Katy Lou - Textiles - Abstract Art - Gifts for Children, Parents and Loved Ones

Katy Lou's Artwork and Gifts

If you want to show someone how much you care or to celebrate a special occasion, I can create a truly bespoke, one-off gift that will be treasured for a lifetime.

Please feel free to contact me or come and see me at a show.

Here are just a few ideas (click on the pics or use the links above for more):

Textiles Art

If you're looking for a special piece to finish off a room or a gift to mark a special occasion, why not consider a piece of textiles art - freestyle machine embroidery pieces produced to your preferences and mounted in your choice of bespoke frames, whether modern, shabby chic, driftwood or chunkily rustic.

Pieces can be produced to suit your budget, or you could order prints of any of my work that takes your fancy.

Wedding presents

Avoid ever having to buy a sandwich toaster again by giving the happy couple a truly personal gift. Perhaps a piece of textile art celebrating where they met, a favourite holiday or their first house together.
Alternatively, you could help with the decorations by providing the ring cushion or bunting with the happy couple's names and that all important date.
I could also provide bespoke dresses for flower girls and younger bridesmaids.

Housewarming gifts

Make a house a home with personalised, bespoke homewares and furnishings. For the lounge or bedroom, a decorative cushion in trendy black or girly pink. For the kitchen, I can provide a cosy for your tea-pot or cafetiere or a bespoke apron.
An embroidered collage incorporating handpicked (or your own) fabrics celebrating special people, events or places would look good in any room.

Baby keepsakes

Nobody can resist playing with a baby's tiny hands and feet. Remember those precious moments forever with their hand and footprints captured on calico, framed and embellished with favourite photos and embroidered phrases.

Gifts for new parents

Time with the little ones goes so quickly. Help to preserve those memories by decorating the nursery with personalised bunting, cushions or a rag doll made from recycled fabric or even favourite garments that are too small to wear but have too much sentimental value to throw away.
A family tree decorated with treasured fabrics, photos and embroidered phrases would also make a fine gift for any new parent's (or grandparent's) house.
These would make original, alternative gifts for christenings, for which I could also make a dress for the little one or her proud sister(s).

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About Katy Lou:

Brought up near the Yorkshire coast, I am now a Mummy and wife living in Surrey. I teach Art and produce my own line of art textiles for shows and commissions.

My drive and passion is creating quirky things from lots of different and unusual sources.

My two favourite places to get inspiration are the beach and the woods, where I go on long walks to blow away the cobwebs, become enthused with new ideas and (hopefully) lose a few pounds!

I try to source all my fabrics and materials locally, scouring reclamation yards, car booties, the internet and charity shops for just the right frame, the perfect fabric or the cutest button to finish a piece off. I mix these materials with my own personal touch of hand-embroidered proverbs, poems and song lyrics to create one-off products.

No two pieces are ever the same.

Please feel free to use the Contact Me form to suggest ideas that my work may have given you.

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Prices will vary according to sizes, materials used and the intricacy of the work and will be unique to each customer, but here are some examples to show the range on offer:

Price List
Item	Size	Example Price
Bespoke cushion	up to 24" x 24" (60cm x 60cm)	£24.00
Bunting	Up to 5 letters	£20.00
Bunting	Additional letters (each)	£2.50
Greetings Cards (Handmade - various designs)	6" x 4"	£1.50 each
Greetings Cards (Handmade - various designs)	6" x 4"	£5.00 per 6
Postcards (small prints of original artwork)	6" x 4"	£1.50 each
Postcards (small prints of original artwork)	6" x 4"	£5.00 per 6
Prints of original artwork	A3	£20.00
Prints of original artwork	A4	£15.00
Original Artwork	Please contact me to discuss specific designs to suit your decor and budget

Framing

Textiles art pieces are fixed to mount-board and can be supplied framed or unframed. All frames are made bespoke for each piece or will be reclaimed frames, distressed or decorated to complement each piece (or your personal taste).

Frames will typically fall within these decorative themes:

Rustic (chunky dark wood - similar to railway sleepers) best suited to large pieces
Driftwood (light, textured wood)
Shabby Chic (repainted with Farrow and Ball then carefully distressed)
Modern (think Ikea or Habitat)

Glass

Most of my pieces are produced using acrylic paint, which is not prone to fading (except in prolonged direct sunlight). For that reason, it is not always necessary to glaze every picture - indeed, unglazed pieces make the tactile nature of my art more obvious.

If you prefer to have glass in the frame, then that is perfectly possible, but please remember that glass can add a considerable amount to the weight of large pictures - worth bearing in mind when thinking about how and where to hang it!