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Environmentally friendly, sustainable & pretty
In the last post I promised to give a behind-the-scenes look at how wooden stitch markers are made, but I got a bit ahead of myself. I simply left out an important step, which is how it came about in the first place.
I have explained in detail the philosophy behind the wooden stitch markers, i.e. my ambition to make not only pretty, but also environmentally friendly and sustainable products. And that brings us to the step it took to make this dream come true: I bought a laser cutter.
It was a huge investment, but necessary to give me the creative freedom I crave for. However, there are other reasons. One of these reasons is, as mentioned above, to make environmentally friendly and sustainable products. Another reason is the aspiration I have with regard to Atelier Marie-Lucienne, namely: to offer unique products. I have this ambition with regard to my entire product range, i.e. hand-dyed wool as well as crochet (whether tutorials, kits or finished crochet pieces). The stitch markers (as beautiful as they are) have been a bit out of the picture there too.
Although I have always tried hard to find fancy stitch markers, they are still not really unique and often I have to compromise. Now, however, I can make stitch markers exactly how I imagine them and how I want them to be. On top of that, I have the whole process in my hands, from design to finished product, and in the end I can proudly say: "Mine!"
Being an indie business and being jack of all trades (i.e. from manufacturing to shipping, from product photography to accounting, from marketing to inventory management, etc., I do it all myself), I've managed to get a few capable people on board. These amazing artists have either kindly shared some of their designs with me, or have designed a few things especially for me. I will introduce them in a later post.
That's it for today though. In the next blog post I'll show - as promised - how to make wooden stitch markers.