OTTOBRE à Paris

Le Salon Créations et savoir-faire aura lieu du 19 au 23 novembre 2014 à Paris expo, Porte de Versailles. Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer que, pour la toute première fois, nous y serons. Vous nous retrouverez sur le stand G 106 avec nos amis de chez Lillestoff, éditeur de tissus bios aux superbes motifs. 

Vous pourriez vous abonner au magazine, rencontrer notre traductrice, feuilleter et acheter les numéros déjà parus en français, découvrir notre nouveaux magazine hiver 6/2014 puis vous laisser tenter par les jerseys et molletons bios aux imprimés colorés.

Nous sommes impatients de vous y retrouver !

The French craft fair « Créations et savoir-faire » will be taking place from the 18th to the 23rd of November 2014 at the Paris Expo Park, Porte de Versailles, Paris.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the very first time we will be taking part. You’ll find us on stand G 106 with our friends from Lillestoff, suppliers of superb organic fabric with fun prints.

You’ll be able to subscribe to the magazine, meet our translator, leaf through and purchase back issues in French, check out our latest winter issue 6/2014 and allow yourselves to be tempted by the gorgeous colorful printed organic jerseys and sweat shirt fabrics.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Techno jersey

In our latest OTTOBRE woman magazine, autumn-winter 5/2014, we’ve used techno jersey for both dresses and pants. We love this modern knit because it’s really easy to work with and the finished garments look so good.

Techno jersey is a heavyweight interlock knit, it’s quite firm and bi-stretch (stretch/recovery 20%). The fabric we used for our designs weighs 373gr/m² and is a blend of viscose, polyamide and elastane. The viscose content makes it breathable so it’s ideal for sportswear; we chose to combine coral and ivory techno jersey for this cool and sporty dress. 

Pattern from OTTOBRE design 5/2014 in European sizes 34-52 

We used black techno jersey for the comfortable workout pants, it has just the right amount of stretch to allow free movement but will retain its shape – no baggy knees here! We added piping to the outer leg seams for a professional look.

Patterns from OTTOBRE design 5/2014 in European sizes 34-52

Techno jersey can also be made into an elegant and flattering dress. This deceptively simple vivid blue dress has a slight A-line cut. The firm quality of the jersey makes the dress very flattering, close fitting but not clingy. 

You’ll find techno jersey in our Etsy shop here.
There are four lovely colors:gray, ivory, orange and turquoise.
For more photos you can browse the 5/2014 OTTOBRE woman
magazine here and order single issues or subscribe to
the magazine via our website.

Hello, we’re back!

As you may have noticed we’ve been a bit absent over the last month or so. We’ve been very, very busy moving our sewing studio to our new home just next door and at the same time preparing our fantastic winter kids magazine (you can have a sneak peak here). Or go to our website to leaf thru the online edition.

Now that the magazine is winging its way to your letterboxes and news-stands and we have finally tidied away every last button and spool of thread in the studio we've planned a little catch-up time so over the next week we’ll be posting a few extras from the latest autumn kids issue and our most recent woman magazine before sharing some of the gorgeous photos we didn’t have room for in our new winter kids edition. Watch this space!

In the meantime here is a quick snap of our new studio where we are already starting work on our spring kids issue.

All assorted according to the colors. 

Here is our sewing machines, ribbings, scissors, threads and buttons. 

Our lovely trainees from Alsfeldt sewing school have been busy and
now our chairs have got new covers made of Marimekko fabrics.

We did not forgot our old friend.