Lace 'M Up Tight.

'Mrs.P' and 'Mr.Ray' have been looking to get their young one a new pair of footwear and are having a ruff time at finding something reasonable to their likes and needs. So being the way 'Mr.Ray' is, he decided to give a go at building an ankle boot style for their little 'Stampede'. Since he is older and running all over the place 'Mr.Ray' wanted to build something a bit more stable that the amazing little kicks that 'Mrs.P' has been building.
Here is a small overview of the first sample stages and what goes into building something new from scratch...

Rough sketch...
Now he needs to take that sketch and hack out a pattern. This is the hard part...

Now he has a pattern. He now cuts out the pieces for a sample in cheep fabric. Here the 'upper' is sewn together...
First sample roughed out. We use this to test fit and to get an idea of what the final is going to look like. If we do not like what we see or something is wrong in the fit then he goes back to the pattern and remakes it. So far so good...
Now to get out the leather and see what we can do.
Will keep you posted on the process and building of a final sample so check back soon.

Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'
& The Littlecrow Family

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Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'
& The Littlecrow Family.

Keep em on Their Feet.

One of the projects brewing here at Lc headquarters, that we plan to explore, is the building of footwear. 'Mrs.P' took an idea she come up with and with the help of 'Ol' Mrs.White' built a great pair of 'crib shoes'.


They are made from soft 100% cotton micro brushed herringbone twill. Super soft yet nice and durable.
These are great.
More to come later.

Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'
& The Littlecrow Family.

If it is Broke...

As mentioned a while ago we have moved and have been settling into our new place out in the country. As you settle it sometimes takes a while to get into the grove of things and get back into following plans and checklists and whatnot. Well we have started to do just that with the 'Littlecrow Collection', building and sewing and creating in our new space. When all of the sudden the trusty little White home machine,'Ol' Mrs.White', decided she was not feeling well and so stopped working in the middle of stitching. This is not good when what you are doing uses this very tool to complete and build. So 'Mr.Ray' sat down with her and removed a few screws here and there opened her up and with a few 'love taps' with a hammer on some parts, a nice brush off of old lint build up, and a few sips of oil in all her moving parts she is back on the boat working away as smooth as the day she came into his life.


Now when all this happened and she was out of work for a few hours 'Mrs.P' went to use one of those fancy new sewing machines that her sister has with all the computer controls and self threading options. It got us all thinking, maybe it is time to look into one for our operation. I mean the automatic button hole stitch is a mighty fine feature to say the least..... Though that would be nice, 'Mr.Ray' could not just pop her open give some love and nurse it back to health if a situation arose. The fancy computer operated machines we have today all have to be taken into a specialist to get fixed up.

Needless to say we are back and running and even with the thought of one day getting a "fancy button hole maker" the ol' white machine will continue to be one of our work horses. Got to love the things you start with when you are young. God bless 'Ol' Mrs.White'.

Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'
& The Littlecrow Family

Comming Soon.

We will keep you posted on our new online shop opening soon... This week even!

Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'

A New Journey.

Well we have made our move. We must apologize for not posting for quite sometime. A lot has come and pass for us. We are now settling in to our new place. We promise to begin to posting on a regular basis. We have a lot in the works and a lot that is going to happen very soon. So check back often as we start down this exciting path.

Cheers,
'Mr.Ray'
& The Littlecrow Family