A Few Good Bananas

04/20/2026

New and fabulous clay gnomes with so much character by Happy Accidents Studio By Cari ❤️ All the special touches and details show how much love goes into making each one of them. Come see in person.

Come on down the stairs. Our April hours are Wednesday-Saturday Noon-5pm and Sundays Noon-4pm 😊

04/03/2026

The sun is out! Headed to with these vintage barkcloth eyeglass cases tomorrow. Perfect for your sunglasses.

01/25/2026

As fiber artists, we’re used to working with reclaimed materials. When we find a piece with rips, stains, holes, or tears, we don’t just see what it is, we see what it could become.
We wash it. We cut away what can’t be saved. We mend, patch, and stitch it back into something strong, functional, and beautiful.

Right now, our country feels like that imperfect piece.

So many people who came before us already did the hard work, the brave work, the patient work to move things forward. We want to honor that, preserve what matters, and keep building on it.

We still believe there’s hope here… but hope isn’t passive. It’s something we make, together, one careful stitch at a time.

01/21/2026

It was 7 degrees in Ithaca today, and this sweet woman came to STAR TREE STUDIO expressly to buy a warm hat from us. Fleece lined wool hat, what everyone needs when it is below freezing day after day. Hope you are all staying cozy.

12/29/2025

It’s official! Peg is all moved in and ready to service all brands of sewing machines at our studio in Skaneateles Falls. Give her a call 315-744-5310

07/01/2025

Nona spent her last day in NY working with us at the studio. She might live 3,000 miles away but she will always be A Banana!

06/27/2025

We love how anything goes with vintage crazy quilts! Colors, shapes, textures …. Just kind of a free for all. Found a partially finished quilt in our travels that seemed like a perfect fit for this purse pattern.

06/07/2025

Lots of other great little finds at Vintage Bling And Other Fabulous Things, too!

Does your favorite teacher, bus driver, custodian, office staff, school nurse or anyone I missed have a dog? And might they like to look stylish while doing their duty of picking up the dootie? 🤣 well these fab bags made by ‘A Few Good Bananas’ will make a perfect gift for them!

Come on down the stairs. We are open 7 days a week. Monday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 10:30am-5pm and Sundays are 12pm-4pm ☺️

02/10/2025

It’s fun to see what our friends come up with when we invite them to the studio to design their own embellished jackets.

02/04/2025

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