Ompompom is a graphic felt textile designer based in the seaside town of Hastings UK. All products are designed, knitted, sewn and finished by me, Sally Underwood. Offering a bespoke service ( on garments) I make to order on most designs so that you get the garment that is made for you.
Knitting on a vintage brother machine and using a knitwear design programme I have been knitting and felting textiles for many years. Using only lambswool sourced from the UK from one supplier to enable a regular finish. I use lambswool as it is soft and can create bold flat colour.
My pieces are influenced by my use of colour ranging from extremely colourful geometric and bold to more understated with pops of colour and geometric shapes influenced from the dinks of colour popping on the fisherman's beach in Hastings on a gloomy day.
Using a fair isle technique the products create an interesting textile inside too.
I create fishermen smock jumpers, cardigans and coatigans as well as scarves, hats, fingerless mittens hot water bottle covers and cushions in homewares. Designs are changing all the time as I love developing new ideas but I am able to reproduce products which have been sold.
Prices range from £38 - £370
ompompom is the name of my business offering a bespoke garment for you from a range of 6 designs in either a jumper, jacket, or coatigan. You can find the 6 patterns on my website under the bespoke page. The 6 designs on the page in order are, Anouk ( a geometric Scandinavian Bauhas design in 4 - 9 colours), Kees ( influenced from shapes seen from the sea on Hastings beach, bouys, fish boxes, boats and rescue rings dinks of these shapes may be your chosn colours) Gudrun ( a more organic painterly design in 3-5 colours) Otti ( pops of colours in cubes or short stripes changing to offer a sliding shade of graphic colour) , Pops ( contrast dots of fun and joy) and Shona ( an exaggerated tideline with a big circle and rectangle in contrast colours)
All my designs can be created in the garment style you would like in your colour choice. A lot of my colours can be seen in my hot water bottle covers which I create after colour sampling.
I am happy to take you into my studio via video wher I can talk you through my designs and colours. I can then draft up your colourway and I send it to you in an email before knitting.
I am happy to take paymets for garments in installments over a period of time.
Please feel free to contact me, I'm always happy to chat.
