Vintage Baby in Spacing Magazine

Spacing is a Toronto-based mag. Check it out at www.spacing.ca for more info on the mag. There is a section called Public Goods and it features my Hogtown Onesies. Hogtown was a nickname given to Toronto back in the day.

Hogtown – Related to the livestock that was processed in Toronto, largely by the city's largest pork processor and packer, the William Davies Company (from Wikipedia) William Davies Company used to operate the second largest pork processing plant on the continent back in the 1860s. (from a google search why is Toronto called Hogtown?)

Why did I make the design? Well, I like pigs and the nickname. Why not show some Toronto pride?

My First Phat Fiber Box

In August I successfully bought a limited edition phat fibre box on Etsy. It is an interesting concept wherein independent and small businesses submit samples of yarn, roving, and yarn related accessories and patterns. The box is then "dropped" twice on the sale day (it happens once a month) at the Etsy shop and folks buy them up as fast as they can before they dissapear (which takes literally two minutes). You can find the Etsy shop here. You can receive email notification of when the box goes on sale by signing up here. It was a lot of fun to join the rush of folks online in order to nab one of these exclusive goodie boxes. I will be sampling the yarn in the weeks to come and will blog about my experience. Although I am busy back at my full-time job and juggling various festivals with my Vintage Baby Revival clothing and accessories I will do my best to post about as many of these products as possible.