etaussi

Before I had my 2 beautiful girls, I ran a small children’s shop were we sold furniture, toys, clothing, wallpaper, etc. As much as I loved my shop, after my eldest daughter was born I couldn’t combine work and caring for her. I decided to leave the shop to my best friend en be a fulltime stay at home mom.
Four years later, after my youngest daughter turned 1, I started to want something for myself again. I decided to learn to crochet and with the help of YouTube I got the hang of it soon.
As I wanted to make something completely different then everybody else was making I started to experiment with the combination of fabric with crochet. I have always loved moving blankets, they are sturdy and tough and yet also very soft. And the fact that they are 100 % recycled made that I wanted to do something with them as well.
My first creation was Ellaine. I cut a moving blanket in half and crocheted an edge around it in white and three shades of grey, creating an ombre effect. I loved it, sitting on my couch or in the garden watching my girls play and crocheting.
The responses to my first blanket were great and the idea started to form in my head that this could be a business.
I made some more blankets and I added pillows to the growing collection. My pile grew bigger and bigger. I had some on my own couch and I gave some away. But after my husband seriously started to question my sanity, I decided to take the plunge and open my own web shop.

I needed a name.

Et aussi means ‘and also’ in French. It referrers to all the ideas I had of items I wanted to make and all the colours I wanted to use. It was too much to start with. I had to start with a collection of blankets and pillows in a limited colour range.

Et aussi also means a promise for the future, of all the things to come.

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