BabyLegs Fall 13 Now Available

My collection for BabyLegs is now available for wholesale.  I'm really proud of this collection.  It's the first collection I've ever designed completely on my own.  I only had minimal oversite from the owner of the company on my designs, and felt I had full creative freedom to design whatever I wanted.  At previous jobs, I always felt I had to make changes to designs that made them worse, or that my best designs were not accepted for development.  But I always wondered, was my boss right, or was I?  If I was given the freedom, would I do a terrible job?  I have to say, with this collection, I really impressed myself.  I can't believe how great my designs are.

I've always loved interesting knitwear and beautiful patterns and colors.  I was able to pull all of my loves together into a wonderful collection.  For inspiration, I did a big shopping trip and about lots of beautiful samples at the University Place mall-- an upscale shopping center here in Seattle with some really beautiful kids shops.  Hannah Andersson is a big inspiration-- they had some amazing tights that totally inspired me.  I also looked a lot at the trends from StyleSight, although many of them were too dark for BabyLegs.  I used them as guidelines, but brightened them considerably.  I also looked a lot at Print & Pattern, my favorite source for inspiration.

I will share more images from the collection when they become available for sale on the BabyLegs website in August.  If you would like to buy wholesale and see the wholesale catalog now, shoot me an email or contact the BabyLegs sales team http://www.babylegs.com/ or info [at] babylegs.com

Best drawing I ever did

I drew this illustration for my husband for Valentines Day.  It came to me in a dream several weeks before Valentines Day.  A few days before, a friend suggested we make Valentines at ladies craft night, and pulled out blank cards and markers.  I was so happy to be given the opportunity to literally make my dream a reality.

This illustration perfectly captures my relationship.  I'm the octopus, because I'm snuggly to the point of being an octopus with a million arms coming from every direction.  My hubby is not snuggly, to the point of being robotic.  But look how nicely we go together.  And then our little cat, who snuggles sometimes, but is usual grumpy.  It's our perfect little family.  This illustration makes me happy every time I look at it.  When I first drew it, I got teary eyed.  It's an inspiration to me, to try to make every piece of work this good.

I perfectly captured the emotion I was going for-- you can easily see how happy we are together, but that it's a little awkward, fitting two disparate characters together.  Also, the movement and composition is excellent.  As my husband said, "It shouldn't work, but it does."  What he meant was, there's no weak point in the composition.

BabyLegs wins National Parenting Publications Awards!

 
Congratulations to BabyLegs for winning a Gold for our ByeByeBugs collection (light weight mesh legwarmers treated with bug repellent) and a Silver for our BabyCool collection (light weight mesh legwarmers treated with sun block) from the National Parenting Publications Awards.  I can't take a lot of credit here, because these collections were designed right before I started designing for BabyLegs.  I did take over development, and make some edits to the designs and worksheets to achieve quality production, better color, and a nice overall layout of the designs.  Here are the ones I did the most work on:




Here are two I did design, from our regular line.  And, they're best sellers!


 
I completely designed the Fall 13 line, which will be out soon.  I'm especially excited about out Back To School collection.  I can't wait to share it!