The Story.
My partner has a small rotation of clothes, the kind that are lived in. He wears the same few things, day in, day out. During my pregnancy, there was one sweatshirt that he wore constantly. It became a soft and familiar, part of the everyday. By the time our daughter arrived, it had a few holes, and very worn cuffs. I attempted a fix, but it was time for it to go.
But I couldn’t let it go. I loved its design and I was determined to make something for our daughter from it. Paired with a stained neutral sweatshirt and a tangerine sweatshirt to match the original embroidery the design began to develop. What began as a personal project turned into a one-person studio creating small-batch baby sweatshirts from second-hand materials. Every piece is reworked, cut, and sewn in Bristol. No two are ever quite the same, and that’s the point.
Lixo is about sentiment, sustainability, and simplicity. Keeping the things that matter, and rethinking what we already have.
Behind the scenes.
Each piece starts with a second-hand sweatshirt, checked over for wear, stains, and usable panels. Fabric is unpicked and laid flat, then measured against a pattern to see what can be salvaged. The best sections are cut for the body, while cuffs and hems are turned inside out for a complete refresh. The original character kept intact.
Every sweatshirt is planned individually, colours balanced, new seams sewn and finished off with a Lixo label. The original sweatshirt can usually provide enough material to be used in multiple tiny sweatshirts.
It’s a small-scale process, done by hand from start to finish in Bristol.
