Smith Street Pulswärmer

Winter. It will come.

And I will be ready for you.


Smith Street Pulswärmer

100% animal fibres.

'Mrs Tatlow has a Gun'

Anyone out there who remembers the haunted house in Epping? We'd throw our dragsters into the grass, clamber over Darebin Creek and steel our way along an avenue of black, whispering pine trees to the Haunted House. We'd climb a broken staircase to explore the upper storey, and peer through the broken floor of the cellar to glimpse (rumoured) dead bodies ready to scream ourselves stupid at any moment. We were terrifed of ghosts, but we were even more scared of the land-owner, Mrs Tatlow. Someone was always on watch, and you'd darken your dacks in an instant at the cry "It's Mrs Tatlow - and she's got a GUN!"



Despite having a good 'google' I can't find anything about the bluestone homestead that was a source of cheap thrills for me and my dragster-cruising pals in the early 70s. The house was demolished and the site 'urban-growthed' in the 80s, along with a some uninspiring gentrification of the creek and banks.

I pay homage to that once-majestic and imposing house with this yarn. Whenver I think about a pure wool '8ply' yarn this is the time in my life that my thoughts come back to.

As for Mrs Tatlow and her gun - I believe she existed, living further south on the property in a cream brick veneer that was later to become the school caretaker's house when the new High School parcelled some of the land. But I never saw her, and never heard a gun.

Why, look! A product card!

Please be patient with me while I work through this obsession.

Oh, look, it's more variegated yarn

Yeeee-eees!

Kind of went all air-punchy with this one.

Edwina Dye-Pot Hands

I am in aesthetic crisis.

I cannot stop dyeing variegated yarn.


To know me is to know that I am natively, resolutely monochromatic.


Help.

Your Dad's camera, your Nan's bad taste in colour #2

Smith Street Kamera Gurt

 

So kooky.
Now at Lost & Found.

Your Dad's camera, your Nan's bad taste in colour

Smith Street Kamera Gurt
Available shortly at the new Lost & Found Market location 1-5 Perry Street, Collingwood




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