look what we made on friday! a skirt based on liesl + co’s everyday skirt pattern and yoshiko jinzenji’s simple quilt fabric! looks sort of avant-garde, no? the best part is that making the skirt out of this particular fabric is a bit like opening up a box of chocolates . . . you never quite know where the patterned patches are going to fall on the skirt until you’re done. every skirt ends up being totally unique! plus . . . it’s super comfy, and has got these wonderful…
Look who just sashayed through our doors! Betsy — an all-time favorite Liberty Tana Lawn classic — now available in a stunning and sassy shade of red . . . find Betsy S here. Part of the Liberty Classics refresh for 2014/2015.
georgina . . . toddler summer dress . . . for those who knit and sew . . . pattern in the works!
remember those nani iro pants we made for our favorite rambunctious toddler? well, the kid liked them so much we decided to make him another pair (albeit in a larger size – the gray version). we also stitched up 2 more pairs for E & M, our favorite set of fraternal twins to wear a few months down the road. E is quite a bit larger than M, and hence he gets a 86 cm pair while we whipped up an 80 cm…
the design team at liberty has refreshed their tana lawn Classics collection, introducing some entirely new prints, re-colouring existing prints in an unexpected way and editing out some long-time favorites. examples of new prints include Prince George (above in color ways A and D), issued to celebrate the birth of Prince George to the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge and Ciara (below). we were surprised at how different some of the re-coloured Classics are. check-out the new Strawberry Thief palates — the 3 new colourways we…
done at last, and in the midst of writing up the pattern . . . it seems like a mile long! well actually 24″ x 80″ . . . too long to fully lay out on the bed . . . and as such, we’re using the floor instead. thoroughly enjoyable to knit . . . as the pattern is really quite simple (as lace patterns go) entirely knit by hand with joie de cashmere in arctic hyacinth . . . coming soon! …
fresh off the sewing machine . . . double knit jersey pants for our favorite ‘lil dumpling . . . stitched out of nani iro’s herring bone painting double knit fabric. and here’s our mini fit model . . . off to the races in his new pants . . . . . . it seems the pants are good for sprawling on the carpet . . . . . . and not too shabby for lounging around to read a book. check back soon…
nyc might be covered in snow but liberty’s spring summer 2014 collection has landed! yipee! we selected 16 delicious prints: theodora a isle of wight (a and c) queue for the zoo (a and c) forget-me-nots a delilah cavendish a daniel’s dj poppy’s patchwork b willow (b and d) jess and jean (a and c) ombrellino a asaka a juno’s garden c
our sartorial-minded friend (you know, the one that commissioned us to knit somerset) has been hounding us for the past 2 years to make him a pair of splendid earmuffs. of course, he didn’t wear the over the head variety . . . the ear muffs had to be the sort that went behind one’s neck. when we actually set about the task, it took us about 6 months to track down a “behind the neck” ear muff frame supplier . . . but we did and…
it’s a bird! it’s a plane! it’s our super speedy sheep of steel beret! we opened our box of sheep of steel twisted bobbles handspun yarns yesterday and got straight to work. we knit the entire 36 row beret in about 2.5 hours — no doubt less time than it would take to walk to madison avenue, battle the crowds, and buy a beret (much needed these days, given that it’s FREEZING in NYC!). irem, the british textile artist that spins each skein by hand,…