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A new preserve company contacted me through my Facebook page wanting a fresh and modern, yet painterly logo. Pretty much my favourite brief! I got a little carried away, churning out roughs to choose between before working up the final... 
A directional rethink meant that the company was going to take a more Chilli based approach. Back to the drawing board foas it were! 
And the final choice... 
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A lovely lady got in touch to see if I could create a laptop bag out of KateMoby fabric... Some designing and international ordering later and, yes I can! My most useful tool was a cereal packet "laptop" I made to match the size - it's nerve wracking making something to fit a specific object if you don't have said object in your possession!  The final design incorporated a button closure, zip front pocket, lining and padding, canvas and leather handles and a good sprinkling of Beech Leaves! Not a bad foray into construction. Personally I'm most chuffed how the button I made lines up with the pattern so nicely. How I did it:  Do you have a bespoke project you'd love to see brought to life? Get in touch!
A lovely lady mistook my hand-printed fabric buttons for earrings, which I thought was a jolly marvellous idea! So here is my tiny jewellery range, which you may have spied if you'd popped in to say hi at the Christmas markets last year. Always fun to design new packaging too! So far available in sets grey, blue and birds in "Midnight" in the shop! Each set will have two large and two small pairs. The earrings are silver plated and nickel free, as are the rings.         Everyone likes things to match, so here are some rings, also available in the shop, so far in large (30mm button) and small (15mm button) birds in "Midnight!" The rings are adjustable and silver plated, and of course, hand printed.         I've asked the lovely people of Granthams to print my charity photo cards, as I wasn't entirely happy with the photo finish in their current state. I'm chuffed to bits with how they've turned out! They're on 350gsm silk card, which for those non-technically minded, just means they're super lovely and extra sturdy. For those who placed orders before on the old paper, I'll send you your order of the new finish, just because:)   I've been dabbling with screen and lino printing new designs onto fabric (more of which will be coming soon!) This has generated a lovely pile of pattern fragments, which were crying out to be loved. So, ta-da, here are the very first Kate Moby buttons! My button maker may be my new favourite thing ever. If you agree, pop to the shop! So far sets are available in grey and blue. 
Here is the bundle winging its way to the lucky winner of my birthday inspired giveaway. Sad to have missed out? I'm sure there will be another chance in the future - it's nearly Christmas after all! If you can't wait that long, everything is available in my shop. 
Details: Hand printed Tote Bag - Hedgerow Seeds in Summer Sky
Water Droplets Panoramic Greetings Card Scilly Skipping Stones Square Greetings Card Thin Bamboo Dip Pen Hand printed Buttons - Grey Collection As part of my new product investigation, which hopefully will be coming soon, I wanted to produce fabric labels to be attached to textile objects like cushions, bags, purses etc. I was pretty chuffed that they worked out so well, so I thought I'd spread the love with this little how to tutorial... 
Step One I bought fabric tape in white from the land of the internet (eBay) that was wide enough for the design I had in mind. In my case, this was 25mm, so the edges of my labels always look neat and don't require any time consuming stitching etc. 
Step Two Using Indesign, I created a repeated design of my labels. On the first take I included my website, but this was far too finely detailed for the fabric to cope with, so I ended up keeping it simple and legible. The great thing about Indesign is that it's very controllable to the tiniest measurement, allowing for plenty of fine tuning in the printing stage. Whilst designing, you might want to consider making your design larger than the ribbon width to allow for some wiggle room in the printing stage. As my labels are going to be looped over, each individual label has text upside down as well as right side up. 
Step Three Next I used normal sticking tape to attach the ribbon at both ends to a piece of normal A4 paper. For extra security I put some double sided tape underneath the ribbon to make sure it was really secure and straight. Then I hit print! (Please note this is a tiny bit of a gamble, and I take no responsibility if your printer chews it up and spits it out in a huff...) It took a few takes of fine tuning to work out the exact millimetre placement of the ribbon to make it repeatable and guaranteed, so it's worth not cutting a really long piece first time. Having an understanding of which way round your printer feeds really helps with this! 
Step Four The fabric is fairly damp with ink when it first shoots out, so I let mine dry for a good hour, and then ironed it very thoroughly to make the ink set. Again, the success of this depends on your printer and the ink you use - it's definitely worth doing a test piece and washing it to check your ink will stay to avoid heartache! Then it's just a case of cutting up your labels, folding them and stitching them to anything and everything your heart desires! 
Good luck! Let me know how you get on!
I've been doing some work for Create Publishing - ebook layout and cover design, and some advertising key frames... It sounds strange, but it was really weird working in an office rather than my own little studio - great risk of watercolours and computers not being a match in heaven! Which is why I've dabbled with more digitally produced imagery than usual. Now I know how to publish books for e-readers, I'm hoping to finally get round to writing a travel book. Please nag me about it! 
As a gift for visiting speakers, the Plymouth Design Society liked to present them with a bottle of Plymouth Gin in a unique box that represented Plymouth. I volunteered my services to design such a box, with Smeaton's Tower as my inspiration! A spot of screen printing...  ... a dab of layout design....  and ta-da!  I later found out that the particular Designers that received my box were in fact big shot drinks packaging designers. Had I known this previously, I would have run a mile!
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