When I started this blog just over a year ago, with the aim of documenting my attempts to start up a fabric line, I thought that blogging was the one thing I actually already knew about. In past day jobs, I’ve run blogs for big online companies. Blogs that are listed in Google News; blogs … Continue reading Things I’ve learnt: blogging
Things I’ve learnt
Things I’ve learnt: screen printing
I have a new love! It’s screen printing! Screen printing was the very first thing I wrote on my Things to Learn list, that lengthy tome of everything I need to do to get this fabric business started. I want to print onto T-shirts, babygrows, bags, cushions… ...you know, the usual old things. But I … Continue reading Things I’ve learnt: screen printing
Things I’ve learnt: transferring images to fabric
I’ve got a confession to make. I started this blog with all the best intentions. As I wrote, in my first ever post four months ago, I was planning on “building a fabric empire” – creating new fabric designs, making beautiful things from the newly-printed fabric and, oh yes, actually starting up a business to … Continue reading Things I’ve learnt: transferring images to fabric
Things I’ve learnt: photography
The short version of this post would be: not enough. If you've seen any of my other blog posts (if not, why not? Go and take a look now...) you'll have seen I am far from the most proficient photographer. I was asking my other half what he thought of my blog photos just last … Continue reading Things I’ve learnt: photography