I can only tell you it looks ok. I am giving it to a friend on Thanksgiving week so I really am not in a position to offer much of a review.
Lavender Bouquet Embroidered Sweatshirt — Still Breathes of July
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Embroidered lavender bouquet · left chest · 9.5 oz brushed fleece · five garment-dyed colors · Comfort Colors 1566 · real thread, stitched into the fleece
Embroidered Crewneck · Five Colors · Designed in Colorado
Still Breathes of July
A small bouquet of lavender, stitched where a pocket would go.
Shown in Orchid — the color this one was designed around.
The stitching up close on Orchid. Thread, not ink — it catches the light.
A small bunch of lavender, cut and gathered, stems together as though it has just been lifted out of the row. The bouquet is embroidered in four colors of thread — a deep violet and a paler lilac for the flower spikes, and two greens for the stems and the narrow leaves — and placed on the left chest, about where a pocket would sit. It is small on purpose. From across a room it is a slip of purple; up close it is lavender specifically, each spike built from separate little stitches the way the real buds sit stacked up the stem.
The Design
Small embroidered emblem on the left chest — not a large front print, not a back print
Subject: a gathered bouquet of cut lavender (Lavandula), stems bound together
Style: clean folk-botanical shape — the spikes, the stems, the leaves, nothing extra
Technique: machine embroidery, stitched directly into the fleece in four thread colors — a real raised emblem, not a printed one and not a glued patch
No words or lettering anywhere in the design

Orchid, worn. Lavender on lilac is the pairing the whole design was built for — four more colors in the gallery above.
Lavender keeps its scent long after it has stopped looking like anything. The scent oil is not held in the petals — it sits in microscopic glands on the calyx, the little green cup each floret grows out of, which is why you cut the stems just as the buds begin to open rather than waiting for a full show, and why a bundle that has gone grey and brittle in a wardrobe still releases the whole of July when you crush it between finger and thumb. The color is the part that goes. The reason you cut it is the part that stays.
Orchid, laid flat — a soft lilac that lets the violet thread sit warm rather than loud.
The Story Behind It
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Every July she cuts a bunch and hangs it upside down from the hook by the kitchen window, where it dries over about three weeks and drops a small amount of itself on the floor the whole time.
When the new one is ready the old one moves to the wardrobe, and whatever was in the wardrobe moves to the drawer, and whatever was in the drawer she is honestly not sure about — there are bundles in that house going back further than she can account for, each one greyer than the last and every one of them still working.
Her mother did it. Her mother's mother did it, in a different country, in a house nobody in the family has seen. It is not a tradition anyone sat down and decided to keep. It is just that once you have had a cupboard that smells like that, an ordinary cupboard is no longer acceptable.
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Wear it for the bundle hanging in the kitchen right now.
A thoughtful gift for gardeners and herb growers, for anyone who dries flowers, keeps a lavender bundle in the linen cupboard or stops to run a hand along a hedge of it, and for anyone who likes their botanical on the chest small and real rather than printed large. Embroidery reads as quality in a way a print never quite does, and the sweatshirt is for the half of the year the garden is doing nothing — a July flower to get you through February.
Details
Small embroidered lavender bouquet on the left chest — not a large front print, not a back print
Relaxed unisex fit, side-seamed body, roomy through the chest
A pullover crewneck — no hood, no zip and no front pocket
1x1 ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband; rolled forward shoulder
Twill-taped back neck with woven label and back neck patch
Five colors — Orchid, Butter, Chambray, White and Chalky Mint — S to 3XL, with the size run varying slightly by color
Ready-made design — choose a color and size, nothing to upload or customize
Designed in Colorado · Made to order in the USA, embroidered and shipped in two to five business days
Fabric
Comfort Colors 1566 garment-dyed crewneck sweatshirt
80% ring-spun US cotton, 20% polyester, 9.5 oz heavyweight — substantial, and warm enough to be the layer rather than something under one
Three-end fleece with a 100% cotton face and a brushed fleece interior, warmer than a lighter French terry
Dyed after the garment is sewn, using salt-free pigment dyes; OEKO-TEX certified
Holds its shape through the wash, with almost no shrinkage at home
The embroidery will not crack, peel or fade. It is stitched through the fleece with polyester thread — no patch, no glue, nothing sitting on the surface to pull loose
Choosing a Color
The bouquet is violet, lilac and green on five pale garment-dyed grounds. One of them is the obvious answer.
Orchid — the one to get. A soft lilac, and the color the design was built around. Lavender thread on a lavender ground is tonal rather than contrasting, so the bouquet reads as part of the sweatshirt instead of an emblem stuck on it, and the green stems are what your eye finds first. It is also the only ground here that does what the real plant does — purple on purple, the way a row of it looks from the far end of the garden. If you are buying one, buy this one.
Butter. A warm pale yellow. The highest-contrast pairing of the five and the most cheerful — violet against yellow is a proper complementary clash, and the bouquet jumps.
Chambray. A soft powder blue, cool behind a cool flower. The most restrained of the five.
White. Cleanest of all — every stitch of every spike reads, like a botanical plate on paper.
Chalky Mint. A pale, dusty green-blue that picks up the stems rather than the flowers, so the whole thing reads greener and more garden-ish.
Garment-dyed colors look softer and more muted in person than on a screen, and each piece varies slightly. That lived-in tone is part of the charm.
Sizing
True to size with a relaxed unisex fit. For a closer fit, size down one; for an oversized look, size up one. Between sizes? We'll make it right, free.
Adult sizes only, S to 3XL.
Care
Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Avoid bleach and high heat, and don't iron directly over the embroidery — press around it, or from the inside.
The stitching, in motion.
Cut in July. Still working.
The Known Pack Promise
Wearable Art for the Nature Lover.
Beautiful things from the natural world, on a sweatshirt you'll reach for all season long.
Wearable Nature Art
Butterflies, birds, wildflowers, and the quiet stories behind them. Detailed designs in the spirit of vintage botanical plates, each with a true fact from nature on its page.
Soft Comfort Colors Fleece
Printed on garment-dyed Comfort Colors fleece, 80% ring-spun cotton, broken in from the first wear and softer with every wash. Relaxed, roomy, and made to be your cold-morning favorite.
Why we choose it →Made With a Purpose
Money is set aside from every order to help protect the trails and wild places our designs are drawn from, so the meadows keep blooming for the next generation.


