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In the works: Beneath the Birch

Fronts
Four finished Beneath the Birch bookmarks side by side on a cutting mat: each has a white birch trunk, green leaves, a gold crescent moon and stars on a navy ground, two red fly agarics with white spots among ferns, and a gold border.
Backs
The backs of the same four bookmarks: plain navy twill inside the gold border, each with a small gold moon embroidered near the bottom.

Fresh off the machine: our next bookmark. A white birch under a crescent moon, and two fly agarics pushing up through the ferns at its foot, stitched on a deep night-blue ground and edged in gold.

That red cap never grows alone. It lives alongside trees like birch and pine, trading with them through their roots. Just under 30,000 stitches each, and here they are.

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Three weeks, one room

Before
The guest and craft room before the work started: a sloped-ceiling room with sage green walls, a multi-needle embroidery machine on a rolling stand beside the window, a sewing machine, an ironing board, a cutting mat on the carpet, and fabric offcuts, boxes and half-finished projects across the floor.
After
The same sloped-ceiling room as the studio: deep green walls, wood floors, a long white cutting table with a gridded mat on a round white rug under a drum pendant light, a glass-front cabinet of supplies, an ironing board, and framed pictures leaning against the wall.

Three weeks ago, this was the guest room. Fabric scraps on the carpet. The embroidery machine squeezed in by the window. Every surface already taken.

So we cleared it out and started over. Deep green walls. Wood floors. And down the middle, a long cutting table with room to lay a whole piece out flat.

This is where House Alba gets made now. Want to see what comes off that table first? Leave your email below.