Hide-a-Bed

When Loraine took over our loft bedroom we were forced to move our bed downstairs, into our living room.  Instead of spending thousands on a new sleeper sofa I came up with plan to hide our bed.  I designed and made a custom fitted wool slip cover, sewed a couple cushion slip covers out of left over wool/linen material and covered our bed pillows in linen, creating a perfect solution to our "bed in the living room" problem.  I also built in some bookshelves, and made some simple linen curtains and hung them by a basic dowel supported on a couple of old iron coat hooks.  Almost everything in this space I made with recycled, repurposed, or found materials.

Custom cushion made out of wool and a thrifted repurposed jacket.

all designs ©KVL, Kati von Lehman 2012

Crocheted Basket

design ©KVL, Kati von Lehman

Furniture

This walnut piece of furniture was completed in 2010.  It can function as both a table and bench seat.  I constructed the cushion from wool I knitted and felted and filled with bamboo fibers.  Design ©KVL

This is the first piece of furniture I have made, completed in 2010.  It is made from a single piece of poplar. Design ©KVL

I constructed this bench with bookshelf out of 1/2" birch veneered plywood, completed in 2011.  This is my first attempt at finger joints and mieter joints fitted together with custom hand carved wooden dowels. Design ©KVL

This is my adaptation of The Swing Low cradle by Danish Designer Søren Ulrik Petersen.  Completed 2011.  I took an old army blanket, felted it, sandwiched some interfacing in between and quilted them together.  I used hemp twine to construct the shape and hang the cradle.

This hanging cradle was constructed out of left over birch veneered plywood.  The mattress cushion is made of heavy canvas, which is naturally moisture resistant, and covered by hand knitted and felted wool, which is also naturally moisture resistant and anti bacterial.  It is hung by hand knotted sisal twine.  Completed 2011. Design ©KVL

Canvas Nesting Grocery Bags

design ©KVL, Kati von Lehman 2012

LLVL Knitwear now available on Etsy

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LLVL

LLVL is a line of knitwear I created for my daughter:

Baby Blanket

T Sweater Dress

Asymmetric Knit Leggings and Felted Shoes with Leather Sole

all designs @KVL, Kati von Lehman 2012