It means so much to me when people like my designs and wear them. But I enjoy it and I can see my objectives achieved through each new design. "This kind of craft is quite laborious – it requires a lot of time and patience.
"Several times I've finished a piece but I don't want to sell it because my oldest daughter liked it so much she wanted it. Little by little I learned more from the courses. I've always liked to keep busy, so I knitted things for my children and crocheted decorative items for the house. "I began knitting as a hobby when I was at home with time on my hands. But my training in textile arts came from my mother, who learned from my grandmother, as this art has been handed down in my family for generations. At the same time, I entered nursing school and recently graduated. "I started attending courses to learn different knitting and crochet techniques, and I began to create pieces made to order. I worked in a lot of jobs and, several years later, I got married and had three children. When I finished high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do. "When I was 15, I went to Lima to seek a better future.
from the time I was a little girl, I'd help her make tablecloths, sweaters and other items for my brothers. My mother taught me to knit and crochet, and. The busy mom and Etsy-extraordinaire says owning her shop is “one of the most rewarding and hardest things she’s ever done."I was born in Trujillo on September 20, 1971, and lived there as a child. She returned to her creative roots, crediting “all those hours in the knitting and weaving lab” at FIT, as well as her grandmother’s crocheting lessons, to her boutique’s success. Fitzpatrick attended The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and created her Etsy shop in July 2011 when she couldn’t find the baby blanket of her dreams for her baby-to-be. It will appear in episode 13 of season four, sometime in early 2013, but an exact date has not yet been set. The Artisan’s Group also paved the way for a pair of Fitzpatrick’s fingerless gloves to appear on the HBO show “True Blood.” While Fitzpatrick isn’t an avid watcher of “The Vampire Diaries” - she said “it’s a little out of her age range as a mother of two, and it’s on at a hectic time, (bedtime)” - she will most definitely be watching to see her hat’s small-screen debut.
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Her shop’s web banner says she “creates handmade accessories for your little one’s big sense of style.” Her specialty hats were included in “swag bags” gifted to celebrities at events like award shows and have already graced the tiny heads of Bryn Hoppy, daughter of Bravo reality TV star Bethenny Frankel, and Eloise Joni, youngest daughter of Denise Richards, as well as soap star Alison Sweeney.
This isn’t the first time Fitzpatrick’s designs have made it into big-name hands. Fitzpatrick’s hat, along with 13 other items, were chosen out of 80 submissions. Members of the group were asked to send their products for consideration for the show. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Artisan’s Group, an exclusive community of artisans who handcraft their products and gift them to celebrities and members of the press at events like the Oscars and Golden Globes. The hat retails for $34 on Fitzpatrick’s Etsy shop.
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Now one of her items will make an appearance on the popular CW television show “The Vampire Diaries.” Leigh Leverett, stylist for the show - a teen drama about a town full of supernatural beings - contacted Fitzpatrick recently to let her know that charcoal heather grey crocheted-brim hat will be worn by the show’s heroine and main character, Elena Gilbert (played by Nina Dobrev), in an upcoming 2013 episode. SARATOGA SPRINGS - The virtual doors of local artisan Dori Fitzpatrick’s Etsy shop, Hunky Dori Boutique, have only been open for a little over a year, but in no time she’s made a name for herself on the online marketplace, having sold more than 700 handmade creations.
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