Sisters stitch together.

Patterning, sampling, patterning, sampling, grading, cutting, snipping, piecing, stitching, pressing, stitching, piecing, pressing, stitching, snipping, stitching, pressing, piecing, stitching, pressing.

Making is chaotic, progressive, repetitive, inevitable and essential in the process of creating any thing.

The definitive thing materialises from logically disorderly beginnings. Making beauty isn't typically beautiful. I’m hard pressed to think of any thing coming into being without firstly having to ramble across a few complex terrains, scramble over a few molehills... pins and needles.

Making our way along the same paths, over and over, again and again, makes each undertaking a little more familiar, more knowable. Though not less demanding.

And it’s comforting that within this pace and pattern, whilst we're immersed in the snip snip stroke of scissors and the beat beat stitch of the sewing machine, we discover space within the whirring and find small moments to adjust, tweak and improve.

It’s really only in thinking about this that I realise it is what happens.

It was watching the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi that made me think of our own making process.

“I do the same thing over and over, improving bit by bit,” says 85 year old Jiro Ono, sushi shokunin (artisan) who has been practicing his craft for more than 60 years.

Daunting... yet strangely comforting.

Early days for us yet. Back to the stitching hearth.

 

*We started an Instagram tag #sisterstitchtogether to snap a few of these relentless moments in our making process that, in the grand scheme of things, will make a long lasting difference. Join us :)

 - R

Back to the future.

Taadaa! We’re in the future!

It really wasn't that long ago we were watching sci-fi films set in the apocalyptic landscape of 2013 where the future is overrun by gnarly humans with big guns and leathery wardrobes. In fact in 2013, we dress like we’re in 1985 - or was it 1995?

Is 2013 really looking like Escape from LA? Or are we Back to the Future II (2015) cut-off and stonewashed, denim-ised and over-sized? Not too far-fetched if we’re on the right Tank Girl (2033) trajectory. However, as our future continues on its increasingly synthesised and complex path, we may just reach The Fifth Element and be glad to have sharply reconstructed wardrobes by Jean Paul Gaultier to take us all the way to the year 2263.

But here we are.
And here’s a sneak peek of our very near future - Autumn Winter 2013.

Coming soon x

Seeing spots.

There are polka-dots... and there are spots. And dots by any other name would not be spots.

Circles, discs, hoops really don’t quite hit the spot.

For the love of this truly splendid shape, we unleash a stampede of spotty sunday bests this Spring.

Our spots are printed on a truly divine, light natural linen fabric that we’ve unrolled (selfishly delightfully :) into one of our favourite dress designs - Love among the ruins

...and into the wily ways of a double-collared wrap top-jacket - Once over

...and in a fit of dottiness, we wear the spotty wrap top-jacket upside down.

Go back for seconds.

When something is GOOD, we simply want it again… and again :)

In-store this week, we go back for seconds.

In The Second Person - Cape Dress getting stretchier and cleverer.

Second Edition - Cape Top refined and republished.

…and a little more still to come.

Writer’s Block

"Easy reading is damn hard writing,” stunningly said by 19th Century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.

His philosophy certainly applies to many forms of creativity - design, architecture, music composition, story-writing, cooking... and the list goes on.

It is often the designs and creations that are seemingly simple, unassuming, understated but with a strong sense of completion that have travelled the most complex and tumultuous paths to reach their final destination. Immeasurable amounts of time, thought and energy spent testing and refining each piece to arrive at a place it is meant to be is certainly a lifelong pursuit.

We’ve certainly chosen our path - indeed we persist!

It is inevitable that, every so often, we face writer’s block.

Months and months ago when we were designing our Spring Summer range of clothing, we were struggling with Writer's Block but discovered the very thing that impeded us was the same thing to inspire us. Sounds simple enough, but not at the time!

Drawing on some of our favourite tales and genres like existential sci-fi *and making up some in the process, we continue to create characters and stories to wear, like -

Not My Boyfriend's Jacket an oversized and maverick jacket

On the flipside a bold and brass crop pant

Miss Mary Mack sans buttons down the back, but a zipper to unfold you

Behind the sun a top for simple navigation

Now Playing no time like now skirt, pronto!

The Lorax a bold and telling dress

Beneath the moon a dress trajectory into the future and beyond

And these are just the first few of a cast of clear-cut fabrications of our Spring Summer collection Writer’s Block. They’re in-store now for you to encounter, and for them to meet their destiny...

Stay tuned for the next instalment.

~ Thank you again to Nadine Barry for being our fantastically true to life model xxx

The devil is in the details.

Autumn harvest is well under way.

The fruits of our labour freshly picked, stalks trimmed, produce well-packaged and ready to take to market! Without a doubt the madness’s in the method, the devil’s in the the details - the smallest feature makes the biggest difference in growing good-looking, good tasting goodness :)


Beautiful ingredients, better produce.

Extra stitching, better preserve.

Clean and trim, no loose ends.

     

Wrap up, too good to eat :)

*Thank you to the wonderfully cloudy Kylie Johnson for being our sweetly silver lining for this season's produce xxx

And as 'Sure as rain’, our harvest continues...

  - A