Iryna Toney

Charleston, SC
Fiber

I moved to the USA from Europe where I spent many years working with stitches - knitting ladies' high fashion garments, shawls, and unique accessories for metropolitan luxury retail boutique stores. My grandma showed me how to knit. She was my only teacher, since that time I am self-taught.

Later, as a designer for a manufacturing company that supplied knitted fashions to retail stores, I gained valuable experience in the interesting variety of garment construction alternatives. That experience gave me confidence and a reputation as a knitting expert, and I landed an exciting job that required me to travel throughout Europe and Asia as an installer and instructor for the manufacturer of PASSAP knitting machines. I worked as an instructor training people to use the company-produced knitting machines. I gained a lot of inspirations from my trips to exotic places, and I learned a lot about different customs and lifestyles, and how wonderful is the variety of high fashion and traditions in the world. Now I live in an historic area of the USA on the eastern coast, where I am happily married to my very supportive American husband.

I enjoy creating beautiful, durable and unique quality garments and accessories for ladies of refinement and taste. I hope you will enjoy wearing them. My designs come from my original ideas without any guidance from books, magazines or patterns. Each and every one of them is original and unique. I am seriously conscientious about the construction of each item, whether an accessory or a garment fashioned to flatter your body. I handcraft each piece myself and am intimately involved with each garment — no assembly lines or piecework here. The whole garment from start to finish, the selection of fibers and—ultimately—the design are from me.

I am open to communication and will be happy to answer all your questions.