"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge."

— Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

Designer: BETSY OLMSTED

MS Textile Print Designer Betsy Olmsted, creates her original artwork prints and repeat patterns by using different medias, such as gouache, water colour and spray paint alongside pen and pencil. Her everyday surroundings are her source of inspiration. In producing her products she works to make them as sustainable as possible.

Visit her website here.

Tonight, my very last fresher's week has begun, and I'm at home. As for me, all the fun starts tomorrow. From not being excited until this week has made my excitement double. Bring on tomorrow please!

Sunday: Flat Party
Tuesday: Mosh
Wednesday: School Disco
Friday: Vintage Disco

Have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to feel SO old with all the fresher's around... My fourth year at DMU.

Designer: SKINNY LAMINX

Skinny LaMinx is the company label of illustrator and designer: Heather Moore. These are her latest designs for textile prints.

Visit her website here.

Grasmere Gingerbread

This has to be the best, and my favourite gingerbread ever. So when my brother bought us some from his and Lou's trip to the Lake District, just as I was having a cup of tea. Perfection!

Designer: TALI FURMAN

Tali Furman is an print designer from Israel. Currently, she works as a freelance designer, creating prints for a collection of fashion companies, as well as for home textiles.

Visit her website here.

Designer: BUBBLE & TWEET

Bubble and Tweet are a Yorkshire based design duo, who both previously designed for the high street. Both sharing a passion for pattern and colour, they joined forces to create a collection of hand printed products. 

Find them online at not on the high street here.

Designer: HANNA WERNING

Hanna Werning is an independent designer with work spreading over a collection of different disciplines, from communication design to illustration. She has a great interest in patterns and colours. These are examples of wallpapers she designed for the company Boråstapeter.

Visit her website.

Designer: THE SHADY LADY

The shady lady aka Charlotte Gale, is a graphic designer who designs beautiful surface pattern designs to be transferred into light shades for your home. She mixes her passion for pattern making with influences taken from looking into the current trends within the gift and home ware industry, to ensure her designs fit into the commercial market but to also be desirable. 

Visit her website here.

Designer: MISSPRINT

MissPrint are a duo that design and produce a collections of designs for use towards wallpapers, fabrics and interior items. All designs start out as hand drawings, taking inspiration from their surroundings, such as nature set into an urban surrounding. Their products are design and made with environment in mind, creating as little negative impact as possible.

Visit their website here.

I've also created a Facebook page, but I'm very confused by it all. Have discovered my phone can sign into two or more Twitter accounts at once, which is going to be incredibly useful in my quest to not stress out about keeping three different things up to date, as well as doing my work. Whey!

NEW BLOG: Knit Stitch & Print

Another blog?! I hear you cry!

I know, I know I look like some kind of blog addict, but do not fear. This one is for a perfectly good reason I swear, so hear me out. I didn't like the fact my uni work was all mixed in with my little crafty bits I do on the side on LOVELY THINGS. So I've decided, as its my final year and I'm going to be focused on the same subject matter all year I would create a new blog which will solely document my works progression throughout the year, right up until the degree show. And it will give me some where more focused to send people to look at my work.

So KNIT STITCH & PRINT is go-go!

Click below, or the picture at the side.

(Also, it has it's own twitter page. How swish!)

Willow - Sweater

Such a simple yet very effective set. Good song too.

Designer: GARY BIRKS

For Gary Birks, his first graduating job was along side the iconic label of Wedgewood. For his pieces, he works with the classic ceramic forms, bringing them up to modern day with bright typography, simplistic patterns and graphic features. All these together create: "Modern mugs for 21st century tea drinkers."

Visit his website here.

Dusty Ears.