Earth day 2024 at Chase Center

Come out to Chase center on April 21st for a fabulous celebration of Earth day! Organized by the fantastic Fantastic Negrito and Storefront music lable. There will be music, food trucks, and a variety of vendors specializing in sustainable design.

I will have my cashmere hats and scarves for sale, and will be sharing my passion of diverting textiles from landfill.

12-4pm, event is FREE to attend.

Pouch liners for rescued critters in Australia.

This video has the best information about fabrics and structure of the liners.
You can recycle 100% cotton T shirts!
Watch video here.

Join the Bay Area crafting group, and we can work on these together! I am receiving about 300 t shirts as a donation for this project from a local company!

Bay Area Project for Gaia and Australia

Making wildlife nests

There is a frenzy on Facebook with groups forming to create all kinds of craft items to help critters in Australia.
One of the items being created is a crochet nest for birds and small rodents.
So many people are using acrylic or acrylic blend yarrn, which may be acceptable but is certainly counter productive in the long run.

There are a million reasons to use 100% wool for the nests. I know there is a lot of conflicting info. out there, but please use 100% wool.
WIRES is the bird/critter rescue in Australia, and they need cotton or wool nests. Wool is compost able, it helps plants grow. Wool is bio degradable. Wool is a natural fiber, best for critters. Please don’t use blends, just 100% wool
Australia desperately needs our help, but they also don’t need thousands of acrylic nests that will never degrade and add to a huge landfill issue. Wool is non toxic and when composted, will actually help rebuild their eco system.
PLEASE USE WOOL.
I love you all.
WIRES, Australian wildlife rescue info for nests.

Solstice to Equinox

“Solstice to Equinox”, out of the darkness into the light, starts today!
From December 21st. (Winter Solstice) to March 19th, 2020 (Spring Equinox) I will be creating structured hats, especially ones made out of recycled Cashmere, and posting pics once a week.
Part of the The 100 day Project.

Holiday shopping

Come out and support local designers. My Cashmere collection is eco friendly and a great way to enjoy the finest fiber on the planet.

Cashmere, Fall/Winter 2017

The Cashmere sweaters are starting to arrive. I could not be happier with my new supplier. I have received over 100 sweaters, so the Cashmere hat and scarf production is moving full speed ahead. Check out some of the steps of how I go through the process.

I love not knowing what colors will arrive. It’s like Christmas every time a box of sweaters is delivered.

It’s always fun at the laundromat. People stare at the piles of sweaters I put through the washer and drier. I often get asked “Do you wear all of these sweaters?” . I also get a lot of concerned folks asking “are you sure you want to put those in the drier? They will shrink!”

The chopping begins. I cut the sweaters apart, remove the ribbing, buttons, zippers. Every little piece of cashmere is saved and reused. I tend to work in color blocks, so one day it will be chopping red sweaters, another day it will be the green ones, and so on. My biggest stack tends to be the 50 shades of Gray!

At times, a sweater will look like Swiss cheese from the hungry moths. It’s OK, there is still so much usable material to work with, it just takes more time cutting it all apart. It is also much easier to see the holes once the sweater goes through the washer and drier and felts. Each piece then gets inspected. If there are this many holes in any particular sweater, i turn it into scrap pieces…

That damaged and useless sweater is turned into beautiful felted Cashmere strips which I sew into hats and scarves.

My tiny showroom is quickly filling up with the Cashmere collection! It is so gratifying to recycle this luxurious fiber. There are days where I chop the sweaters for 12 hours. There are days when I sew for 14 hours. Doing this is a labor of love, and I love every minute of it.

Workshop at Britex fabrics.

I will be teaching a workshop at Britex Fabrics on Saturday, August 5th.
Scraps to Embellishments , how to create decorative elements from leftover material. Headbands, flowers, leaves, couching method. This class is great for both beginners and intermediate sewers.

Five and Diamond Holiday Loft sale

I will be selling my Cashmere hats and scarves at the Five and Diamond Holiday Loft sale at the Chapel.

The Chapel, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco.
Sunday, December 18th, 11-6

Free to attend, cocktails and food available at the venue.

New hat showroom!

I am so excited about opening a new showroom/design studio in the Mission. I just can’t seem to leave my favorite neighborhood. The showroom will be open by appointment, and I plan on having regular open studio days. If you would like to make an appointment, please e mail me: elinadavenport@gmail.com

Elina Davenport – Elinary

3012-16th St. Suite 101

San Francisco CA 94103

The showroom is located in a building right across the street from 16 th and Mission BART station. 14, 33, 22, 55 bus lines all stop right by the building. Metered parking on the street and Hoff St. garage half a block away.

 

SF Etsy indie holiday emporium

I will be selling my Cashmere hats and scarves at the SF Etsy indie holiday emporium!

Saturday November 28th and Sunday November 29th. 11-5, FREE to attend and parking available.
Pier 35 in San Francisco.
Shop local!
https://www.facebook.com/events/143629982648495/