Elki Design » Children’s clothes

Elki photo shoot

emma — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:07:31 +0000

Finally, here are some snaps of our elki range on the gorgeous and talented Maisie. Maisie is 4months and looks fabulous!

Liberty Pinafore here…

Our NEW Liberty Wiltshire rompersuit here…

Also, just a reminder, we will be at the Southern Highland Christmas Fair Markets this weekend (both Saturday and Sunday), so we hope to see you there. It will be held at Southern Highland Winery (between Moss Vale and Sutton Forest, Southern Highlands NSW) and will hold over 200 stalls.

New products!

emma — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:27:46 +0000

Finally, I have had time to upload some of our new children’s products – just in time for the upcoming summer weather (although you wouldn’t realise summer is around the corner today – gail force winds, heater on etc!).

These Liberty of London frilled pantaloons are great for newborns to toddlers, as they are comfortable and easy to care for. They are full length in the leg with the frill, as well as French seams on front and back seams for extra durability. Made from 100% cotton. They are elastic waist and legs for easy use. Can be worn as trousers for warm, summer days. click here for more

This beautiful ‘Liberty of London’ pinafore with square neckline, features a yoke and two decorative buttons at the back. There is a generous, full body dress – which would be perfect over tights or leggings, for special occasions. click here for more.

This 100% voile cotton camisole (left) and dress (right) are bound with Liberty of London print. They feature cotton trim details on both the front and back neckline. They could be used over bloomers or leggings for the day. click here for more…

New products

emma — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:05:10 +0000

Here is a quick snapshot of some of our new products. Just in the midst of sorting out costings and deep-etching the images. But they will be up by the end of the week – so keep your eyes peeled. They include: long bloomers, a bib and a cotton voile shirt and dress with beautiful lace insert. Will post them on the site by the end of the week.

Up, up and away

emma — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:21:11 +0000

Well its almost been a year since Georgina and I registered ‘elki design’ as a business, and today our online store is LIVE! Hooray.

A little encounter with Optus internet (for some reason disconnected me) and a few tears, have only added to our complete joy (and a little relief) that elki is up. So just some housekeeping news:

Store: In keeping with our desire to keep things all cost-effective, we’ve decided to have one flat postage and handling fee per transaction. So no matter how much you buy, it will only cost you $8.00 in P&H! Cause believe me, there is nothing worse than paying more in P&H than the actual product!

Blog: you may have noticed being redirected from my old blogger blog. Our swish new site has my blog developed into it. So please update your bookmarks with the new address. As you’ve probably noticed, you need to click ‘more’ to read the end of the blog entry. This will then show you the comments below. Its a little different from Blogger, but it will keep the blog looking clean and tidy.

Twitter: Yes, I too have jumped on the bandwagon and decided to join Twitter. So as I’m getting my head around it, if you too are also a twitterer (such a word?), please tell me, and we can follow each other. You’ll find us under elkidesign.

Facebook: That’s right, what is someone without a facebook page – elki had to have one! If you search for us, become a fan – we’d love to have your company.

Design: Just a reminder to everyone, that elki design can also design your next logo, business card, flyer, website or wedding stationery. I am a qualified graphic designer and running a freelance design business, and love nothing more than creating beautiful designs.

Ok, I think i’ve covered everything, please let me know how you go around elki’s new site. If you would like to join our monthly newsletter, please do so on the left hand side. We would love to hear from you all about what you think. Can’t wait to hear from you all. Em x

elki design

emma — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:38:00 +0000

Our online store will be up and running in only a few weeks time! You will be able to buy our entire range of children’s wear, homewares, stationery and accessories. Made all carefully by hand using Liberty of London fabrics and other beautiful cottons. I’m very very excited and this weekend will be another weekend of sewing and designing. Stay tuned

click click

emma — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:06:00 +0000

We’re in the process of taking photos of all of our products at the moment. After a few set backs of our digi camera dying and saving up for a new one, and finding time between sunlight and full time work, is drawing out the timeline. Our products include feather filled cushions, linen tea towels, linen napkins with embroidered borders, children’s tradtional bloomers, little girls summer pin-tuck dresses, baby muslin wraps with verying bias binding, baby singlets with embroidery, old-fashioned money purses, and more. So sit tight!
image from www.gettyimages.com

Some treasures….

emma — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:17:00 +0000

These gorgeous woodblocks, I picked up recently in Paris. I discover this most gorgeous little shop, by accident, that sold all of these antique ‘odds and ends’. I also picked up a pair of wooden shoe moulds. The antique champagne glass, from one of my many finds in a garage sale (i have a little thing for all things glass and vintage!). The two tall jars were sent as a promotional gift to georgie with oysters in them – very luxe!

Just some old vintage books we had lying around with this lovely branch Georgie had collected.

These are old New York tram signs which I’ve had framed. It sits at our entrance and I just love the typography, even though I dislike justified text, its the simplicity of the design which has lasted all this time.

Please excuse the photography, my camera is on the blink and so the old digi camera has made an appearance! Stay tuned our product range of homewares and children’s clothes using our eccletic mix of fabrics and Liberty of London fabrics.

emx

and so it begins…

emma — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:52:00 +0000

elki design has been our little creative child for some years, and its been in the past 6 months that we’ve brought our little baby out into the world. So let me introduce ourselves: emma and georgina kaveney. I (em) is a qualified graphic designer and have been working in an inner-city design studio for the past three years, whilst dabbling in my passion of interiours and painting outside of work. My sister, Georgina, is outragiously talented in all things creative. Having studied fashion design, cheffing and now working as a food stylist for one of Australia’s largest food magazines.
Our passions are very similar and we’re able to bounce of each other, which is the basis for any great professional relationship. Our love for old treasures (furniture, fabrics, books, jewellery, silver) and vintage shops – as well as introducing modern twists here and there.

elki is a business where we can create childrens clothes and homewares from beautiful fabric with refined dressmaking skills. Mum use to make all our dresses when we were smaller with the beautiful Liberty of London fabric. Probably most people have come across it, and yes it was a little ‘abused’ in the 80’s. But we using Liberty fabric in modern ways to ‘mix it up’ and avoid the ‘head to toe look’ of Liberty!

We have our website up and running at the moment, and will be uploading some photos of our products up soon. We hope you enjoy our little blog and more importantly provide you with a little pleasure and inspiration

emx