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Country Mouse in the City, Part One: Nolita

Hello there, dear readers!  Pam here, Winter Water Factory's new Retail Marketing Manager.  Except for my brief stint as the WWF intern last summer, I'm more or less a fairly recent transplant to New York City.  You could even say that I'm a relative newcomer to city life itself, as you can see from the picture below, taken during Thanksgiving last year.

It was a little crowded around the dinner table with all these guys hanging about.

I love exploring new places, and the neighborhoods of New York City are overflowing with hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered.  And so, I've decided to document my adventures around this fair city, including both fabulous finds and unfortunate failures, to be fair.  

For my first installment of Country Mouse in the City (A Beginner's Guide to the Big Apple), I decided to wander around north of Little Italy, aka Nolita, in Manhattan.  

Clockwise from L to R: map of Nolita; the places I intended to visit; notepad from Cafe Gitane; menu from The Butcher's Daughter; postcard from Cafe Gitane

Jumpsuits!

Our warm and cozy French terry jumpsuits are in stock.  Head on over to our website and check them out!

Fall 13 Has Arrived!

Our Fall 13 Collection made its way to our website last week, and we're so happy to have it live and selling wonderfully! Thank you for all your support, we're thrilled to see how many of you are loving the new collection!

There are lots of new items to choose from, and of course WWF favorites but in new colors! Be sure to check out our Fall 13 Collection here, or if something is out-of-stock then please visit our retailers page here, to locate the item you want.

Painting Party!

We gathered up some friends at the new place for a painting party last Sunday....pleased to say that it was a successful day!

Before

In Progress

Winter Water Factory is coming to Europe!

We've got some exciting news - Winter Water Factory is coming to Europe!! 

We are expanding our reach and are happy to announce that our friends and fans in Germany (and many other countries in Europe) can now order directly from :: winterwaterfactory.de 

The site is currently in German, but we will ship to many other countries in Europe!

Shipping from Moers, Germany, and run by Dirk Grueter (pictured above) we are starting with a limited collection for summer, so get it while it lasts!

Big News!

We have some really exciting news here at Winter Water Factory! We've grown too big for our current space and are moving to a new studio this month! We'll still be located in Brooklyn, NYC. We've been doing loads of work to our new space, and are very excited about all those windows. 

Here's a sneak peek at our progress...

BEFORE

IN PROGRESS

We can't wait to fill this big space up with loads of Winter Water Factory goodies! We'll be sure to keep you updated on the progress.

ENK :: FALL 2013 Sneak Peek!

Thanks to the ENK Show we attended last month - you'll be getting a sneak peek of our Fall 2013 collection! We wanted to show you some pictures from our booth, and give you an idea of what is to come. Lots of new prints, and styles!

Yes, those are baby blankets...well that concludes our little peek. We look forward to showing you the rest in Fall 2013!

The Faces of WWF

*pictures featured above were taken by Small Fry, Mer-Mag, Heart and Habit, and This Little Street

We've been getting some adorable press lately! We love how blogs are taking their own pictures of children in our clothes! Not only does it give them the ability to judge our clothing in person, but it makes for some really sweet shots.

These are just a few of our recent WWF love - there are more over at our Pinterest "featured" board. 

Visiting the Factory

Just like our clothing tags read, all of our products are 100% certified organic cotton and made in the USA. We thought the "made in the USA" bit might be fun if we gave our customers a peek into what that means. So on one of our many factory visits - where our clothes are made, we decided to take some pictures of the process. Pictured above is the final product, but it doesn't start off that way...

We usually print our fabric to order, but always have a little extra, just in case - and in this case, for the solid colors, we had to do a whole dye lot for each color, so we've got a lot of extra! This will all be t-shirts one day...

Our fabric is laid out to be cut into pieces for rompers. I love the old equipment they use - it runs along a rail at the edge of the cutting table, and makes it really easy to spread out wide fabrics from a roll.

Uppercase Magazine

We were thrilled when we opened our current issue of Uppercase Magazine and saw that we were one of the studio's featured from their visit to the The Old American Can Factory. We were't sure we'd make the cut, but are so happy we did!! You can find us on page 68 and in issue 16.

Want to see more of the awesome press we've received? Then click here. 

Customer Love :: Sweet Luna

Oh sweet sweetness look at baby Luna and her lovely mom matching in all Winter Water Factory outfits! We can't express enough how giddy this makes us!! 

