I have sung the praises of Melbourne craft-queen Penelope Durston many times before... Pene is truly the most talented crafter I know, and her gorgeous store, Cottage Industry in Gertrude st Fitzroy, is a must-visit for anyone who loves a little hand-made goodness. Cottage Industry stocks the most brilliant range of cushions, quilts, clothes, bags and other hand-crafted treasures - most of them made by Pene herself.
Gorgeous Cottage Industry tea-cosies and clothing range...
Love the little angora softies... and of course you know I can't get enough of Dell Stewart's fab hand-painted timber brooches!Today Cottage Industry turns 2 years old! Yippeee Happy Birthday Pene! To celebrate this milestone, Pene is offering a fab little giveaway of 2 pairs of her beautiful angora / lambswool fingerless gloves, for 2 lucky TDF readers! One of Pene's most popular designs, the gloves are made from NZ yarn, in 40% angora, 60% lambswool. They're knitted just outside Melbourne, and hand-dyed by Pene in her laundry sink!
The gloves come in the most delicious array of colours - lemon, lime, dahlia, ocean, sherbie, cranberry, denim, khaki, haze, tangerine, royal, lolly, buttercup, cherry and charcoal to name a few. They're available in short, medium and long... but the giveaway is for two pairs of the long variety :)
BUT the BEST bit about this giveaway, is that you get to choose your preferred colour! Oooh interactive! Check out all colours over on the Cottage Industry Big Cartel site, and when leaving your comment here, let us know which colour you choose!
Please comment before midnight tonight to be in the running! If you subscribe to these posts by email, please don't reply to the email, you gotta visit www.thedesignfiles.net to leave your comment!
Please note this giveaway has now closed! Thanks so much for all your entries!
Oh my, Lucy - I'd LOVE to win these! The Haze colour is probably my favourite, but really, any one of them would look amazing.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for such a delicious giveaway!
If I won these, I'd give them away... depending on the weather.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure these gloves will keep hands warm in winter and stop a few accidents on the road as you will be able to feel the steering wheel. I just love the charcoal colour as they would go with everything...
ReplyDeleteSo many giveaways Lady.
Kirsty Vogel
..and she is a lovely, lovely woman. cottage industry is only two, really? talk about making your mark on a community - can't imagine fitzroy without her and her fabulous store, quite frankly. these gloves are standard 'winter uniform' at galmont. we love them! x
ReplyDeleteJust to be sweet and colourful (which is important when they days get dreary and cold)I like lolly and sherbie the best.
ReplyDeleteI can wear these while I work in the icy depths of winter. Remember, it will be jolly freezing in a few months and we'll need warm hands to function!!!
I love these gloves - especially the gorgeous dahlia ones.
ReplyDeleteif i were to choose i would go with the ocean ones! who wouldn't want to look down on a cold day and see a bright blue pair of fingerless gloves!!! beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteThese are so gorgeous! I must try to get to the shop when next in Melb. I love long fingerless gloves and lived in a pair last winter. Love the blue and green ones!
ReplyDeleteFingerless gloves rock!
ReplyDeleteWho needs fingers?
Could only go charcoal in Melbourne.
Hobart winter is coming! The Tangerine ones are gorgeous. Just the thing to brighten up a cold wintery day. I can already picture holding on to a steaming cup of tea in them. What amazing give aways you have had lately!
ReplyDeletemy fav colour is Khaki, yes please
ReplyDeleteThey look lovely, and I bet they're really soft! I think khaki would go best with my autumn coat.
ReplyDeleteDelicious. Lime please.
ReplyDeletelovely lovely lovely
ReplyDeletei think the charcoal would be brilliant for winter...
thanks for the opportunity
The weather this morning reminded me that winter is on it's way... probably time to win me some woolies! ;) I like charcoal. thanks lucy & pene!
ReplyDeleteFingerless gloves! Perfect for cool autumn mornings in Melbourne…and definitely the charcoal!
ReplyDeleteI love the royal blue, but i think the charcoal ones would be more versatile. And they'd make me feel like a furry monster! haha
ReplyDeleteI could have used a pair this morning. My eyes are on the charcoal ones.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity, Lucy.
