At home in the Pacific Northwest
I started on Etsy in 2011 making all of the Pendleton Wool handcrafted pillows, vintage camp stool, chair and cot covers and alterations for Indian vs Indian and Scout vs Scout. I then originally launched my own shop later that same year as Robin Cottage, which was one of the original shops selling artisan-style handcrafted products made almost exclusively with Pendleton Wool blanket fabrics.
I am a 5th generation Oregonian and have spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest. I am the proud mother of a wonderful 15 year old young man named Evan, two dogs (Georgia and Lola) and two cats (Tux and Ollie). We live in an old house on a half-acre about a half hour from Portland, Oregon. I have an art and craft design studio on our property in a 1940s barn, where I do all of the sewing, packaging, photography and marketing for my online shop.
My background in landscape architecture for the past nearly 30 years (www.smithla.com) inspires a meticulous attention to detail, geometry, symmetry and proportion in all of my sewn creations here on Etsy.
Robin
