MUMBLE TIKES!!!

Here's an extremely exciting development for Mumble Tease! A new line of KIDS CLOTHING!!! So far I've only got the two designs, but we'll see how these go at some upcoming markets, and if things go as well as I think they might, look out for lots of kiddies stuff in the future. Such cuteness! 

Beekeeper Shirts

These are some shirts I designed and printed for the band Beekeeper, who are playing a show at the Palamino in Calgary, next Thursday, October the 27th. I quite like how this one turned out! Go check out the show and buy a shirt!

Scene and Heard

Look! My first shirts printed in four colours on my lovely new four colour printing press dealie!!! This is very exciting! They are for a club at the university that lets students know about arts events around Calgary and provides discounted tickets. It was a great chance to test out the new equipment! I think they turned out pretty well... 

And then below are the logo and some variations on it that I provided to go along with the new shirts! 

My first attempt at four color silk-screening!

This is a very very exciting post indeed! For my birthday this year, I was given probably the most wonderful gift I've ever gotten! A FOUR COLOR SILK SCREEN PRESS!!!!! And now, after a couple of months of looking at it and wondering how the heck to use it, I have finally made my very first prints! 

This one was done on paper with some inks I've never used before, and I definitely need to work out some kinks, but wow am I excited! I can't wait to try it out on fabric! Some pretty sweet four color Mumble Tease creations are in the works!!!

A third shirt design for Sidney York

This is the third design I did for Sidney York. I was at her show a couple of weeks ago out in Canmore for what was the best show I've been at in a while. It was in a great venue called The Glue Factory which is above the White Horse Cafe. If you're in Canmore ever, check it out!

Monkey Unicorn Pullovers

These are some experimental sweaters I've recently done. I had a great time using the new fabrics I got at a sale a while ago. There's a church near me that has a yearly fabric sale where all the members bring in fabric they no longer want, and all proceeds go to Grandmothers in Africa. There's a whole basement full of fabric with lots of old ridiculous things that you wouldn't be able to find in a store. And great bargains!!

Anyways, to make these one of a kind sweaters, I first silk-screened the silly creature onto the plain fabric, then sewed together the plain and complementary patterned fabric, and then sewed that onto the sweater itself. Time consuming. I really like how they turned out though! 

I want to adopt one for myself, but I'm having trouble deciding which one I like the best. I kind of want them all... 

New Mumble Tease Designs in all their colorful glory!!

OK! So here's the four new designs that I've printed, shown on all their various shirt/color combinations. The v-necks are an exciting new addition!! There's a fifth one that's exclusively for sweaters at this point that I'm still working on! I'm excited!

NEW SHIRTS NEW SHIRTS NEW SHIRTS!!!

Oh boy and I am so excited!!! These are a few of the new designs I've just finished printing for a sale me and Mumble Tease will be at this weekend. 

The top one is a collaboration I've been working on with another local designer, Stellar Hoods, who make these neat hood/scarf things. The project is for the Canadian Cancer Society with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the organization. 

And the other designs are just silly Mumble Tease goodness!! And I've got a few more designs printed and ready to go as well and other colour combinations, but I'll be posting pictures of them later. If you want to see them sooner, come out to Make It at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Calgary this weekend. Woohoo!!

T-shirts for Sidney York

I recently did a rather large order (465 shirts! WOW!) for a friend who's got a new album and will be touring across Canada in the spring (May I think...) to promote it. Her name is SIDNEY YORK and you should visit her website and try and check out one of her upcoming shows and buy a shirt! (My sister Sheryl is even playing her oboe and singing at the shows! So come out and heckle the oboe player!!! Heeheehee...)

It's the largest print run I've ever done, and although I'm only 2/3 of the way through, it went really well! I'll be printing a third design on another 200 blue shirts some time in the nearish future! Exciting!

More Quotes

I was selling shirts and art and cards at the Market Collective at the beginning of December, and made up three new quotes on fabric. I even sold two of them! And I have a stack of wood waiting to be wrapped in fabric and several pieces of fabric that are ready to go. Lots to do!

Oh man, sewing on the flower in the first one was pretty tricky. I'm really impressed with how it turned out. If you look closely, that white line around the edge is the thread. Done on a machine. Very slowly and carefully....

HOODIES!!!!

Mumble Tease now has some hoodies!!!!! I'm very excited about these lovely sweaters. They turned out really really well! And I've even printed them in two different colour combinations! Okay, so I've actually had these printed for quite a while, but man has it taken a long time to get some pictures taken and all that jazz!

Cuddles are awesome! Is there a better way to spend a chilly morning than cuddling? I don't think so.... Except maybe snowboarding... I have to give credit to my dear friend Sean-o for coming up with the text and for being an inspiration for the design. What a cute and cuddly group of snakes!!!

And of course, they are for sale on mumble tease's etsy shop: www.mumbletease.etsy.com

More Quotes on Fabric Art Dealies

Here's a couple more experiments using silk-screened patterns and sewn on elements to capture the mood of some inspirational quotes. Fun stuff. It's fabric stretched over a 8x12 inch piece of 3/4 inch plywood. I can see many directions to take this kind of thing. So much to do, so little time....

Reprints of old designs

There's been lots of interest in some of my old designs that I only have printed on women's cotton shirts, so I'm reprinting them on unisex cotton and women's tri-blend shirts!

I really really like how the colours turned out on these ones! I must say, it's hard not to take one of each design and colour for myself! Restraint Heather, RESTRAINT!

Just a reminder, all the shirts are for sale at www.mumbletease.etsy.com