OHHH EMMM GEEE! if I don't win this I'll probably go and some of those adorable gloves, but I'll enter for a pair of the tangerine ones, just in case!
ReplyDeleteHoley dooley - they are absolutely gorgeous! Do I really have to choose? Umm... umm... ok... no, wait... umm... Cranberry!
ReplyDeleteI love the tangerine and charcoal, all of the colors are breathtaking!
ReplyDeleteI love Cottage Industry. Whenever I go in there it's always so nice & cozy, lovely!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's just getting to be weather for gloves, isn't it!
Ooh I love the look of those charcoal gloves!
ReplyDeleteAlthough the haze is gorgeous as well... any of them would be fabulous!
ding dong dell
ReplyDeleteget the pussy out the well!
lemon fingerless gloves are swell!!!
these gloves are great. i have almost worn my old pair out - almost time for a new pair ;)
ReplyDeleteIts my Girlfriends Birthday! I'm lousy at gifts! Pls Pls Pls
ReplyDeleteLove them; the Royal blue ones the most!
ReplyDeleteooh, the charcoal ones are just heavenly.
ReplyDeleteI will have to buy a pair for this winter!
Thank you for the hot tip Lucy!
Ooh! Sweet! It would be nice to win one of these cozies... Just in time for the coming cold!
ReplyDeleteoooh! I would love a pair of the charcoal! I love Penelope Durston's crafts :) I have a haze pair already but I can't wear them with all colours, so charcoal would be perfect for the upcoming winter!
ReplyDeleteI choose grey! beautiful grey! to keep my paws warm when ridin my bike.
ReplyDeleteGreat shop, and always a perfect place to buy gifts.
ReplyDeleteAll the colours are pretty rad, but my favourite would have to be 'ocean'.
these are exactly what i need for winter! gloves without losing my finger dexterity (ie can still type in the cold) thanks xxx
ReplyDeleteThe charcoal are so lovely and perfect for a Melbourne winter!
ReplyDeleteDivine. They look so waaaarm and cosy! Love Pene Durston's work. xxx
ReplyDeleteooh so many pretty colours. I like the charcoal ones. Or cherry. Or royal. tehehe
ReplyDeleteYummy colours! They look so soft! I think tangerine is super-cheery!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Cottage Industry!!
ReplyDeleteThe gloves are beautiful and I think I love the cherry color most of all. Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh how lovely for winter!
ReplyDeleteI think cherry are my favourite. Buttercup would bring some summer into the cold but I'd be wearing them all the time and I'm not at all confident that I can keep them nice and bright :P
They are gorgeous! My favourite colour is cranberry... they would look great with denim and my chocolate tweed coat.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to the Cottage Industry big cartel site, I have a feeling this could get dangerous...
I'll be in Melbourne at the end of the week! - my trip will definitely include a trip to Cottage Industry. Looks like my kind of place. As for those beautiful gloves, charcoal is my pick.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great giveaway.
Oh how lovely! They look so soft and pretty, and will be perfect for winter. So hard to choose a colour... perhaps denim?
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous - yes please!!
ReplyDeleteone of my favourite shops for staring longingly through the window. I think denim is my favourite colour... or lolly. no, denim.
ReplyDeleteoooh, these look super warm and cute - when do you get a combo like that?!
ReplyDeleteI love Charcoal and Cranberry
I was excited just to see these pop up in my reader, let alone as a give away! They're beautiful. I can definitely imagine how lusciously soft they'd feel. My favourite is dahlia.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely, I can imagine how soft they are. I think the cranberry might be my favourite.
ReplyDeleteOooohhh I have recently moved to Daylesford and these would certainly come in handy out here!! I think Cherry is my favourite, though it is very hard to choose!
