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 Hello! Happy Spring!  I'm very excited about the warming weather.  It means I can start planting all of my plants outside to start this year's garden.  This year I have ...

     The last few months have brought so many exciting changes to Verb. Last week Kristine told the story of the California Wool Project, our first adventure with creating our o...

  In Horizon's journey from sheep to shelf, it all starts with Sally Fox. Sally's story is unique. Her farm is dedicated to the growth of raw materials for making textiles, and to growing them, bo...

         Hey everybody! We've had some requests to host a sew-along for Colette's newest sewing pattern--Laurel. Just in time to be able to participate in their bi...

  Hey all! I just found this Ted Talk yesterday that was insanely surprising. The talk is called "Grow your own clothes", and being the crazy homesteading seamstress I am, it sounded like m...

Quince & Co. Owl arrives,    Julie Weisenberger unveils her very first sewing pattern, Emma, designed exclusively for Verb,      Marcel gets a haircut,   an...

  Ever since we naturally dyed that first batch of yarn, six years ago, I have dreamt of our own line of yarn made from California wool.  Verb Little did I know the journey I would take in order t...

Colette Patterns just released a new pattern, and we have it here in the shop! Laurel is a simple but cute shift dress that is very versatile and comfortable.   There is also...

Wow! We made it through another Stitches West - and this was our 5th Stitches West and best one yet.  We had a wide variety of colorways, in sweater quantities, of even our most diffi...

 From Cloud9 Fabrics, some lovely new organic quilting cotton prints designed by Rashida Coleman-Hale. What will you make with them? -HD

Any fears we had of empty shelves were put to rest last week, with the arrival of a long-anticipated shipment from Madelinetosh. The brick-and-mortar shop is now well-stocked in Madelinetosh Chunky...

Here on San Pablo Ave, there are empty shelves and an eery sense of...calm. Everyone else is down in Santa Clara, or en route, gearing up for Stitches West. Even Cleopatra senses the excitement in ...