'I love the idea of making art in spite of the circumstances,” says TonyChestnut founder Jill Sawatzky.
That aspect of openness is captured by the brand’s name as well, which derives from a childhood action song Sawatzky learned at camp. “I like that it’s a man’s name,” she notes about lending a certain ambiguity to her work, adding that the ‘chestnut’ also speaks to her use of natural fibres like woven cotton. And here Sawatzky points to her Mennonite heritage as another influence. “I’m very inspired by the idea of living off the land and sustainability-at-large.
It was Sawatzky’s grandmother who taught her how to knit as a teenager—a skill she put back to use last year in the midst of “an anxious time. I felt like I needed to do something with my hands that didn’t feel like work,” she says. But what started as a way to relax turned into another element of the Tony Chestnut brand; Sawatzky occasionally offers a range of one-of-a-kind knitwear on her website, all crafted from leftover bits of yarn she has sourced from other knitters in her community.
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