Vicky Yorke Designs

I am delighted to be able to share with you my collaboration with Widdop & Co . across homeware and gift in the UK & Europe. My soft and delicate ’Sand Dunes’ collection launched at Autumn Fair, UK this month and covers product including lanterns, photo frames, storage boxes, trinket dishes, keep sake boxes, wall art, stationery, mugs and lots more! Product is due to be in stores A/W 2017 and I will update the blog with more information as soon as it's available.  Also at Autumn Fair I was excited to launch new Christmas designs with UK company, Melamaster,   which includes a selection of melamine and laminated board decorative kitchen products and hanging signs from my ’Winter Floral’, ’Vintage Christmas’ and ’Folk Tale’ ranges. All designs are available to trade for custom order and select designs will be in retail and online in the run up to Christmas. 

A really enjoyable brief was to design some patterns for work top savers for use in the kitchen. These can be quite wacky, so it was a great opportunity to play around with colour and shape and the theme of tea pots and tea cups seemed like an obvious choice, as a tea pot is likely to be a common hot item placed on this type of trivet.   This design was chosen for production and is now available in two different shapes. Sadly, the below fruit pattern didn't make it, because, although it was liked, there was concern that the detail of the pattern would be lost under the glass top layer. It's quite a detailed pattern so I understand the point, but I was quite pleased with it, so thought I would share it with you anyway!... and you never know the design may one day make it onto another product... My other pattern did also make it to production however! I was asked to create a modern twist on a spot pattern and came up with the below. It's quite simple, but with