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In episode 98, we introduced you to Jennifer Long, who started with the dream of becoming a fabric designer for her favorite company, Riley Blake Designs, and she did just that. Jennifer is a Riley Blake Designs fabric designer, quilt and doll pattern writer, machine embroidery digitizer and online educator. She is the creator of the Bee Sew Inspired Makers Club, and is also a wife, a mom to four and lives on a hobby farm in the prairies in Manitoba, Canada.

Here she shares her five best tips on becoming a fabric designer.

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It's really important if you want to step up and stand out as a designer that you consider branding within your business. 

Branding includes the assets you use e.g. fonts, colours and logos etc. but it goes far beyond that. Branding also includes your unique voice and the way you show up in your business.

In this podcast episode, we talk about the importance of branding within your design business and some tips for what you should and shouldn't do when it comes to branding.

If you are a surface pattern designer who is wanting to get to the next level and move away from being a hobbyist to a successful designer who is selling their designs consistently with a regular income then you need to allocate time for business tasks.

In this podcast episode, we talk about the importance of treating your design business as a business and I also share a few tips to help make that process easier.

Mood boards are such a great way to visually communicate your ideas and allow you to collate all of your inspiration in one place before you begin designing.

In this episode, I talk about what you should include on your mood board and why you should create one.

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As a designer, there are so many different ways to work and it may often look from the outside like a designer just sits down and comes up with amazing designs but there's obviously more to it than that.

Although everyone will approach their work slightly differently there's a general design process that will usually take place. 

In this episode, we look at an overview of the design process.