More ponchos for this fall!

Time to name my creations! I didn’t realized how difficult and important is to name my products !

In which language (spanish: my mother tongue, english: the universal language, or french: the country I live in) should I do it? Why? What’s the inspiration? and the meaning? Long hours going in circles trying to recover my creativity from the bottom of my ‘cerveaux’ (brain)…

So, now I have a beautiful popurri to show you, but as I don’t want to be boring… I will just start with these two new versions of my creations:

First this poncho.
I considered the “stripes” made in different fibers as a “path, way” and finally I arrived to “route” but as I think is not a teluric and normal poncho, I wanted something as “alternative” and I came to name it “the diverted route“.

In the fall/winter version colors are darker…

The following is the third version of the granny style poncho, this time I used a teal angora/wool fiber to lighten it up. In order to the name I imagined it on a gril walking through the mist and as it’s look is very “filmy” I called it “floating in the mist”…

Hope you like them and you can see more photos in my shops or my facebook page

Rustic body, soft in essence

Today I’ll show you two finished products…

One of them is a revisited poncho of this one but in pastels colors and not fringes.  You’ll tell me which version you prefer. Both of them are made with the same motif and concept rustic wool as the main ones and softer delicate ones in the interior…

  

And followinf with the rustic concept and suave feeling I’m going to show you this scarf I made for a friend that has helped us a lot since we are in France, so Benoît is the new owner of this echarpe that I see more and more as a disctintive piece in my shops and a unisex option with a lot of personality.

Another poncho made to order

I’m loving more and more doing special orders…. first because they are all customers coming back, and afterwrads because they know what they want…

I worked with cotton and fantasy yarns, and even cotton seems to be more for summer, this in particular gave me all the sensation of being in winter (and also the weather in Paris, but this is another story…)

So if you are fancy a beautiful and original garment you know that you can have your original one… it took me 10 days to have the yarns, knitting it and sell it…

Such a good week!

This week I haven’t written so much and this is a sign that I have worked a lot, it’s true, I did.

This poncho is the last one I have done and I can tell you they are very successful… due this is the only one I have in stock! yes! thanks to a beautiful client who bought it at my Dawanda Shop so now the poncho is travelling to Germany!!

I’m discovering the great experience of designing something and making it in lots of colors… it is never the same and a simple change can be turned into an absolutely different style. I have found this essential to make something more practical in my collections without loosing the “one of a kind” touch.

more pictures in my facebook page

This week Eleni, from Mod3rnArt proposed me to publish photos of the space where I create, ok, we can call it studio… but it is such an small one!!! She featured it on her blog, surrounded by great creators all of them part of the Etsy community…

Finally and almost miraculously… I have been three times in the Etsy Frontpage!!! yey! such a warm sensation… so I have open a folder in my Flickr to save them and every time I feel blue I can realize there are people who like my creations

A funky poncho

I loved the idea of making a collection of ponchos with different styles for this summer and once I had them finished I realized that it can be a good garment for any season… it depends with what other clothes you combine it…
So this is made in a vivid pink cotton that reminds me a “framboise ice-cream” and I mixed it with other fibers, I think is really trendy… isn’t it?

more pictures in my facebook page

A custom poncho

This is the first time I make something to order and in a virtual way… and I have to say I’m overwhelmed with the experience!

A client who bought a bag from my shop at Dawanda last year ordered this poncho she saw I had sold out two months ago.

It was great not only because I love when a client come back, but also I love when they know what they want.

So… I bought the yarns and they arrived really fast from England. I started to work after she approved the colors (I sent two options and she could choose) and she decided the palest ones (I agree this is a beautiful combination…) pale green cotton, lilac ribbon bamboo and a crazy yarn full of texture and colors… lovely!

So, here it is… and now the poncho is going to live in Austria… thanks to this kind customer

Mini poncho granny style

Finally I get finished the mini poncho, and although I intended to make a Shawl at first, I found a lot more fun and young, a poncho for spring with such a vivid colors!

It is made with pure cotton (green kaki) and macramé yarn (red coral) in crochet with very fine needles.
Hope you like it!

Waiting for the sun…

As I make several projects at the same time, I try to share my energy and if I’m doing something that requires all my attention, the other one it might be something relaxed… 

Meanwhile I was working in my handwoven scarf, I decided to make a poncho, very fun in colours and in the process. It’s simply knitted but all the fun is in colours combinations…

The material I used was pure cotton in a pale green and I combined it with lilac ribbon and a crazy and very colorful yarn, that goes really nice with the two others…

Treasuries in Etsy

As some people know, I have an Etsy shop I’ve set up some years ago, but recently I’ve  seriously  started trying to push my  sells  … One of the most important things I’ve learnt is to participate actively in all the promotion process, so one of my suggestions is to sign up in the groups you think are representative for you.

As an example I’m actually in Etsy in Spanish (my mother tongue), Etsy Fast (fiber arts) and European Etsy teams (I live in Paris)…so, these are so far the ones I have chosen but I’ll continue searching for other opportunities…

One of the Etsy in Spanish’s conditions is to make a “Treasury” from the members of the group, so I’ve chosen as favorites most of the ones I like and I’m waiting to properly publish it, which is kind of a “mission impossible” because the section “Treasury” is always packed. 

Amazingly I found myself  in one of them, and I was absoultely delighted to see one of my products in there, it’s a pitty that this poncho I’ve sold it in another website, but at least is good for promotion, contacts and future results… isn’t it?

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It’s been a long time without writing and promoting… It’s really hard to create and do the sales efforts at the same time… but here we are…
I’m going to show and explain some of the last creations I made…
This is one of my favourites ones… I love to create putting parts together… in this case the squares inspired me to make a poncho, very “granny style” but easily wearable with jeans, dresses and whatever you have in mind…
The materials are a very rustic wool from England and a merinos blend from Argentina… voila!
Find it in Etsy: www.anasousa.etsy.com
Dawanda: http://en.dawanda.com/shop/anasousa