Free Range Baby - The catalogue

See the side banner for a link to our latest catalogue, featuring sweet little Pippi & baby Leo in the best of free range baby wares.

Bubbles for summer

Summer rolls around again really quickly when you are working in both hemispheres at the same time! So while we are busy cutting out lovely vintage woollen coats, we are also putting the finishing touches on the latest and best ever set of super sweet vintage bubble suits.

Pippi, a free range baby

Wrapped up in Free Range Baby winter wears little Pippi and her gang of stuffed friends hit the parks and the beautiful coast line of Wellington yesterday. With 3 cameras on hand and a professional clown in tow we snapped for hours, with some super sweet results.

Thanks so much to Pippi, Justine, Daniel and Rich, you guys are awesome.

1000 pictures to sort and edit, but here is a preview.

Pippi & friends, getting ready for a day out at the park
Pippi wearing autumn daisy pet pocket pinafore and holding a GIANT pukeko softie

A little note on the new arrival

The latest free range baby dress was inspired by the little peach number, modelled by none other than yours truly and created by my mum, circa 1985.

The new arrival

Due to demand, free range baby has just added a brand new style to the range.
The latest edition is a little dress, all puffed and pleated and utterly sweet.

Here is a sneak peak at the very first one

Quilt it!

Warm things up even more with the quilted version of the free range baby winter coat! Super sweet and oh so snugly!

Winter Warmer: the long coat

... and here is the first of the lovely long woollen coats. This little number features the hood (there will be collared versions too). It's fully reversible too!

Our coats will be up for sale on Felt & Etsy from the 1st of May.

Publish Post

Getting Chilly...

Here is the first peek at the free range baby winter coats.
We are making two styles, the long and the short, with either collars or hoods. And as usual we will have oodles and oodles of fabric options to choose from.

These are the shorties... long coats on their way really soon


... These little gems and many more will be finding their way into the online shops over the next week.

Busy Busy...

Down at the free range baby studio we are working on earthy autumnal shades and dreaming up snuggly woolen winter coats. And trying, even as the weather gets chillier, to think about spring springing and summer on its way in the Northern world!

Glorious seasons!

Special tee

A series of genuine handmade tee's, created using remnant & vintage fabrics. All sewn by happy sewers @ Free Range Design studios in Wellington, New Zealand to the highest standards and made to last. They are limited editions so snap them up here while they last!

Sneak Peek

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Here is a sneak peak into free range baby's fabric stash - the product of endless hours trawling op shops far and wide! There is a fantastic range of drill weight vintage cottons that I can't wait to turn into little wears for the cooler months that are approaching.

Check out more fabrics currently available @ freerangebaby textiles 09

Butterflies and Bows

Free Range Baby sweetens up for the summer months with these little party frocks!

They feature gathered 'butterfly' sleeve and pleats and bows. Check these dresses and more out @ the free range baby etsy store (or follow the link to one of our online stores)

Beautiful Miller

Last month I got to hang out with an old school friend and her precious little girl Miller... I took these photos of Miller frolicking in her garden with her classic new zealand buzzy bee and her pet rabbit.

Martinborough Madness!

I'm currently sewing flat out for this Saturday, when Free Range Baby and I will be making our first ever appearance at the Martinborough fair!


Come and visit

Bubble Bubble Bubble

Summer has finally arrive! To celebrate the sun shining and long days at the beach free range baby has recently started producing a brand new super vintage summery number ...

the bubble suit

We are making these up in a range of colours for boys and girls, with lots of nautical themed numbers. They are available is sizes 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12months.

Check them out on our online store, pop into Swonderful in Wellington or contact vic@freerangebaby.co.nz for a custom order.

Pocket pet overalls

So, here they are at long last! Photos of some of the latest Free Range Baby classic pet pocket overalls. These little numbers are currently available in a range of funky fun fabrics, including cord, drill, plaid and with lots of vintage novelty cottons.

Check them out in our online store or if you are lucky enough to live near one of the fabulous shops that stock FRB.

Swonderful
Wanda Harland
Nuddy

Everyone loves world sweet world

I just wanted to make a quick shout out to the folks at WorldSweetWorld. If you haven't heard of these guys you are really missing out. They have a fantastic blog and the most beautiful magazine around... that just happens to have a tiny snippet on free range baby this issue, as well as all the other regular inspiring treats. I'm super proud of my fellow Wellingtonians and Sustainably minded crafting kin.

Chase down a copy of World Sweet World issue 3 today, and get the back issues too, promise you wont be disappointed!

Spring time pinafores galore

Free range baby classic pinafores with pocket pets are now available in a new funky fresh spring time collection. Check out the new stock @ Swonderful (now located on Victoria Street in Wellington CBD), Wanda Harland in Petone and online @ Felt & Etsy.

Not to worry boys, matching pet overalls are on their way!

Giraffe obsession

My obsession for giraffes continues. The latest item to feature a gorgeous vintage illustrated giraffe is this lovely pair of green vintage overalls. They now belong to little Eva, but this style of pleated overalls will be a regular feature in the free range baby line from now on.

Spring cranes - newly hatched

two members of the free range crane flock. many many more about to hatch

Latest wears from the free range baby waredrobe

Lined bonnet, vintage inspired suspender style overalls and striped elephant tee... just some of the brand new free range wears that found homes during the Knack market held over the weekend.

