Made by Hand Feature in Embroidery Magazine

This month we were featured in Embroidery Magazine as part of Made by Hand which we will be exhibiting in next month.

We also have our work featured at the Shirehall Gallery as part of their Christmas craft show and Rob Ryan exhibition.

Christmas is coming, and we are selling a selection of Christmas cards through our Etsy and Folksy shops - 5 cards for £8 Bargain !

Rhys Thomas - Photography Exhibition

We are having an exhibition of photographs by Rhys Thomas at our studio in October. The exhibition will run from 11th of October until the 12th November. The private view will be on Saturday 9th of October between 3pm and 7pm if you want to pop by.

You can view a high res version of the poster here.

G Magazine

Our Kokeshi Bag was featured in G Magazine last month, an Australian magazine about everything green. A Pdf of the page can bee seen here (we haven't got an actual copy).

Still ploughing our way through print work over here but we have managed to make some new purses that are available on etsy. Only a limited amount are available as they were made with a paper cut-out stencil rather than a photo stencil!

And our floral purse is now available in a lovely bright blue colour with a matching zip, only on etsy at the moment.

These are the first photos form our new homemade light box.

New Stockists.

Our products are now available at The Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy, Butterfly Rooms, The Green Apple and Graig Wen.

In other news....our Welsh 'Happy Birthday' card was featured on the Super Cute Kawaii Blog.

Amongst all the printing work we are trying to get with designing new products that will hopefully include Christmas decorations, badges and glow in the dark kids posters!

Gwyl Arall & Gwyl Gardd Goll

Gwyl Arall and Gwyl Gardd Goll take place in North Wales over the weekend. Gwyl Arall takes place in Caernarfon from Friday to Saturday and includes music by Race Horses and Cate Le Bon and talks by Howard Marks, the full line-up and tickets are available on the Gwyl Arall website.

As part of the festival we will be selling our products ar Turf Square in Caernarfon on Saturday the 24th of July between 10.30 and 5.30. Buddug Humphreys and Jessie Chorley, bOtwm and sbAZmo will also be selling their products.

Gwyl Gardd Goll takes place in Y Faenol near Bangor on Sunday the 25th of July and we will also have a stall at the event. The line-up includes Richard James and Meic Stevens. Visit the website for more info and the full line-up.

Made by Hand.

We have been selected to take part in the Made by Hand, a brand new craft and design fair taking place in Tredegar House near Newport from the 3rd - 5th of December 2010. There are 140 stalls and there will be loads of workshops, demonstrations and family entertainment.

We went down to the 'Preparing to Sell' talk last Thursday and got loads of useful information and realised how much planning and preparing we have to do before December!

More printing workshops

We held another textile screen-printing workshop last Saturday at our studio. Here are some photos of the day.

Cutting out stencils from paper.

Above are some photos of the finished stencils.

And some photos of the finished prints all of which turned out amazing.

If your interested in attending one of our workshop the next one will be held on the 18th of September book early to avoid disappointment.

Birds.

We keep on getting small birds flying in to the studio, maybe looking for somewhere to nest. Here's a little Blue Tit dreaming of the outside world, they do all manage to find their way out eventually.

We've just finished printing some large orders as well. One for our own products for Annog....

T-shirt for the Wychwood Festival...

and a smaller order for the Glastonbury Dental Team....

New Stockist and other news.

We are super busy at the moment ploughing our way through various print jobs for festivals, bands etc.......so not much time for designing and printing our own stuff. We have found a bit of time to start work on the designs for a new range of customizable wedding invites, more on that soon! We ran a few new baby grows a couple of weeks ago as well, only available on Etsy at the moment.

Oriel Mostyn re-opened last Saturday after being closed for a few years to be refurbished. They have a selection of our textile products available in the shop.

We found out recently that we had been accepted in to the Made by Hand craft fair in Tredegar House near Newport which will take place in December, gives us plenty of time to prepare.

Creative Boom

I was inspired by the textile printing workshop's we held last month and decided to use the paper stencil technique myself and make a purse, here is the end result. I made a few which I will be selling through our etsy shop.

We have also been featured in Creative Boom - Wrexham !

Workshop

Our textile printing workshop last month went really well, here are a few photos.

we have some more dates this month Saturday 15th and Wednesday 26th contact Jennie if your interested.

Printing Kokeshi Bags

A video of Dyf screen-printing some Organic EarthPositive bags with a Kokeshi Dolls print.

Our new website should have been finished ages ago but we've been having some technical problems. Everything is almost sorted now - just need to test a couple more things, then we will hopefully upload it before the end of the week.

Printed Babies Clothing.

Just finished printing a run of new baby-grows and babies baseball t-shirts. There are two colourways available in the elephant baby-grows and one available in the whale print. They are all printed on lovely soft organic cotton.

We will be printing more designs soon.

Spring Workshops

We are holding screen printing workshops ! the first of which is going to be held on the 24th of april 2010.

New Machine

Our new conveyor dryer machine has arrived! its caused a bit of chaos in the studio!

Charlie from Panther Dryers in Norwich delivered and set it up for us yesterday.

It will make curing ink loads faster.

We have been busy re designing the website which will be ready very soon and I am in the process of organising paper stencil screen printing workshops which will be held at the end of this month.

We've also been printing some new design..

Tim & Sam

Our new conveyor dryer is almost ready so should be here within the next week or so, we just need to sort out some electrics here first.

Above are some t-shirts we printed for Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam band with Tim and Sam to accompany the release of their debut album 'Life Stream' which is released on May 3rd. The album and merchandise is available through their online store.

Artwork is by Peter Hope-Parry.

Pierhead Sessions

We recently printed some t-shirts and sweatshirts for the Pierhead Sessions in Cardiff. The event takes place in the Pierhead Building in Cardiff from the 4-6th of March to mark the 10th year of the National Assembly for Wales.

The event includes a lecture by George Monbiot, music by Huw Stephens and comedy from Bennett Arron amongst various other events. For a full programme visit the Pierhead Website.

Branding and design is by Greenland Design.

Hidden Moves

We recently printed some t-shirts for Hidden Moves designed by Welsh artist/ designer Rhys Owens. Both designs are available with free postage from his website where you can also buy prints of his work.

We are currently re-designing and updating our website to include information about some new services we will be providing. We will hopefully have it up and running within the next week or so, once all the glitches are sorted.

It's been a while....

Its been a while since we posted anything on our blog. Have been sorting out loads of paper work which got on top of us a bit. Have been doing a fair bit of printing as well including these Cardboard Kid t-shirts for Gareth Hacking that are available in our online shop.

A while back we applied for a grant from the Local Investment Fund to purchase a new conveyor dryer. The money has finally come through today so have ordered the dryer today and it should be here in 3-4 weeks.

In December we won an award as well; we were first in the Artist/ Craft Worker of the year category in the Gwynedd Taste and Talent awards