Was that the Fall season?

Well, after 60 straight days in the workshop hammering out team uniforms, I'm getting close to 'catching up'. Not that I would ever want to be totally caught up because that would indicate a lack of orders - but I'd sure like to be able to ship something the same week someone orders it!   Perhaps wishful thinking for the moment.   I am, however mopping up orders that are overdue to customers that have been very patient (thank you to any of you who happen to read this).

For those of you looking for gear to trim the pain of winter rowing, check back next week for a batch of new pogie designs.  I believe strongly that there's no better pogie out there than my dri-pogies and I'm taking that to a new level of visual design.  Hopefully my new designs will help people keep track of their pogies too.  It's such a hassle to lose your gear and distinct designs can help make it easy to see if someone else is using your stuff!  Photos to come soon!

I'll take a quick paragraph to thank Kerry Poulsen who attended the Fall regattas here on Vancouver Island for me.  She's a great people-person and in addition to hauling around my tent and inventory to weekend races, she worked hard in the workshop production frenzy to help get customer orders out the door.    As we enter winter, my hope is to work with her to help her interface with customers that I don't regularly reach - local people and particularly paddlers.

If anyone is craft oriented (pretty much everyone is here at the house of Row West), David Landis is in the last days of a Kickstarter push.  You can check him out if you search for Desktop Gremlins - Kickstarter.   We really enjoy his whimsical and clever paper-craft designs.

Horizontal stripes

Ummm....

So, as a resident in the small township of Shawnigan Lake, I sometimes get requests from the neighbours for custom clothing for sports such as motocross.  If you don't recognize this design, apparently you need to watch Talladega Nights (or so the recipient of this jersey informs me).

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Bluebody

Custom order for a full body suit including tight fitting hood and booties.  Hockey fan perhaps?

The biological Trinity is complete.

These designs, while challenging, have been very fun to work on.   I've spent a fair bit of late-night time on the computer getting them to fit into the patterns for unisuits, singlets, and eventually shirts (more difficult).  I think a full body suit is possible, but wouldn't likely be a popular product.   Aside from fun, I do have to balance commercial viability with my efforts since I'm using a lot of time, dye sublimation materials and fabric.

This should be the last anatomy design and then I've got other science themed ideas in the works along with some more whimisical 'pretty' graphics.  

I'm not sure what to call this one yet.  I was thinking about 'No Guts No Glory' .

The sleeves were hard to do...

The popular feedback of this design in particular has led me to try translating it into a shirt.   Merging front and back images of the humerous with clavicle and scapular attachments.... not so fun.  But the end product is pretty good.

Going a bit deeper...

Continuing the exploration of the rowing body....