aurelie tu: felt housewares

Aurelie Tu is an Industrial Designer originally from Canada. Having earned her practical ID work experience with Hauser in L.A. and Nike in Portland, she has branched out and created her own line of modular interlocking felt homewares. The Portland designer now works together with women at the YWCA in order to create these handmade felt pieces. Her line includes a pendant light and table runners made from the same interlocking materials.

miyoshi barosh: crochet assemblage sculpture

Miyoshi Barosh is a graduate of both the Rhode Island School of Design, and the California Institute of the Arts. Her soft sculpture is an accumulation of many layers, colors and textures. Miyoshi blends embroidery, crochet and knitting using recycled sweaters and blankets as raw materials for her dimensional, cozy sculptures.
Her work can be found at the Luis De Jesus, Bergamot Station in Santa Monica California.
www.luisdejesus.com

weidesign netherlands: felt bags

WeiDesign is a new label launched during Dutch Design Week offers modern wool felt and vegetable-tanned leather bags. Top bag can house magazines.

eugenia kim: millinery

Recessionista alert: Tar-jay (Target) with be partnering with very talented milliner, Eugenia Kim to offer some more affordably priced hats. I'll be in line! Eugenia Kim's Target collection will be available April 18th- June/July 2010, this is her second team up with a large retailer, her first was Urban Outfitters. I must add that these hats are from her regularly priced line, we'll have to wait and see what she brings to Target.

felted slippers: bure bure

It is so cold, all I can think about is felted slippers! Bure Bure

felted pleasure: haute jewelry

Soft woolen jewelry from Felted Pleasure Berlin
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icebreaker clothing: sustainable merino wool

Ice Breaker clothing New Zealand proves that wool can be worn in warm weather. They have released a new line of “ultra-fine” merino wool T-shirts and they offer an entire range of men’s and women’s summer clothing. Merino wool is a sustainable material, and Icebreaker is launching a garment traceability program called BAACODE that will allow consumers access to the company’s sustainable and ethical practices through-out their entire supply chain. BAACODE will also track individual garments back to the New Zealand merino station where the wool was procured. You've gotta love Icebreakers ad campaigns too!

rug rag: thick flotaki wool rugs

Handmade with heavy dense New Zealand Wool, in a wide array of sizes, shapes, colors and and designs. Rug Rags

fancy tiger's annual holiday handmade crafts 2009

Last weekend, I snuck down to Denver to enjoy Fancy Tiger's annual local Holiday Handmade craft bash. With such an amazing slew of talented makers, it was a real treat! Several topped the list, they are:
Mukee Design, they take recycled skateboard decks, turning them into jewelry and totally hip belt buckles.
The Kansas City Kitty girls were totally amazing, Christie is the artist who makes the adorable faux fur Friendly Monsters.
Lindsay at Earthlings Pet Care had a great selection of handmade pet toys and accessories.
Rachel of Affinitas Apothecary (affinitasapothecary@gmail.com) blends luxurious salves, tub teas and other herbal delights-her training includes Western as well as Ayurvedic medicine. One item that made me more curious was tumeric infused honey. Whoa.
Knitty Knitty Bang Bang is a cute company making knit scarfs for dogs and kitties.
All Good Wishes is Heide Murray's company, luckily I have taken one of her felting classes-she is so gracious to share her super talent. She is a pro needle felter, offering kits for making some of her designs.
& Kiwi & Company knits superb handbags
This year Holiday Handmade was was held in the beautiful
South Broadway Christian Church with gorgeous floral stained glass windows, soon to be refurbished pipe organ and wonderfully hospitable Pastor Mark.

Lest I forget, one of the highlights was sweet treats by Sugar Bakeshop If you missed it this year--don't miss it next!

stewart & brown: winter giveway!

Stewart & Brown, a lovely fashion label based in Ventura California is the brainchild of Karen Stewart & Howard Brown, partners in life and work. They launched their ethical fashion brand in 2002 in L.A., determined to pioneer the sustainable fashion movement. Both Stewart and Brown bring a high level of creativity to the collection every season. Karen, a trained painter and New York native, and Howard, a graphic artist and Montana native, oversee every aspect of the product and brand themselves.

Stewart+Brown designs offer the highest quality and functional style while remaining sustainable. The company donates a minimum of 1% all sales to non-profit, non-governmental environmental and social welfare organizations.

For all you readers, Stewart&Brown is hosting a giveaway this week for this gorgeous Hilda Cap-orchid colored merino wool hat. With a chunky knit, this fair trade gem will make you the adorable envy in the cold snowy days to come. To win, please leave a haiku about cold/wintry weather in the comments. Do not forget to leave your email (ideally in non hypertext link format), so that I can retrieve your mailing address for Stewart&Brown to send Hilda to the winner. Winner announced Sat, Nov 7. (5,7,5 syllable poem)

morgan wills: recycled wool

Morgan Wills has a boutique label in Seddon Australia. She focuses on crafting unique eco friendly products with bold colors.
The Cast offs range is made from 100% recycled wool, vintage fabric or designer off cuts. She often uses linen tea towels and tablecloths in her creations.

recycled sweater hand puppets: cate & levi

Cate & Levi have added new line of recycled wool hand puppets to their range of recycled wool stuffed animals. I adore the walrus version.

agua: recycled cashmere for children

Trash-à-porter has a new Agua line for children that I love! The recycled cashmere line for babies is available at ABC Home, online at NY DesignRoom, at Smoochiebaby in Brooklyn & LMNOP Chicago.

blankety blank blank: you guessed it, blankets

Recycled cashmere poncho, um....yes please. Find one at BBB.

haute felt: dress up

Curly Lulu creates the most wonderful crowns for a round of 'pretend' or maybe 100 of them.

sarah applebaum: knit art

Sarah Applebaum's art installations are a luscious otherworldly combination between rainbow brite and crafty grandma. Knit art and crochet are very approachable, I just want to lounge in them.

haute felt jewelry: vk

Vilte Kazlauskaite, a felter from Lithuania, makes eco-friendly fashion, interior accessories and clothing from felt. ❤

knit crochetdermy

Sorry for the long delay of posts, vacation gets addictive. Thought you might like some Crochetdermy!

children's sweaters: recycled wool

RHS

recycled wool pig

Viola Studio