About the Maker
🎉OUR 16th YEAR in Business!
In 2011 I saw a vendor selling sweater mittens at a craft fair that our 10 yr. old daughter was selling at. She did a trade with her for a pair of sweater mittens for me. When we got home, I tried them on again, I realized they didn’t fit well. I commented to my husband, David, that they felt more like an “oven mitt” and not very comfortable. He replied, “why don’t you make your own.” So, we did.
We went to our local thrift store to stock up on sweaters, found a pattern online which I modified to tailor our mittens to fit better. Our production was done at our dining room table until one day, a month into our new craft our kids (10 & 12) sat us down and had an intervention of sorts. They informed us that if we were going to continue it had to be in another part of the house. They wanted to sit down and have our family dinner and do homework at the table without our mittens everywhere.
We moved our production into a spare room and started making and selling mittens at local craft fairs and on the ice during Pond Hockey in Meredith Bay. One night (early am) and a bottle of wine gone. David said, “let’s call them SMITTENS”
(Short for sweater mittens) and they have been ever since.
We are a family business with our kids, now grown adults, being part of the process since the beginning.
Over the 15 years we have added a line of fleece hats, scarves & mittens as well as a Cashmere Gift Sets that are made from new cashmere scarves and lined with cashmere. 100% flannel/fleece backed blankets for cozy comfort and great year-round were added in 2023.
We also do special orders for those who have a favorite sweater that no longer fits or from a loved one’s who has passed away."
Featured Work
Repurposed sweater mittens, cashmere gift sets, fleece hats, mittens & scarves.
