And slow. I then had to do masses of ironing before loading the fabric onto my bike and heading down the cycle track to Shoreham and the London train.

Once I got me and my fabric to Ivo Printing factory in Southall, all the lengths had to be pinned out on our lovely long printing table – 50m!! This very time-consuming

so next time I will sew them together first. The screens were them squared (so they don’t print crooked!), the repeat set and the colour checked. My walnut dye had come

up darker than last time so Andy our colour matcher adjusted my mustard colour – brought it up so that it had more oopmh. He is the master of colour.

Shelley and Monique then got on with printing the lengths  – 3 colour ways across four different base cloths. Quite a juggling act with lots of washing up between prints (sorry girls and thank you Dave).

Because they are so organised and check every detail – they did a great job and I was very happy.

Washing up the screens is one of the wettest and coldest jobs in the factory. Jack’s other job is slightly more glamorous as a DJ…

I then sewed up the printed fabric so that it could be baked in the huge baker at the end of the flatbed machine. This is a truly terrifying moment

as all my precious fabric disappears into this the massive boiling rollers… then appears again. Material does get lost and Podge has to climb inside and fish it out – scary!!

Finally, the material gets inspected to spot any print flaws – Rob passed my print. Thank you Rob!

Now I cycle with the fabric to Beverley who will transform it into beautiful things.

The final fabric is the product of lots of hard work by me, Beverley and by ALL the team at Ivo’s. THANKYOU – I couldn’t do it with you!