How quickly time flies. Our busy season is about to begin and I'm not sure I actually felt a summer slowdown! As I write this, the Studio is quiet, with everyone taking some much needed time off. It had been very busy up until now preparing fall shows and orders beginning with the San Francisco American Craft Council show and Evanston Craft Show this month.
Aside from the normal garment design and consruction work, we have spent the summer reorganizing the presentation of our work and think you will find it easier to understand and access our knits. Instead of new collections each year (with creative names that none of us can remember!) and individually named garments within the collections, we'll have five on-going collections of knits named for the types of knits that we do...Elements, Milano, Graphics, Textures, and One-of-a-kinds. New designs and colors will be added on a regular basis and featured here on the blog. The most popular designs become our "classics" and remain available over the years. For information about our existing classic styles in any/all of the six groups, contact us for photo/price sheets.
We have found that the best way to see and experience the quality and fit, of our knits is in person at a show or at a gallery, and hope that is possible for you to do. However, we do a lot of mailing and accept returns if it doesn't work.
The new Graphic designs featured here are based on the photos taken during a leisurely walk along my favorite Lake Michigan beach by my family cottage. They are done in soft, lightweight fabrics and feature raised, linear patterns found at the waters edge and in the dune foliage. New colors this fall are Coffee and Raisin and I think these designs are wonderful using them!
These designs are available now. Email us at office@christriola.com
