Heather has been working hard at getting two of her designs on hats.
Her Flowering Deer skull from the Memento Mori series will now be offered as embroidery on a comfortable baseball cap. We received our first product sample, and once a few more adjustments will be made we will be ready to go to production and offered for sale by the end of May.
When Heather is working on her designs and products, her workflow tends to cover several designs and product ideas at once. That way she can be in the artist mindset doing the drawings. She’ll take a break, and then do any touching up that might need to be done. From there depending on the products and designs often several very different designs and products will intersect at the product sample stage and be ready for review about the same time.
Which brings up her next product featuring her Foxy Fox and Make a Wish Mouse on the same hat. This will be the first time Heather has taken two very different art pieces and brought them together. They were both originally drawn with watercolor, scanned, and processed digitally. For embroidery, she needs to take her scans and turn them into a digital file that can be processed by the embroidery machine, and this takes time and precision, often times the file needs to be reworked so the image turns out correctly with the correct colors.
The end product features the Mouse blowing a dandelion on the Fox. Their story is for your imagination. Is the mouse teasing the fox? Or is the mouse trying to get the foxes attention?
Either way, it’s a cute scene that will be available for purchase by the end of May. No adjustments were needed on our product review so Heather is excited she doesn’t have to rework the stitching file. She was able to get the detail needed on her first draft.
Usually during her working, she will step away for long walks by the river, which are needed to take as a break from staring at paper and screens.
Often these walks gives her more ideas than she has paper and art supplies to capture. More work to come.
