post Christmas selfish knitting :

rag wool tall socks

these things are crazy easy!

Alice Walker's apple galette recipe

newly relegated to the baby museum:

Emma's first tee 1988

Carnaby Street cords and red shoes that haven't had a day off in 19 years

after 20+ years of putting away doll things, i folded them for the last time, at least for now.

clothes made from production remnants and bits of left over trims, hats and sweaters and scarves knit from extra balls of yarn from the workroom, and blankets pieced together from knit downs and mock ups. things made by my seamstresses from scraps on their lunch breaks for Emma when she spent her days at my Sheridan Road studio; outfits made in the desperate evenings before Christmas. all quietly tucked away on a high shelf for another time.

Margaretville Mountain December 23

unearthed:

pajama bags made several years ago for Christmas

Ottie and Oti beehive on Ashlyn

Christmas cardis on Christmas eve

little gifts

Christmas baking

knitting in bed at the Hotel Shahibaugh

new merino deep v neck in the front yard leaf pile. last of the personal projects-on to Christmas knitting!

Dad and his words of wisdom regarding pumpkin growing

in the Press Democrat today

fall

farewell, summer.

some of the last projects done by the girls before going back to school :

little gnome houses made of things from the woods

and fabric wallets

Frances

Mary

Mary's Christmas sweater (2010) is finally finished. Hudson valley mohair and antique French flea market buttons.

enough wild blackberries this year for jam and two of these-Sam Sifton's blackberry cobbler recipe in the NY Times

the woods are EXPLODING with fungi!

a simple mock neck in chunky merino. i treated myself to a ready-made pattern; this one from Classic Knits by Erika Knight. picked as an easy project to make while traveling in India. highly impractical because of the bulky yarn and how much space it took up in my baggage, but so fun and quick to knit. finished on long walks here in Bovina.

Oti Co. makes it's debut tomorrow at the New York Gift Show. What began as an idea last Thanksgiving that was too difficult to explain, has grown into two collections : Ottie and Oti for children, and Auntie Oti for home.

both collections celebrate the handmade and the humble, often over looked items that are magical in their simplicity and integrity.

thank you to all that have helped this idea become reality. See you at the Javits!

namaste to the Bangalore crew:

hand beading and embroidery karigars

pattern master

machine embroiderers

Madhu and Karthi

Shruthi

Gowrishankar

Auntie Oti

purveying the everyday of India

New York Gift Show

August 13-17 Javits Center

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Ottie and Oti Spring 2012

for boys and girls

New York Gift Show

August 13-17 Javits Center

Baby and Child

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backseat taxi knitting, Bangalore

rhubarb pie

on the 4th of July

my first massed produced t shirt design- PS 372 3rd graders wore this for their field day.

tablecloth washing day

homemade Charlie Brown and Snoopy Easter eggs, inspired by a trip to the Charles M. Shultz museum in Santa Rosa.