Friday 1 May 2009

Hoody Top




Horizons is an outdoor pursuits and socialising club offering a wide range of activities each week to people across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire (www.horizonspursuits.co.uk).

We’ve just produced these hooded tops for them. The challenge was to take the logo that we designed for them a while ago and turn it into a decent stitch pattern. This involves converting all the colours used into suitable thread colours, making sure that the lettering works (e.g. you can’t have big gaps) and actually designing how the stitches will create the logo. Also because the logo was going on the reverse of the top it needed to be large. This resulted in a stitch pattern that consisted of 50,000 stitches. Of course these are sewn but machine, not my aunt Ethel, but is still difficult to produce large, complex stitch patterns such as this. However the results were great as you can see.

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