Lots of New Up Cycled Cashmere

Happy Fall friends!  

I've been busy whipping up delicious new cashmere goodies just in time for.... snow!  

Yes, it will make it's appearance this year, but you'll be prepared with a fluffy new sweater, or perhaps a scarf to cheer yourself up.  (truth be told... I pray to the snow Goddess, but don't blame me if we get buried:-)

Here are a few the offerings so far:

HATS FOR THE WEE ONES

Many more on the website

Girls 12 m. to 3T

Girls 12m to 5T

Girls 3T to 8yrs 

INFINITY & LONG SCARVES

Neutral and fabulous

Oranges and Peachy Colors

Reds!

SWEATERS - READY TO WEAR & SPECIAL ORDER

Sweater Salvation:Custom Order - send your damaged sweater for a fancy fix

Chartreuse!  Size Large

Luscious Periwinkle and Turquoise

Thank you for stopping by and I send you lovely snuggled-by-the-fireplace good vibes for the impending season.

Textile Waste No More - Buy Upcycled!

This infographic posted on Ecouterre is precisely why we do what we do, i.e. upcycle unloved t shirts into fabulous new goodies.  Have you seen the new tubes yet?

Waste Not

piles of t shirt strips = straps and necklaces at a later date

stack of sleeve = ruffles, posies and/or more strips

I am always excited when able to reduce waste of any kind.  We are making mosaics out of plastic container caps at our elementary school right now - awesome.  Southern Houston grocery stores are finally recycling plastic bags - whew.  I'm making necklaces out of frozen juice container caps - chic (hopefully!).
And today I decided to actually measure how little/or how much, depending on your half full/half empty perspective, fabric waste was leftover after cutting 8 t-shirt "T Bags".

This is all that remains of 8 unloved t-shirts that would have otherwise met their demise in a landfill or been shipped (at great environmental cost) to Africa for donation & resale.   Much of this small pile (scissors shown for scale) will be used as pillow and doll stuffing also.  I call that fantastic.