Pinafores and Overalls

These pet pinny's and overalls are free range baby classics, great staples in any wee ones wardrobe. They are available in standard or New Zealand themed and both varieties available in a wide variety of fabrics.

Standard pet pinny's and overalls come with free range chicken pet and New Zealand themed outfits feature Kiwi, Tui and Pukeko pets.

Overalls are available in shorts or longs, both feature convenient inside leg snaps.

Available in Sizes
6-12m
1-2years
2-3years

$48-56NZ each.

New kimono inspired spring jackets

These little numbers are a remake on my original free range baby tops.
Featuring vintage cotton outer, applique, contrasting banding and super snuggly cotton lining. Fastens with professional resin snaps.

Each of these are ONE-OF-A-KIND

$30each
size: xs newborn - 5-8lbs

Orange Zebra, and Mustard Bumble Bee

Here are the latest romper and hat sets. These baby basics feature reverse applique detail and animal styled hats.

Cotton/Lycra stretch
Resin snap crotch

Available in sizes
0-3m
3-6m
6-9m

$48NZ each

Welly Craft Markets - coming soon

I'm busy preparing lots of exciting new free range wears for Craft 2.0 , the fantastic indie craft show that takes over the New Dowse in Lower Hutt every once in a while. This is happening again on the 19th of July, so if you are in the Wellington area come check it out.

A little further down the track is my favourite local crafty event, Knack08. Not on the scale of craft2.0, but heaps of fun and you get a peak inside the wonderful community the operates around the Berhampore School. Next Knack 2nd of August @ Berahampore School, 105 Britomart Street (off Adelaide Road).


(update... picture of free range baby stall and me @ craft2.0)

Space Rangers

Spring time coats

Bring on spring time! It's been pretty hard to contemplate warmer weather while in the depth of an especially bitter Welly winter, but I'm starting to mix in some spring weight coats with the quilted variety. Here's hoping we might be able to do away with a few layers some time in the not too distant future.

This is my favourite new coat. All the spring coats are fully reversible, and come in plain, hooded or collared varieties.

Available in sizes 6, 12, 18months

construction of a farm yard coat

I spent the day cutting out a big new batch of coats. This is my favourite. Another Palmy Op. shop treasure is being turned into a quilted coat. I adore this print, orange, brown, animals and retro, what better combination could there be? Perhaps the african themed fabric I have in the same style.

This was my second attempt at quilting fabric, although I have now realised that I need to quilt the fabric after I cut out the pieces and insure that the batting is smaller than the outer fabric. Otherwise I end up with seams so thick that the poor little person inside the coat would be stuck like a statue, unable to move. It's going to be a case lots of unpicking and re quilting, oh well, all will be nutted out come #3!

Gorgeous vintage buttons too!

Watch this space for the finished product

Custom Orders

little free ranger, Elvie, sporting her free range baby tee at home in Sweden.

vintage cotton print bloomers with sky blue ribbed bands

cotton stretch tee with rib banding and "wee chick" appliqué and free style embroidery

I love doing custom orders, and it's even more fun making things when it's for a friend... Like these little numbers that flew off to Aussie on the weekend.

Quilted Winter Coats

It's rather chilly down at free range studios at the moment. This has inspired me to start cranking out super snuggly quilted coats.

This little number uses gorgeous vintage fairy tale cotton that mum and I found on our recent Op. shopping trawl in Palmy North. I paired the fairy tales with dusky blue drill. It's also fully lined with blue and white gingham, making it "almost" totally reversible, just those pesky buttons would be a bit tricky.

Check out those straight quilting lines too! My first attempt to quilt my own fabric.

Oh Summer..

Here is the last of the huge brimmed sun hats to keep all those nasty rays off wee ones. Yep, I'm feeling nostalgic about summer on a very chilly Wellington day in my studio.

Vintage girly bonnets

Beautiful vintage bonnets will be coming soon... when the weather warms up a little again. I can't wait to turn these designs into beautiful bonnets in vintage florals!

Cranes, Cranes, Cranes

The latest free range cranes have hatched. All of this batch are small or medium sized.

Available in sizes S - 10cm ($9) M - 20cm ($12) L - 35cm ($20) and JUMBO - 60cm (40). Sizes are based on wing span and are aprox. only.

Cranes available Sold individually or as a family. Price

angel tops

Gorgeous wee angel tops, as modeled by Cara below, are based on 1950's plunket patterns.
They are available in a selection of beautiful vintage florals.

























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Cranes fly

I find it impossible to part with even the smallest scrap of gorgeous vintage fabrics, being as they are irreplaceable and I hate being wasteful of cotton, given the huge resources that are pouring into its production.

So here is one of the remedies to the problem of creating "scrap" pieces of fabric in the production of free range baby clothing.

These are origami cranes, folded with fabrics in the same way as they would be with paper. Fabrics are patched together in order to create cranes in a variety of sizes.

free range farm yard

farm themed pinafore

This is my favourite of the latest batch of pinafores. The fabric in this wee number was screen printed in Norway in 1980, it took some serious commitment to cut into it, but I love how it turned out. If you want to check out more pinafores stop by the glorious Wanda Harland in Petone or Swonderful in Brooklyn (Wellington)... Pinafores retail for $58, are fully reversible and they come with the wee free range chick.

Custom orders always welcome, pinafores available in sizes 1, 2, 3 years

autumn t shirts

This is the first batch of free range baby t-shirts. Long sleeved mostly, as its started getting pretty chilly.