Category: Studio stuff

  • Coming along ….

    New shop space is coming along very nicely … in case you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m moving my shop into our studio. The perfect spot opened up beside us so we banged through a wall and have moved over a bit! Here’s the progress so far. I’ll be sure to post…

  • Scrap Busting

    One of the many perks of sewing frocks for Bamboletta is the large assortment of fabric scraps that accumulate. I despise waste so am very frugal with cutting but no matter how I try there are always odd shaped bits and ends that just won’t work. So I save them… ALL of them … and…

  • Studio Style

    Hello Friday Friends! This weeks style blog has been brought to you by the gorgeous Shauna who (admittedly) did me a solid by taking the photos and organizing it this week. I’m loving how this segment is becoming more of a studio effort and hats off to ‘ma girl’ for her good eye and iphone…

  • Studio Style

    Hello Friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful week 🙂 It’s been busy as always in the studio. We finally got to introduce our newest member of the Bamboletta Doll family, our ‘Sitting Friends’ in todays doll upload and Christina has been working the Granville Island market since yesterday (we miss you!) and is having a blast…

  • Studio Style

    Happy Friday everyone! I hope you all had an amazing week this week! We’ve had a busy week as always at Whippletree. There’s been many a round table discussion about our soon-to-be launched new ‘Sitting Dolls‘!! Lots of perfecting and testing and stuffing and unstuffing. The end result dolls are looking absolutely gorgeous and are just so huggable and…

  • Sitting Doll Progression …

    We’ve been working away at these new sitting style dolls, that I think I’ll call Sitting Dolls because we are calling them that around the shop. It’s been about 5 weeks that Sam and I have been working on patterns and trying different things. We really want to get the proportion right and then worked…