ReplyDeleteSurely you have to pick a bright colour, to stand out against your ubiquitous Melbourne dark winter coat... I'd go for lime, I reckon.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win a pair of those beautiful fingerless gloves. It's my daughters birthday April 1 and she would just flip if I gave her a lime pair.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks
I would love the haze colour, please! xx
ReplyDeleteoh what a lovely treat these would be for my hands on those early starts on those cold Melbourne mornings. Fingers Crossed! tee he he
ReplyDeleteOooh it would be super to win a pair of these! Would be amazing for keeping my hands warm whilst bicycling to work.
ReplyDeleteSo hard to pick one colour...I think I'd go with...sherbie!
xx
Oh, just fabulous. Thank you for the opportunity. I'd have to say charcoal are my faves!
ReplyDeleteI've never shopped when PenPen herself has been in house, but her shopgirls are some of the friendliest and most helpful I've ever encountered.
ReplyDeleteDenim is my favourite.
Thanks for the opportunity, Lucy.
boy oh boy...my fingers and wrists would be in love with a pair of charcoal gloves.
ReplyDeletelove love xx
ooohhh how sweet are these...Happy 2nd Birthday Cottage Industry! I would not be able to go past the cherry, just perfect!
ReplyDeletei WOULD LOVE A PAIR OF THESE FOR WINTER - VERY PRACTICAL AND OH SO COLOURFUL! KG
ReplyDeleteWow, I've been meaning to buy these for about 3 winters now. I think ocean is the perfect colour!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lucy :)
Very cute - almost makes me look forward to winter! I think the lolly ones are my favourite. You spoil us Lucy...
ReplyDeleteMy goodness these are beautiful! Perfect for riding my bike in the cool weather. I love the charcoal!
ReplyDeleteBec.
i LOVEEE FINGERLESS gloves!!!!
ReplyDeleteso yes please!!!
would love a pair of tangerine ones!!
ooooh, dahlia and charcoal are the best! I'm originally from Perth too, so these are exactly what i need for melbourne winter mornings!
ReplyDeleteRoyal for me!!!
ReplyDeleteRoyal for me! I am moving into blues and greens at the moment...
ReplyDeleteocean please....snuggley ocean.
ReplyDeletehappy 2nd birthday!!
Happy Birthday Cottage Industry!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cranberry gloves would motivate me to leave the house come cold winter time!
Ooooh I love this place! I walk past every day and wished I had a pair of these. I definitely think Cranberry is my colour!
ReplyDeleteyes please! cranberry to brighten a winter jacket!!
ReplyDeleteIf I win these they will go south to my Mum in the Snowy Mountains. i love teh Ocean colour.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the introduction to your site and the opportunity.
Oh, I can't decide, they're all so great. But after pondering my wardrobe I think cherry is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I Love the lime and the charcoal, and all the other colours too....
ReplyDeletesooooo pretty and perfect for the dark and chilly morning train. I'd love the cherry gloves xoxox
ReplyDeletemmm a pair in khaki would be perfect for winters blogging to protect and frosty mouse hand.
ReplyDeletenice nice and double nice... sherbie is the colour for me!!
ReplyDeletexo
Oooh La la! Wouldn't these just be perfect for Winter!!! I would love to enter, and I think If i was lucky enough to win I'd love the grey ones! So cute!
ReplyDeleteHey ho happy birthday Cottage Industry!
ReplyDeleteThey are all lush but I think I like cherry best.
Thanks, Annalisa
When we visited Melbourne in February we stopped in at Cottage Industry quite by accident, but I was so happy we did. It's a gorgeous shop with so much lovely stock!
ReplyDeleteI think if I were to win I would love the Ocean coloured gloves.
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ReplyDeleteOh oh oh, may I put my hand up.....mmm warm hands, wrists and fists - perfect! khakiiiiii
ReplyDeletewhat a great giveaway - I love the colours!
ReplyDeleteThese are the Holy Grail of fingerless gloves that I have been searching for! A pair in lemon would make my heart smile :)))
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Lucy
awww, i would love to win the Ocean colour. i burnt my left hand and fingers in a house fire, and i'd been asked to cover up at all times so that the wounds do not become affected by the harsh sun here. it would be nice if i could cover up in a pretty way too. ;)
ReplyDeleteHow cute are these! I'd love the Charcoal ones - they'll go with everything. Yay!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous + practical = perfect
ReplyDeleteCharcoal pertty please!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the site - thanks for all the work you do on it!
