Elisabethan

A couple of sweaters I am finally finishing, now in my new studio in Needham, MA! Grey sweater is cashmere with pieced cashmere cadbury extensions. Purple is merino wool with cashmere & merino pieced cadbury extensions. Front pouch pocket. Fun to be using some of my small scraps- I love those beautiful colorful bits!
I hope to share them at JP Open Studios this weekend… if the weather is friendly enough… fingers double crossed! 🤞🏽🤞🏽 🤞🏽🤞🏽

Say hey to our next JP Open Studios 2026 Artist Highlight, Elisabeth Delehaunty @elisabethanco ! Elisabeth will be bringing her fantastic fibers and fabrics to 51 Rockview Street, so make sure to give her a visit! "This is my first time participating in JPOS! I'm new to the Boston area, having moved back to my home state of Massachusetts in 2023, and Hyde Park in 2025. I learned my craft mostly thanks to some amazing women: costume designers, women with sewing businesses, my mom. I love color play, hate waste. I started Elisabethan in 1996 using mostly vintage fabrics, but my growing awareness of the mountains of unwanted secondhand clothing made me want to work with this potential resource: it needed to be recycled. Now I mostly use secondhand cotton t-shirts, cashmere & wool sweaters as "yardage" . I design and make all of my patterns & strive for surprising & playful combinations thru piecing, applique, & sometimes dyeing. Tops, skirts, dresses, accessories. Recycling is central to my work. My design inspiration comes from the challenge to find raw materials in the sea of STUFF that surrounds all of us; to make something new that isn't MORE; to take the unwanted and make it into the “must-have.”

This weekend in JP - rain or shine - excited to space at 51 Rockview with Kanch By Kolika!

Plenty of color UNDER the tent at Fruitlands! Come see the work of 60(?) talents artists & makers And the view is still amazing
Craft Fair goes till 4 today! 🌈

Fruitlands Museum Craft Fair THIS weekend, Sept 19-20… I’ll be there, I think you should too!

We are apparently in for some big rain today, so no SoWa Open Market - I was not looking forward to drying my inventory afterwards for a third week! 😅

I AM looking forward to Fruitlands Craft Festival next weekend in Harvard, MA! 🦊

And to some more packing today at the studio- moving day is Sept 15! Want a quick peek at the new space? I was there measuring yesterday…

This morning’s flowers… (ok, yesterday’s but WOW) How do they get hydrangea to grow in THAT color? Summer is still showing off! Hope the day is kind to you 😻

SoWa OPEN MARKET this Sunday, Sept 6
11am to 5pm
Elisabethan is in the main section, Booth 52.
Looks like lovely weather to be out & about and I’ve got a mini collection of new, Boston-themed Go Betty Tees to share 😻

Yay!

Thank you, Devin, for the impromptu modeling!



SoWa Boston Centre