Qtag and the art of scribbling on T-Shirts

on Nov 24 in Uncategorized by

Our 84 mile sponsored walk of Hadrian’s wall is looming ever closer. Seven months and twelve days close to be precise.

I’ve started to cast my net around for some corporate sponsorship and the wonderful people at Qtag.com have been the first to step up to the plate with an extremely generous donation of £100. Thanks especially go to Simon Turner from their marketing department who set it all up. You are a gent sir.

Qtag sell wholesale clothing to the general public. By way of thanks for the donation I asked Simon if there was any way to promote his company on the blog. He very kindly sent me a set of Berol fabric crayons and a couple of T-shirts for me to take a look at and review, with the understanding that I’d be 100% honest in my appraisal.

Fortunately we all loved them. It would have been rather awkward if we hadn’t.

The crayons were bright, fun, and easy to use. But best of all they were clean. We’ve used fabric paint on T-shirts before and I’ve always needed to lay down protective sheeting worthy of a microchip factory. But with these crayons you just draw them on the fabric , iron it, and you’re done. Marvellous.

Amy loved making the T-shirts. In fact she was pestering me to do it from the moment the package from Qtag arrived. It must be something about being given permission to draw on previously forbidden canvases. If someone invented special Wallpaper Crayons I’m sure they’d make a fortune.

Here’s a photo of Amy modeling her new bespoke T-shirt:

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The crayons are also cheap. Very cheap. Including VAT the crayons come to a total of £4.11. When you add to that the fact Qtag sell blank white kids T-Shirt for just £1.09 (or if you’re feeling posher a Fruit of the Loom one for £2.75), then you’ve got yourself a pretty good stocking filler.

What’s more, if you buy in bulk (10 or more) you get it even cheaper. Kerry and I are seriously considering getting a small stockpile together for the relentless onslaught of birthday parties we go to throughout the year. That way we get to be the smug parents who give the cool creative presents rather than the ones who obviously rely solely on 3 for 2 offers at Boots.

You can buy the fabric crayons here, and the kids T-shirts here.

The rest of the Qtag website is also pretty impressive price wise – adult Fruit of the Loom T-shirts for £2.30, cotton polo shirts for £3.69. However it’s all pretty plain and simple stuff. You’re not going to find any Fred West or Matthew Perry labels here (or should that be Fred Perry and Matthew West? I get confused). But for the fashion phobic such as myself it’s a good place to stock up on the essentials. It’s also pretty good for getting those plain polo shirts for kids school uniforms (£3.20 to you squire).

And if you’re looking to buy any sort of uniform for a team event (like a group walk along Hadrian’s Wall for example) it’s a great place to go. As is their sister site, clothes2order.com where you can get stuff printed with logos too.

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Disclaimer. As Qtag gave us a donation towards the Joseph Salmon Trust I suppose you could argue that this is a paid post. My review was honest and I’ve also personally donated the equivalent cost of the crayons and T-shirts to the Trust as well. Donation or not, I wouldn’t be recommending Qtag unless I believed in what they are peddling. My only reservation is that I imagine the majority of their goods are made overseas by exploited workers; but lets face it, you’d find it very difficult to find any item of clothing in the shops on the high street that isn’t.

Oh, and I made up the designer “Matthew West” for the purposes of that crappy joke. Sorry

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