True Colors

Our new True Colors line, honoring amazing LGBTQIA+ folks, continues this week with Quilted, a colorway paying homage to Cleve Jones and the absolutely amazeballs NAMES AIDS Memorial Quilt he created (which now weighs over 54 tons!!!). Cleve is a white gay man, who lived in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis and saw many loved ones get sick and die. He, too, got sick with AIDS but he lived, and wanted to memorialize those who were not so lucky. He was an outspoken AIDS activist who worked in City Hall, and he started a project that was to inspire the quilt. He asked everyone he came across to write down the name of someone they had lost to HIV/AID, and created a public work comprised of those names on posted on City Hall, and was struck by how much the patchwork of names resembled a quilt. So Cleve started making. And making. And making. Literally 54 tons of fabric and countless hours of work later, the quilt is now available as an interactive exhibit online. Cleve was born in the US in 1954, and is currently still alive.

This colorway used to be called Extended Camping Trip.

We are sharing a sweet pair of socks today, Shannon’s Slip Away pattern, which features Quilted.

You can find all of our True Colors on our website, including this week’s releases!

We are super pleased to share this new/old colorline with you! When JK Rowling showed her true colors as a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), we knew we couldn’t continue to promote or profit off of our color line inspired by her best-known work, but we also loved so many of the colorways we created, so we decided to repackage them into a smaller color line, paying homage to people in the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special emphasis on Trans folk. From 9/16 – 11/25, we’ll be sharing 2 of the colorways from this new True Colors line a week, here on Instagram and on our blog, telling a bit of these stories (you know how we love a good story!). We hope you enjoy honoring this fab group of groundbreaking individuals as much as we have enjoyed learning more about them. We are starting out our journey with two of our favorite colorways from the set, honoring two Trans women who did so much for Trans rights and their communities.

One of our all-time favorite colorways ever, Stonewall is named for the inimitable Marsha P. Johnson, who lived in the US from 1945-1992. Johnson was a Black Trans woman who was one of the inspirations/instigators of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion along with Sylvia Rivera (look out for a colorway inspired by Sylvia in a few weeks). The P in her name stood for “Pay it No Mind.” Johnson had a glowing personality; everyone loved her. She was a mother figure to many young Trans people, and worked to provide housing for young Trans people in NYC. She founded STAR house in 1970, which was a 4-bedroom apt for Trans folk to live in. Her legacy lives on in many ways, one of which being the Marsha P. Johnson Foundation, which organizes and advocates for Black Trans people. This colorway was originally called Spectrespecs.

We are sharing two projects that feature Stonewall, both from designer Shannon Squire. Margaret Sullivan’s Shawl is in 2 skeins of our Fingering, and Short Attention Span Socks are in our Sock base.

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You can find all of our True Colors on our website, including this week’s releases!

We are super pleased to share this new/old colorline with you! When JK Rowling showed her true colors as a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), we knew we couldn’t continue to promote or profit off of our color line inspired by her best-known work, but we also loved so many of the colorways we created, so we decided to repackage them into a smaller color line, paying homage to people in the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special emphasis on Trans folk. From 9/16 – 11/25, we’ll be sharing 2 of the colorways from this new True Colors line a week, here on Instagram and on our blog, telling a bit of these stories (you know how we love a good story!). We hope you enjoy honoring this fab group of groundbreaking individuals as much as we have enjoyed learning more about them. We are starting out our journey with two of our favorite colorways from the set, honoring two Trans women who did so much for Trans rights and their communities.

This stunning colorway is French Court, and it honors Chevalière D’Eon, who lived in France from 1728-1810. D’Eon was a White Trans woman who was a secret spy for the French King; she spied on Russia and England, presenting as male the whole time. She transitioned at 49 and was formally presented to the court as a woman – the first trans woman to be presented/accepted at French court. This colorway was originally called Spattergroit. 

We are sharing two patterns that feature French Court, both from designer Shannon Squire. Bobble-Palooza is a hat in our Worsted base, and Pee Dee Queue socks are in our Sock base.

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You can find all of our True Colors on our website, including this week’s releases!