Rainbow Rowell

Shiloh would rather not live in an IKEA showroom. She liked old things and bright colors. She liked having too many throw pillows and too many coffee mugs. She liked rugs. And macramé wall hangings. She liked everything to be a little too much.

Slow Dance (2024), p. 151.

Hugrún Jóhannsdóttir

Inside, sweaters are shelved depending on whether the yarn is dyed or "sheep-colored." Lindis gravitated to the yarn section, where I found her petting a skein of handspun longingly. "I get it," Ms. Jóhannsdóttir said. "There's a kind of witchcraft to textiles."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/travel/iceland-knitting.html