Gina Rockenwagner Making Stuff

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Pattern and hat available in our online shop!

Talia and I working on fitting a muslin in our studio. Our dress form was hand made in New Jersey by Wolf form company. She still needs a name, I’m taking suggestions!

Meet Talia! (right) Talia helps me with pattern making and running the studio. We met in college at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  It’s nice to work with friends, especially when they’re super talented!

Our FW16 Marcia tank, Alanna scarf, and Roxanne pants in soft space dyed baby alpaca, available now. We collaborated with a fair trade certified dye house on this special yarn. I love going to Peru to teach our dyers. Usually I learn more myself from them than they learn from me! Our dyers are such talented ladies.

Here’s our book shelf full of inspiration and reference materials. I highly recommend picking up a copy of Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework. It’s a tome of information I refer to constantly. You can find a used copy on Ebay for around $6.

I like to have cheerful things close by when I’m working. This is the shelf above my desk. I bought the sparkly tassels at Mercado San Camilo in Arequipa, Peru. They help keep morale high when I’m going through a swamped email inbox or making tech packs (my favorite tasks! JK). The fluffy alpacas are from the hand craft market in Arequipa, Peru. I bought the vintage fruit book plates at the Santa Monica Airport flea market. Lisa Rupp made the floral print. The small ceramic alpaca is by @monicatramos

Two scarves, a pullover, and a pair of socks from our Fall/Winter 2016 line. Everything is knit in soft and sustainable baby alpaca, except the socks, which are pima cotton.

This is a bulky gauge knitting machine I use with chunkier yarns. The vintage poster behind me is from a German home economics class. It shows how to mend things properly!

The first thing I see when I walk into my studio is this rack of clothes, a mix of samples, works in progress, and pieces I’ve made in the past that we are working from now for inspiration. I love laying my fresh eyes on the clothing first thing when I arrive in the morning. I get a better feel for my gut reaction to the piece I’m working on when I see it unexpectedly after not seeing it for at least a couple hours. You can’t avoid that type of confrontation when you have the rack of clothes front and center!

Hi! I’m Gina Röckenwagner, creative director, owner, boss lady of Poppy+Pima. I also make quilts, among many other things. Welcome to my studio where I make said things! I hope you’ll stay for the tour!

Pink things in our studio

Special space dye socks!

Pima cotton socks remind you it will be OK

New socks! In Pima cotton! :)

36x30 inches