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A few weeks ago, I was talking to Barbara deJounge, telling her how those felted wool jackets she had made for us just flew out the door. While I know that her main focus now is designing new styles for her sweater line, I knew I just had to plead for some more of those fabulous jackets......
Soooooooo.....Barbara......... how about you making us some felted wool jackets that can come at the same time as your spring sweater collection????? Then we can have a late January newsletter that can be "All About Barbara”?????
VOILA!!! .....and it was no easy feat......
In the middle of producing our new pieces with all of their whimsical details, a TORNADO struck Barbara's home at the beach......the wind BLEW, the glass buckled, the glass broke, the wind and rain rushed in.......and after it was all cleaned up, she just kept right on working!!!!!
Here is our collection of "Tornado Jackets"........
Since our bright yellow dot jacket was gone before we even took photos of it for our last newsletter, we decided to do some more yellow. We have this fresh, bright, happy shade three ways....with the silly pokey-outy black protrusions, with the subtle asymmetric swirl of small black dots (this is also pretty wonderful in charcoal with white dots!) or the original dots (not shown). This is the perfect coat to be wearing when it is cold and icky outdoors! Everyone will be forced to smile just looking at you.....
The first piece out of the box was charcoal gray with green and purple and orange dots......I was in love..... But then I just kept falling in love again as the next piece came out.....
I called our first charcoal coat with the red accents the "chili pepper coat" because it looked like chili peppers were trying their best to escape from the wool. We just had to have that back again, with its more subtle friend with the black accents.
GREAT STUFF, no?????
....and then....the SWEATERS!!!!!!!
Can you stand the burst of COLOR?????
All of Barbara's sweaters are one-size-fits-whomever, so we can have a lot of fun buying one of this and one of that and having a great variety with which to tempt you.....
The three zipper sweater comes in the most colors.....red, purple, green, hot pink, and black. The third zipper is in the back, because we like to have detail interest as we are leaving the room too....
The new double zip sweater is charcoal gray with dramatic red and black zippers running diagonally down the front and back, and on the zip on-off pocket. AND....how great are the openings at the shoulder and elbows.....perfect for a red or black tee-shirt (or skin) to peek through!!!
How fresh are these black and white stripes with the jaunty red trim??? This cotton sweater comes in both regular and cropped lengths.
The last of the cotton sweaters is the "fancy knit" with all different textures reminiscent of that fancy Italian designer......? This sweater is a lovely light weight.....available in black as well as purple, chartreuse, and fuchsia.
Our last two items are knit in 100-percent linen yarns........
We love the pins and we love the zippers......and number three in the love department appears as the "hook and eye" sweater. Tape with big silver hooks and eyes runs diagonally down both the front and the back of this sophisticated sweater and also appears as trim on the pocket.
Our asymmetric jumper is a winner!!! We sold this item out twice in the light-weight winter wool, and we were really pleased to see it translated into a light weight for spring. Layer this over a cute pant and a great tee or woven shirt.....
.....and this is why, along with a million other reasons, that we LOVE Barbara deJounge!!!!!!
While this newsletter IS "all about Barbara", we did use some of our more whimsical accessories to add even more color....necklaces from Ana Livingston and Stickball and Teresa Goodall and Oska.......pins from Gabrielle Gould and Stickball and Glitterlimes and Jewelry 10.
Does it feel like spring yet...?
Big hugs to all of you!
kati
415.362.3437
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