upcoming: gothic gardens!

Ha! Patterns will be back with a vengeance...Here's a sneak peek at some of the new items that feature this *amazing* pattern which reminds me of a stylized gothic garden design. I scored several yards of uncut vintage jersey from the 60s (or 70s?) in this amazing print and will be making tops out of it. There's very little of it, so you can be assured that when these go up for sale they will be in small production! It's a really unique-looking print and a real eye-popper. Plus, I'll be selling the last of my "Florette" print tops (I got that particular fabric from a single giant vintage 70s shirt and it's finally been cut up into as many pieces as possible!). I'll be trying to post a new batch in the next few days, so check back or sign up for my mailing list...



Bonus for me: I bought about 20 yards of the grey speckle jersey fabric yesterday (I've been buying only small pieces of it, but found a motherlode of it--wow!). I get almost all my jersey fabrics from a place called SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts) which is a local nonprofit that takes donations from clothing manufacturers and resells uncut, unused, and unwanted fabric. Most of it are factory remnants or "rejected" dye lots (dyed fabric that doesn't exactly match a particular line of clothing). Hence, I get my greedy little hands on it, the fabric is technically "brand new" and would have otherwise wound up in the dumpster, and SCRAP gives all the $$ proceeds to San Francisco public schools. Win-win for all! I'm *super* anal about using recycled materials and buying from nonprofits, and SCRAP fits in with my groove...No more new crap! Think SCRAP!

BUT! because what I get are "scraps" (literally) it means that most of the time I can only make small amounts using a particular fabric, so when a pattern like this "gothic gardens" comes around, it won't last for long ;)