Lauren
these are so beautiful. I would love a pair of these. Scotish winters are a lot colder than my beloved melbourne and my hands are taking the full brunt of it!
ReplyDeletethanks of the giveaway!!!
Love cottage industry, and those fluffy gloves look gorgeous
ReplyDeleteThese gloves are gorgeous! Fingerless are the way to go... it's too hard getting my tram ticket out with normal gloves!I think I shall have to get every colour...
ReplyDeletebecause the yellow pair would look great with my new grey-on-grey-on-grey outfit!
ReplyDeletekeeping my fingers crossed (only done with fingerless gloves)
from hallo elo
oh summer is fast disappearing,
ReplyDeletethese gloves in Royal would definitely take the edge off it!
Forest green pretty please!
ReplyDeletelovely shop and nice gloves! i think the cherry are my favourite :)
ReplyDeleteI think you've outdone yourself again with giveaways! I'm peachy keen for a pair of those lovely gloves in haze :) fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteThe gloves are gorgeous! As is Cottage Industry. If I win I'd love them in Haze - thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe gloves are beautiful. They look so soft and warm, perfect for the Melbourne winter!
ReplyDeleteThe savage in me would like green, but I often wear cranberry. Too hard to decide!
Keep up the good work.
I would love the ocean colour, to remind me of swimming at Rottnest during the Melbourne winter. Sometimes I need a helping hand to get through it!
ReplyDeletewow, gorgeous! Just what I need for this winter! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLorena
loreley214@hotmail.com
perfect fit angora - just what I need.
ReplyDeleteOoh, isn't she sweet!
ReplyDeleteThe charcoal gloves are divine.
Beautiful gloves. They look so soft and cosy, can imagine how truly luxurious they are. Which to choose... hmm I would have to say ocean. Looks beautifully fresh for a crisp wintery day. Thank-you for this opportunity.
ReplyDeleteBianca
buttercup PLEASE. x
ReplyDeleteI love Pene Durstons beautiful store Cottage Industry. I stumbled across it earlier this year whilst visiting Oz. I managed two purchases of gifts on two separate visits but would love something of my own...
ReplyDeleteThank for the chance to win.
oh count me in!
ReplyDeletehmm.. i think yellow would brighten up a wintery day for me :)
ReplyDeleteI love the charcoal ones! I am making a quilt the same colour and you always need gloves to match your quilt don't you?!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway.
Yay! I love them in charcoal.
ReplyDeleteThese would be lovely birthday pressie as it's my birthday today. Plus they would warm my fingers in the cold Canberra winter that I will soon find myself in - after the anzac weekend is when we can officially turn on heaters...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the constant inspiration Lucy!
I love the sherbie ones.
Thanks for another lovely giveaway Lucy. I'd love a charcoal pair if I am lucky enough to win.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Suzanne
oh! pick me, pick me! Charcoal please :-) Katrina
ReplyDeleteI love this shop. I really like the lime pair, but they are all gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteohhh im having tangerine dreams! tangerine pls.
ReplyDeleteDahlia would have to be my fave!! They look oh soft!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a co-inkydinks its Cottage Industry's birthday.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I need to find the perfect pressie, I head to cottage Industry.
Oooohhhhh!!!
ReplyDeleteI love them - any colour would do me. Charcoal, lime, cherry, tangerine!!?
Lauren
oh i would rather enjoy some cranberry ones just lovely.
ReplyDeleteCottage Industry is yet another reason why I have fallen head over heels for Gertrude st. Not to mention the doiley-ed trees! I'd love the gloves in royal...thanks for such a lovely giveaway, Lucy.
ReplyDeleteI would love these for riding my bike on cold winter morning - a lovely charcoal pair would perfect!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lucy!
even in australia we like pretty gloves :)
ReplyDeleteI'm getting a bit old and slow, these would certainly warm my extremities. Charcoal please, colour went out of my life with my youth.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!
