Hello, chums of Mayu! I am very pleased to present the first teasing glimpse of our new fall designs (trailers take a long time to make, but maybe we will come up with a doozy at some point)! Kate (Mayu’s founder) is very excited to be in Peru, working with our artisans on putting the final touches on the new collection. Right now, however, she has very spotty internet, so she asked me to post the following pictures for her, as a “real-time” update from South America. We hope you enjoy!
The first photo features Kate’s somewhat less-than-polished design notes that will eventually turn in to Mayu’s lovely hand-knit alpaca products! Not to worry, the quality of how the process begins does not refect the end product! This is just how we roll, literally! Sometimes the whole Mayu process just feels like a spinning ball of collaborations and deadlines, and that is just how we like it. 
As this time our designer, Laddhavan Sutana, has created actual samples of our fabulous fall line that have been sent to Peru. However, Kate is not a knitter and sometimes needs to take spontaneous notes all over the place to better understand the knitting process. She not only takes notes, at one point she actually had to call Laddhavan from a crackly payphone in Chiquian to better understand some logistics. She said it was hard to hear. Remember making calls from phone booths? Talk about a blast from the past.
Thanks for reading and following! More teasers to follow! Keep up to date with Kate’s visit to Peru, and visit our blog, follow us on Twitter and find us on FB!
Chao,
Chelsea
Mayu Intern
Tags: Chiquian, Fall Designs, Kate, Kate Robertson, Mayu, Mayu Artisans, Mayu Cuentos, Peru
