FROM THE ARCHIVE

I set up Colour My Dreams in November 2017 and it’s certainly changed over the past few years. Initially I was using my design skills to create patterns and illustrations to print onto products like t-shirts & mugs. I soon realised that the lack of transparency with regard to the products I was having printed didn’t sit well with me. I really had no idea where these products were coming from, where they were being made and whether the people making them were treated and paid fairly for their employment.

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This crisis of conscience and my need to have confidence in my suppliers meant that what I was producing could not continue as it was. I decided to ditch the printed products and concentrate on my own crafting skills, rather than my illustrative design skills.

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I started looking for reputable suppliers of wool and yarn that are natural or recycled. I didn’t want to use manmade yarns that would only add to the problem of plastic pollution. If the materials were recycled plastics and I could give them another purpose, that was ok, but using acrylics that had been manufactured from scratch wasn’t the direct I wanted to take.

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As you can imagine, the transformation from 2017 to today has been the result of much soul searching, addressing personal values and decisions that might not always be the cheapest option (in fact, pretty much never), but are the ones that sit well with me and the direction my business needed to take.

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Hope you agree that my decision to be more conscious of my carbon footprint is more important than being able to offer cheap, throw away products. 

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