Red Bird Blue Bird

How awesome is Gocco? I mean, really! You draw a bit, flash a screen, ink it up and start churning out the awesomeness. Easy as pie. Just how easy is pie anyway? Since when did pie get a reputation as being a hussy?

I digress.

I wanted some new stationery, couldn't find anything I liked during the fifteen nano seconds I could be bothered shopping and in the spirit of the crafty chick I can sometimes be, I just whipped some up myself. Well after a quick trip to Office Works for some blank stuff to work with.

I am so into red and pale blue right now, as evidenced by the quilt I'm working on and the colour scheme for the shop. I only used one screen for both prints, I just scraped off the red ink at the end of that run and then re-inked with blue for the envelopes. Messy yes, but it worked just fine, thankyouverymuch.

Shop Talk

So something I haven't really talked about on this blog yet is the fact that I am opening a clothing store with my sister. Six months ago we made a snap decision to do this, we had a weekend to decide whether or not we would place an order with a particular label and start this whole ball rolling. We decided it was all go, we rounded up our assets and a loan and here we are today, about four weeks away from opening our doors to the world.

Part of our decision to this involved starting our own label too. We thought we'd just start out with tee shirts, as many people do. We're revising that idea now as we really can't find cool menswear that we really love, so we're toying with the idea of getting some samples made up and seeing if we go forward with a full menswear range. To the right over there are our very own personal woven fabric labels for our own clothing. Woah.

A year ago, I never would have thunk it.

I am not a fashion girl. I am not obsessed with clothes. How did I end up here? Why am I loving this?

Quilting progress report

Ok, so there are many things wrong my work on this cushion, but you know what? I don't care one bit. I unashamedly love this thing. There's the colour pooling of the dark red stripe across it (because of the way I assembled the stripes, I didn't notice until it was too late), there are wonky seams galore but so what? It's the first time I've quilted any damn thing!

My concerns about the fabric combination (see my last post) were completely unfounded, I love the way they go together (or don't go together as the case may be). As a getting-used-to-the-big-quilt project, it worked just great. Now I just have to start slicing up eleventy squillion more strips and start sewing.