What lovely colours but lime is my wife's favourite
ReplyDeleteoooh, they are so gorgeous. I would love a cranberry pair.
ReplyDeleteOh LOVE the cranberry ones!
ReplyDeleteSo many great colours but I think buttercup are my favourite - If I win I'll ride my bike to work and keep my hands warm!
ReplyDeletewow what fabulousness...i would love to sport a combo of the charcoal and green gloves...m mmm!
ReplyDeleteOh they are delishful!!!! I would love to swan around Newstead in a pair of these. Or anywhere in the world really. Please put me down for a pair of either dahlia or haze if I am the luckiest duck!
ReplyDeleteThanks heaps for this lovely opportunity.
wow what fabulous gloves and with winter riding just around the corner i would love to show off a combo of the charcoal and green gloves...tops!
ReplyDeleteYay for Pene! I would love to have my fingers wrapped up in the sweet 'buttercup' colour. How exciting! This would be much more exciting (and warming) than winning a meatplate. xox Bird
ReplyDeleteOne could only wear "ocean" while battling the cold windy mornings on the beach walking track. "What gorgeous fingerless gloves!" they would exclaim jealously as I pass!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pene and Design Files
"nicki"
they're great - just in time for winter.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ooh there are just too many shades of lovely. lets see then.....umm.. I'm thinking cranberry could be my colour for our Melbourne winter.
ReplyDeleteThanks a bunch.
if i were so lucky, i'd pick the charcoal. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely colours and they look so cozy! Hmmm... can't decide on a colour, maybe cherry! I like that colour for winter.
ReplyDeleteoooh yes as everyone has said there are too many lovely colours to pick just one favourite, but the cranberry is especially nice.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous gorgeous! Charcoal is a fab colour, very nice! Eleesa x
ReplyDeletenice - cherry is my favourite
ReplyDeleteFirst:
ReplyDeleteCongratulations and best wishes for the next at least 22 years! We are reading »The Design Files« daily.
Second:
You chose a great giveaway, and we would prefer the color sherbie.
Third:
Keep up the good work!
Finally:
Spring-Greetings from Germany!
Ooh I can't decide which I love best! Khaki, haze or practical charcoal? Will have to be haze! Love to be caught up in an angora lavender haze. Perfect for wintery bus rides. My boyfriend picked up a wooden eye brooch for me as gift the other week. It's my new favourite!
ReplyDeleteThese are so beautiful! I love the dahlia ones the best.
ReplyDeleteOh! Everything from Cottage Industry looks so lovely. The cranberry gloves look very warm and fuzzy. :)
ReplyDeleteLove and love your work Lucy. Funningly enough, I was just saying on Sunday that although I love gloves, I never wear them in the Melbourne winters, but fingerless gloves I would and really could do with. My favourites are:lime, charcoal, khaki, royal blue and denim, but they're all spunky. Thanks again for the eye and word candy everyday. xxx
ReplyDeletethank you for showing me a brilliant new place to go and buy special treats. My girlfriend just had a baby girl and now i know where to get her a little gift.
ReplyDeleteAm I too far away to enjoy these?
ReplyDeletexo.pauline
santa fe.nm.usa
ooh how FAB! I'd love to win them - i've just moved to Adelaide, but stay in touch via DesignFiles! Phew! I use to walk past all the time...ahhh
ReplyDeleteI miss Fitzroy and would love a little piece of Melbourne to keep me warm during winter. Haze and Lemon are my fave's without a doubt! Erin
For someone who has spider like long arms and fingers these beautiful gloves look perfect. The charcoal are super chic thou they're all divine
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful gloves! A haze pair would really help me through my 2nd Tasmanian winter. They look so soft and cuddly, just perfect for snuggle weather:)
ReplyDeletebeing a frequent fitzroy visitor i love your shop and gloves. they are all so gorgeous. i like the lime and the charcoa. i think they would be handy being a sometime cyclist riding to work in sydney. thanks katie
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!! I'd love to win a pair of these gloves!
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