Friday, June 26, 2009

New design printed and ready

I finally finished printing the new "Love Grows" design and they came out great! It took me a little longer than I wanted because of the tricky way the design flows onto the back of the shirt. I had to create a special insert to lift the back of the shirt to get a level printing surface. But they're all done now and avalable online. Not only are the new shirts extremely soft but I used water-based inks so the ink is really soft too, you can't even feel the ink when you run your hands over it.

I also reprinted the First Edition shirt. Now in charcoal gray and white. Also now online.
And you can get both these shirts in Women's and Men's sizes S - XL. The Women's sizes are just a little smaller overall a with shorter sleves and sholders and a slightly wider neck. Here's a illustration on how they differ:
I'm now getting the word out and working on the first charity. I also took the shirts to our first event, it's a youth event with over 2,000 Jr high and high school kids that started on Wednesday and ends today. So for we've had a pretty good response, but I'll do a full update later.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Search for a better shirt

The first run of tees I printed were on standard cotton tees, and they were fine, but I really want to Cross Your Heart shirts to become one of your favorite shirts. So I've been on the search for the perfect shirt and I think I found them.

I choose a company call Continental Clothing Co. Now there are a lot of nice high end cotton tees out there, but Continental not only makes really soft, high quality tees but their also eco-friendly. They have a line called Earth Positive that is manufactured in a wind-powered plant which lowers CO2 emissions by 90%! That's just cool, and it's one more thing that makes CYH Clothing positive.

But I had to get some samples and test them out before I ordered a bunch. So I wore one around all last Saturday and man these are really comfortable shirts! Not only are they soft and light weight but they're really well made. The shape was really nice too, the neck wasn't too tight and the sleeves/shoulders hung just right.

So I placed an order and I'm going to begin production later this week on both designs. Your gonna love these shirts!

100% organic ring-spun cotton made using wind power.

Nice, light weight and soft.