This is a wool snood(a scarf with no ends) I hand knitted for my brother. There is a twist in the loop so it looks nice even when it’s worn randomly. It has a tubular structure and has been knitted with a pattern which gives extra thickness. There is a simple cable pattern going through the whole snood.

I’m late but happy Halloween. Here is my Wednesday Addams inspired costume. I fell in love with her after seeing her in the musical. Also, I wanted a reason to wear black and white striped tights for quite a while. Finally!
The dress is made of green silk velvet and has side seam pockets. The buttons are covered with black silk dupion. The pointy collar is a separate piece made of white silk dupion and trimmed with cream crocheted silk lace. I used tiny snap fasteners for a clean look.

I bought some this exciting fabric strip in red with funfair token pattern a while a go and wanted to do something with it. It’s from a lovely haberdashery shop called Beyond Fabrics in East London. I made an oversized top with star patterened fabric in baby blue and used the strip to make the halterneck straps to tie behind the neck. I also made a bracelet with the leftover. I love the idea of funfair, circus, burlesque, hippie and so on. I am too serious a person to actually be involved in their world but I am fascinated by the utopian/distopian notion they have.

My brother is opening his book/handicraft shop in Tokyo and I have been commissioned to make a few things for the shop. His shop is called “Entrebox”, a word made up by him combining “Entreprenuer” and “box”. The shop stocks mainly secondhand books related to starting up your own business. Also there are some shelves(divided into squares=boxes) which designer-makers can rent to sell their work. And of course I have my own section to showcase my work!

This is the apron for the staff. It’s only my brother at this moment but the one I’m wearing here is a smaller size which I’ve made for the future when he hires a cute girl. It’s made of heavy cotton drill in blue grey. Big pockets at the front, chest pocket, adjustable neck and waist ribbons.

The neck is adjustable by letting the ribbon go through the loop at one side and making a knot. The chest pocket is in the shape of the logo of the shop, a box with the shop name. You can acutally use it as if putting something in the box.

The shop name is hand embroidered. It is in Japanese but it says “Entrebox”.

This is the open/closed sign for the door. It is made of cotton fabric and grey herringbone ribbon to hang.
On the left of the words are two pockets with arrow-shaped cutouts. You can change the sign by moving the grey card from one pocket to another like this!

close up of the sign, hand embroidered “open” and “closed”

The back side of this sign says “break time” in Japanese for my brother’s toilet/lunch break.

This is a tissue box case for the shop. You never know what will make a shop special… This case is almost like origami but with cutout for the tissue of course and covered buttons for the lid section. I have also embroidered “tissue box” in Japanese because it goes well with the shop name “Entrebox”.