Queen City's new home at Factory 450!

We were bursting at the seams in our Church Street location.  As of January 2014 we are now based at the top of Weaver street in Winooski, just over the bridge from Burlington. We feel right at home in a town built on textiles. Winooski's beautiful mill buildings once drove a thriving textile industry in Winooski and are still the focal point of town on the Winooski River. Our new home is just up the road.

Winooski Mill buildings c.1890

This move gives us much more space to work with and marks a transition to larger scale production that will allow us to begin selling our products to retail stores. We are finally settled in and back up an running and proud to be part of a new textile, sewing and manufacturing hub we are calling Factory 450, composed of 3 independent but complimentary businesses under one roof: Vermont Bosna Cutters, New Duds screen-printers and Queen City Dry Goods. Check out the recent 7days article featuring Factory 450. 

Our new space. Queen City Dry Goods on one side, New Duds on the other:

QCDG

New Duds

and next door, Bosna:

Gearing up to start making t-shirts from scratch!

The Queen City Dry Goods Vermont made t-shirt project is live!  We are currently in the pre-order stage between now and Dec 1, 2013.  Visit the official page for details and see all the great local artist designs that will be printed on our locally sewn t-shirts.
(UPDATE) The t-shirt project successfully met the funding goal!  We are sincerely grateful for all the pre-orders that will help us to launch this operation.  I can't wait to start shipping t-shirts. Thanks! -Matt Renna, QCDG.

Jackets Shipped!

Queen City Dry Goods just shipped out the last of the products that were pre-ordered through our 2012 Kickstarter project.  Here are a few photos of us making the jackets, bags and wallets. Follow the link to the kickstarter update to see more shots.  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2049726758/queen-city-dry-goods-waxed-canvas-racer-jacket-lau/posts/387344

Visit to Vermont factory

I met with Joel over at St J Stitching yesterday to work through some of the details pertaining to manufacturing our racer jacket and took some video with my little point and shoot to share with everybody. You can see us cutting some knit jersey material that will made into t shirts next week for the recently announced Queen City Dry Goods Vermont made t shirt line. Check out my little amateur video, and please help continue to spread the word about the Queen City Dry Goods kickstarter project by posting about it on facebook, twitter and other social media outlets.