Warming — adult pair
Long Dark Mittens
Hand-crocheted in undyed oatmeal, mushroom or natural brown wool. Thick, wind-tight, made to order in two to three weeks.
$85
Seasonal collection
The Long Dark Collection
From November to the first mud of spring, Maine turns inward. The kettle stays on. The wool comes down off the hooks. This is one small run of the things that get us through: mittens by the door, cocoa on the stove, dark fudge cut thick, and candles for the hours the sun gives up early.
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Mittens & cocoa
The two things kept nearest the door and nearest the stove.
Warming — 8 oz tin
Maine Maple Cocoa
Dark cocoa whipped with Maine maple sugar and a pinch of sea salt. About eight cups to a tin.
$14
Light
Candles for the dark hours
Poured in small batches, labeled black on white — plain, like everything else here.
Candles — three 4 oz
Long Dark Candle Trio
Ember & Wool, Snowed-In Kitchen and Midnight Pine, boxed in kraft with moss.
$48
Candle — photography coming
Candle
Ember & Wool
Smoked wool, wood ash and amber — a room that has held a fire all day.
$18
Candle — photography coming
Candle
Snowed-In Kitchen
Browned butter, cardamom and dark honey. Storm-day baking in a jar.
$18
Candle — photography coming
Candle
Midnight Pine
Black spruce, cold pine resin and a thread of birch tar.
$18
Sweet
Dark chocolate sea salt fudge
The winter block. Bittersweet, cut heavy, salted on top.
Fudge — half pound
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Fudge
Deep bittersweet chocolate finished with flaked sea salt.
$12
Fudge — full pound
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Fudge
The same block, cut heavy for a house that shares.
$22
Pantry
Preserves & the pantry box
Put up in the fall, opened when the road is bad.
Gift box
The Long Dark Pantry Box
Two 8 oz preserves, a half pound of dark chocolate sea salt fudge, a Snowed-In Kitchen candle and a pair of mittens, packed in kraft and moss.
$75
Provisions — 8 oz
Finch Mercantile Mincemeat
Fruit-forward and spiced, put up for winter pies.
$15
Provisions — 8 oz
Maker's Mark Whiskey Caramel
Dark caramel with a slow finish of bourbon.
$15
Cloth
Heavy wool for the season
Made to order, three to five weeks, worked one shade at a time.
Fiber — 50 × 60 in
Old Pine Rib Blanket
Deep ribbed texture in natural brown wool. The heaviest blanket in the house.
$375
Fiber — pair
Old Pine Rib Dish Towels
The same ribbing worked flat in cotton-linen for the sink or the oven door.
$70
The written pattern for the Long Dark Mittens is $4.95 in the Digital Shop, alongside the House Collection.
Kitchen
Cold month baking kits
One kit a month, November through March, boxed with everything but the butter.
Cold month baking kit
November — Frost & Fireside
$48
Cold month baking kit
January — Snowdrift Cabin
$52
Cold month baking kit
February — Hearts & Hearth
$54
Cold month baking kit
March — Mud Season Maple
$58
The Mercantile Letter
Notes from the workroom
Seasonal shop openings, new patterns, and what's rising on the kitchen counter. Sent quietly, never often.