We love receiving pictures from our customers of them, or their little ones wearing our clothes. So take a cue from adorable Luna and email us some pictures - we'll post them here!

Post Love :: Heart and Habit

We love when bloggers, or anyone takes pictures of their adorable little ones in our clothes! The latest sweetness is on the blog, Heart & Habit featuring her daughter wearing our Aurora June Leaf print dress. How cute is she? Those little knees sure make us smile!

20% Off Holiday Collection!

Ho Ho Ho! 

We're getting into the holiday spirit this year by creating a Holiday 2012 collection, and for the rest of December all the items in it are 20% off!! 

Pictured below are just some of the goodies that are currently reduced!

Press is the Best!

We were VERY excited to be included in A Cup of Jo's Holiday Gift Guide for 2012!!! 

For more of our press, just check our Pinterest. We'd love to have you!

Sneak Peek :: Women's Clothing

Though we're more known for our children's clothing, Winter Water Factory has been creating women's clothing for years, and this season we're releasing a limited edition of dresses and tops in our favorite prints! 

They're 100% organic cotton and entirely made in the USA. They come in sizes extra small, small, and medium. You can see them all here.

The limited edition women's clothing will be up on our website soon, but until then, we thought you'd enjoy this sneak peek!

Behind the Scenes at the Babiekins Shoot

Our summer intern Pam was able to go behind the scenes at the Babiekins shoot and take a few snapshots.  She even helped out the photographer, Andrea Chu, a bit with lighting (and clearing up some pesky cupcake crumbs after the tea party scene).  More pictures after the jump!

10 YEARS

It's been 10 years since I went down to the Brooklyn County Clerk's office and signed up to "do business as" Winter Water Factory. I walked out with my stamped and sealed certificate, proud and amused that the factory my sister and I invented many years ago on her snowy balcony in Germany was now a real thing. I was at the time knitting hats and sewing bags for a little store called Johnson on the Lower East Side, and thought I better make it official since I was putting winter water factory labels on them.

Vintage Pic - Steffi modeling hand-knitted hat (the ones we sold at Johnson)

Little did I know what would become of this endeavor, and looking back I have to say the best part as always was the people I met along the way! Kim Johnson, the owner and creator of Johnson, is still a friend of mine. I run into her and her super-awesome kids at the playground up the street from the studio (with her daughter wearing a visibly worn-out wwf dress), and she's just one of many others.

The other good parts - at least looking back - were all the crazy struggles and weird situations that come along with starting a company and figuring it out as we go along, but those might have to wait for another post.

The things that we're most proud of are some decisions that we made early on, some basic rules for us that we've stuck with and that looking back have sometimes made it harder for us but in the end have made it all worthwhile. When we learned about how many pesticides are used in conventional cotton growing, we decided to only use organic cotton. From the start we said that we would only produce everything in the US, and make sure our supplies are made here as well. We're glad we've been sticking to these rules for many years - they turned out to be the right choices!

The design and the inspiration, well, that's the fun part, and we're really thankful that our customers and their parents appreciate our style and have been supporting us and helped us grow over the years. That's really who made us who we are.

We can't wait to see what the next 10 years will bring! Thank you for your continued support and love!

xoxo,

Steffi

Winter Water Factory

Screen-Printed Tea Towels DIY, Part One

This summer, we decided to try out one of our newest prints on some tea towels!  It was a little tricky trying to line up the triangles, but we made it work.  More pictures and the first half of the tutorial after the jump.

Last week Nicole Balch, the creator of Making it Lovely, got to (quickly) interview Martha Stewart. We loved what Martha had to say (pictured above) about American-made products and bringing them back. As a company that focuses on producing only American-made products, this really resonated with us. 

As mentioned in the blog post, Martha Stewart is behind the American Made event that is happening this week (October 17 & 18) in New York at the Grand Central Terminal.

We're happy to announce that we'll be at the American Made event, selling a selection of snapsuits and rompers (due to limited space) as a part of the "our finds" marketplace. 

The editors of Martha Stewart Living selected their favorite American makers to sell their wares, and Winter Water Factory is part of a table that is shared by crafters that work at Martha Stewart! Our very own Stefanie Lynen will also be there on Thursday afternoon, helping with craft workshops and demoing craft projects.

We hope to see you there, and learn more details here!!