The hand behind Little Hand

I started drawing long before I started sewing.

For years I worked in illustration and surface pattern design — drawing things that ended up on other people’s products. Then I had my own two, and I went looking for baby things that felt like something. Everything I found was either mass-printed with the same three animals, or beautiful and priced like it was never meant to be spit up on.

So I made my own.

The work

Every print in this shop starts as a drawing on my iPad — sketched, redrawn, adjusted until the goose looks a little bit smug and the giraffe looks a little bit surprised. Nothing here is licensed art or stock pattern. If you’ve seen it before, it wasn’t from me.

From there it goes to fabric in small runs, and then I sew. One bib at a time, at my kitchen table. When a print run is gone, that design is retired.

The materials

I care about what sits against a baby’s skin. The front of every bib is GOTS-certified organic cotton. Behind that is absorbent batting, and the back is soft minky — because a bib that’s stiff is a bib that gets pulled off in three seconds.

I’d rather be honest about construction than call something “all organic” when it isn’t.

Why small batches

Because I’m one person, and because I like it that way. Small runs mean I can try a print, see if it lands, and move on. It means your bib isn’t in ten thousand other homes. And it means when something sells out, it genuinely is sold out.

Closing

If you’re buying for your own baby — thank you, and I hope it survives the first year of purées.

If you’re buying it as a gift, it arrives ready to give.

Either way, it was made by hand, by me, and it was made to be used.