The Jansdotter universe has shifted once more—this time to Brooklyn, New York. “My husband’s family lives back East, and the trip to visit my family in Sweden now takes much less time. I reconnect with them as often as I can,” especially now that she has a baby son.
“It’s hard being a working mom,” Lotta admits. “I have to schedule in my creative time.” But when she needs to sit down and work, she doesn’t waste a second. “I have a lot of sketchbooks to fall back on and I often turn to them for ideas. I keep a visual library on hand to inspire, pictures torn from magazines, even if it’s a photo of a woman’s haircut. Inspiration is so abstract. People always ask me what I was thinking when I drew a particular design, but I like to say, ‘What do you think when you see it?’”

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