You say summer, I still say knit and you can't take the K word out of my mouth.  Hey I can't help it if there's not that special stirring in my loins when I get excited about the new collections that everyone was poring all over when the shows were on.  Wait a little while longer and I'll get all stirred up soon enough.  In the meantime, it's the quieter collections that are shouting out to me.  By quiet, I mean collections sans show and media hoo-ha....and they seem to all revolve around knits in some way. 

Clare Tough S/S 09  is convincing me that I need to keep looking for mop-textured clothes.  More specifically bristle tops that tier exactly like this cardigan...

I don't quite possess the right attitude to pull off sexy crochet bras.... I'm working on it.... if I can layer it over a slip I might just manage. // Lace gets knitted for the summer carrying through what's going on this season into the next in a more delicate way...

Curtain tassels come to mind; the type that my mum would insist on having in the house and would always feel ridiculously heavy...except on the dress here it looks featherlight...

Tim Ryan has had me suitably fringed up for the winter with his black scarf that has constantly been by my side (his grey giant pocketed cardi has also become my on-flight essential...) and for S/S 09, the fringe carries on.... flaring out from delicately knitted skirts, wide-legged trousers and as capes.  Again, there's a delicacy and lightness of hand to everything that makes me yearn for layers and layers of summer knits folded up in between layers of scented tissue paper in a canvas lined box (don't ask me why that's my exact vision of how to keep summer knits...).