several part series on the life of one of the best people I know: Teruo Hirokawa If you haven't read the first part of...

The Teruo Hirokawa Files: Part 1 The Beginnings of a Master Tailor I have no idea where a person should begin when telling the life story...

It's been a minute. Between making jumpers and preparing for autumn, and all of the micro-jobs involved in having a small studio, and...

"The Goat Coat": Part 3. Tailoring comes on Tuesday this week. What a lucky bit of alliteration. I decided to keep an open mind on my...

Another Sunday came and went. The inevitable drum beat of change is overwhelmingly loud once again. I fucking hate that sound....

Scenes from a Tokyo Tailor Shop The "Goat Coat": Part 1 On Sunday I get the privilege of spending 8 hours making coats. It's the only day...

In the last six months of my life, (which I’ve decided to call “The great depression”) I have noticed another emotion bubbling to the top...

“Hurt an artist, and you’ll see masterpieces of what you’ve done” - unknown This is not the first thing I wanted to talk about here, but...

If you haven't noticed (via love and wool), my favourite thing in the world is fairisle knitting. I love stranded colour work. I adore...

Real Fairisle knitting is one of the joys of my existence. Working with shetland wool feels intuitive, like what knitting should be. I...

I've been treading water lately. Keeping time. Filling time. Trying to make the days bearable, until the next thing I have to look...

In 1979, an American psychologist called Dorothy Tennov wrote and published "Love and Limerence, the Experience of Being in Love". In a...

If you've ordered yarn from me in the last few weeks...from this website, you've also received one of these stickers. I'm throwing them...

It's golden week. I loathe golden week with the fire of a thousand suns. It rips my rhythm to shreds, there are people everywhere and...