will it be okay?

 As I have mentioned before, I have thought long and hard about who my customer is.  What will be unique about my ties - well made with messages about feminism....if anyone wants 'well made' they can buy them on the High Street...if they have subtle 'messages' would anyone wear them?  If the messages are subtle they won't be interesting enough for exhibition pieces?  This has been my problem all along.  Add this problem too - in my effort to show a variety of processes - digital prints in different materials, colourways and scales; screen prints, different materials and scales....I am concerned that I have produced a range that - although they all share the same motifs - are disparate and the exhibition will be messy.  I think I will have to group the ties according to process/design/material for the exhibition.

Anyway, I have decided to use embroidery stitches on the seams of my ties - they are hand made and each one is completely unique.  I am not going to mimic factory made mass produced ties.  So there! 

Yesterday I skyped Craftivist event to a group of six people.   Three women, three men.  One man joined in (the first man to agree to take part, others have declined) and because another felt left out he joined in my drawing/writing his message.  Feedback was that it did promote conversation and the youngest woman found it enabled her to talk more easily to an elderly relative because they were sharing the sewing experience.