About
I make blankets. Hand-sewn minky blankets, in small batches, out of a home studio in Salt Lake City.
I also happen to spend about two and a half months of every year on the other side of the Atlantic — in Cladich, Scotland, on The Highland Fold, a 283-year-old Highland cow farm. Those two places, and the people and animals in them, are where Highland Woobies comes from.
The Highland Fold has been a working farm in the village of Cladich for nearly three centuries. I get to spend part of every year there — mornings outside with the cows, afternoons at the table with fabric and thread.
The landscape, the weather, and the impossibly soft and shaggy Highland cows all end up in the blankets I make. That's not marketing — it's literally where most of the design choices come from.
The rest of the year, I work from a studio set up in my home in Salt Lake City. A couple of sewing machines, a cutting table, shelves of minky fabric, and a small retail space in the house for local pickups.
Most blankets are cut, sewn, and finished in that room — which is as personal as it sounds.
Minky is a soft, short-pile plush fabric — the kind you don't want to put down once you've felt it. Every Highland Woobie is made to order.
That means I don't pull from a warehouse of ready-made inventory. I pick the fabric, cut it to your size, sew and finish it, and send it out. That's slower than mass production. It also means every blanket has one person's hands on it, not twenty.
If you've never met a Highland cow: they're small-ish, built for cold weather, have shaggy red-brown coats, extravagant fringe, gentle eyes, and modest horns. Everyone falls in love.
Many of my prints feature them — a love letter to the fold at Cladich, and to the animal that gave this company its name.