Vintage toys as inspiration

These felt and embroidered houses are so sweet, someone has to make them.


This clown is creepy. Don't make this for a small child unless you want to give them nightmares.



Happy little lion. I'm definitely getting a lion vibe at the moment.
It's a bit too cliche, but Kingston loves them at the moment, so I might have to tweak and play to come up with a cool variant.



Every boy loves dinosaurs, and king is a little obsessed, his bed is covered with them. But I think this one would eat all the others and poop stuffing for a week, he's huuuuge!



I love how this kid is such a runner that not only is she wearing a harness, but that it has bells on it just in case she does escape.

xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

Vintage knitted toddler yumminess

Ooh, some sweet finds!
















Beautiful knitted lovelies. I'm just not a knitter though, too impatient with my turtle-esque skills.
If anyone wants these patterns, let me know and I'll send you a scan. Don't want them to go to waste!


xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

Autumn winter research

Just doing some more research and getting inspired for designing autumn/winter 2011. Since we'll be on leave over Xmas and early Jan, I thought I'd take that time to fully design and draw up any tee prints, since I'll be interstate and can't do patterns or toilles or sewing.
Looking through all my lovely vintage sewing and craft books (yay for a long history of op shopping and hoarding), and even pulling out some photos of family from my childhood. I'm just loving all daggy 70's stuff. Even yellow and brown. Which I normally loathe. What's happening to me?!
Loads of awesome pics to come as I muse over things and share some deliciously daggy delights that might inspire also.

xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

Inspiration pictures: what's fueling the fire right now

My pin board above is slowly being taken over by 70's funk. Yeah. Some more finds in random places that are slowly building up a picture or where we're heading next season. Gotta get the vibe going before I can really know what I'm designing.














Typography seems to be coming to the fore too, a lot of hand drawn letters around and bold use of classic fonts with an update rather than wacky fonts.


Old worn leather, with colour like waxed, weathered wood. Burnt orange and umber, sienna and bold yellow. While slick slate gray, black and powder soft blue temper the wild bursts of citrus.




















Homely stitching and macrame monogrammed matching chenille.


Cute hep cats in stripey skivvies.

What's inspiring you lately?

xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

I don't like thrifting, oh no. I love it!

Just a few patterns I've picked up this last week on my op shop journeys. I'm a bit in love with the seventies funk / dorky look at the moment. (thinking back to my youth of skivvies and brown cords!) so I'm definitely going to be trying out a few of these patterns over the holidays. See if I can adapt any of them and get some inspiration for the new winter line next year. No outright copies though- aside from being naughty, it's just plain lazy as a designer.





















Speaking of holidays, we'll be taking off December 18th through to the end of January (unless I get bored earlier), so highly unlikely that there'll be any shop updates during that time. I will blog and blather a lot though, as I'll spend the 'break' designing next season and working on patterns and such.
Ok, off to watch a roller derby grand final at the showgrounds, yeah! Toodles!

xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

50's colours

I get dragged around the block on a regular basis, and now spring has sprung it's lovely to see all the beautiful colours out. I'm loving all the 50's soft greens and the cream/off white paired with a dark chocolate, with hints of burgundy and a limey yellow. Perfect for spring!









xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

Selvedge inspiration

Cut these off when I was laying out Florida shorts, and they look so sweet, almost like bunting. It's always nice to see beauty in unusual places.



xCherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au

Cutest vintage boys knit ever

Cutest vintage boys knit ever, originally uploaded by cherry_rockette.

This is just too darn cute for words. And so is the puppy! I just love a zip up knit. Might see if I can work out a version for spring in a light weight cotton knit and a hood.

Xxx Cherry

Musings on spring

Musings on spring, originally uploaded by cherry_rockette.

Delicious creamy colours with splashes of blue, red and grey. Adding a few new items too.
Thinking about killer gorilla fez mummies.

Xxx Cherry

www.FuriousKingston.com.au