Monday, February 16, 2009

It's been a tough week..........

Not much sweater progress this past week. Seems everything I try to create for this masculine design comes out looking too fuffy. I think I'll put it aside and go back to the "Sugarplum" style since that one is meant to look like "whipped cream" . I did spend all day today working on the logo and am happy to say, it's finally perfected. I think the hardest thing about this whole endeavor is not having the money to hire someone to do what I can't and so being the only creative source. Graphic art is not my strong point, so after much researching, sketching and tearing out notebook pages, (and my hair) I finally came up with something I think identifies the brand. Such a relief. Now I can get the business cards, labels etc made and put that task into the "done" column. Vera, my Chinese resource, informed me that the factory won't dye the novelty yarns needed for the counter samples after all, unless I place a bulk order, which I can't do until I know the samples can be made for a price. I told her that we'd just have to substitute other yarns for now in order to get the samples done but that's a week wasted. I'm hearing nothing from the other trading company so I guess I can write them off. Vera could probably do the Tigger sweater but I really don't want to put all my eggs in one basket so it's back to square one in the resource search. And so it goes..........