Deadly Tangle Clothing & Accessories

What a fantastic result!!! Thanks so much to all backers for making this project happen!! I'm incredibly excited to be looking ahead now to ordering the Fluorescent Keychains, Jelly Picks, Tangle Tees, and stickers from the manufacturers...

But first a bit of housekeeping! All cards should now have been charged for the amount pledged during the campaign. There are quite a few failed charges so please make sure you fix these as soon as you can. Backerkit allows two weeks after the end of the campaign for backers to fix failed payments. They will then send me the money so I can place the orders with the manufacturers.

In order to place these orders, I'll need to know which of the Fluorescent Keychains you'd like, and also the design and size of your Tangle Tee t-shirt, if you've ordered one of these. I'll send out the surveys in the week beginning Monday 1st June. As a reminder, this is also when you'll agree how much shipping you owe, as this was not collected during the campaign itself. And you'll have a chance to add further items as Add-ons at this stage, if you'd like to.

We didn't reach the stretch goal for the Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings, so I've removed these from those who've ordered them. I'll arrange a refund shortly but I have to figure out how to do this first - bear with me!

Lastly, if you missed the campaign, the Preorder Store is now open! 🎉

Thank you again - I'll be back in touch when I send the smoke test in a couple of weeks :)

Amazing news!! With just 36 hours left of the campaign, we have unlocked the Mauve Stinger Fluorescent Keychain! This means there will be THREE Fluorescent Keychains to choose from! AND it is now possible to have a matching Tangle Tee t-shirt and Fluorescent Keychain, since the Mauve Stinger design for both is unlocked!!

Here's a quick re-cap of what's unlocked vs what's still to go -




Next up is the Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings at £ 1800. Do you think we'll get there before the campaign end??

P.s. I've added the sizing for the leggings to the story section :) If they're not unlocked, I'll refund this item for those who selected them as an Add-on.

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll! I've now re-arranged the Stretch Goals according to your favourites - next up to unlock will be the Mauve Stinger Fluorescent Keychain at £ 1500!



Also, an update on the Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings! The sample arrived - here's the much-anticipated photos of me wearing them! I love the design and they worked well for climbing, but I'm going to order a few more samples to get the style right - I'm going for a high-waisted sports or yoga-style pair of leggings. Once I've settled on the style I'll be able to update you on the fabric composition.

I've added the gym leggings to the Add-ons. It's a bit of a gamble but if we don't make it to the £ 1800 stretch goal by the end of the campaign (only a week away!), then I'll refund the money to the people who added these to their pledge.

It's the end of the first week and there's lots to update you on!

Firstly, we sailed past the Mauve Stinger Tangle Tee stretch goal 🎉 AND past the Backer Count Achievement of Reach 50 Backers! 🎉🎉 Thanks to everyone who's backed the campaign so far - and thanks to those of you who voted in the Deadly Fish Poll! The Plumed Scorpionfish was a clear winner so we'll lock that in - all backers will now receive a free Scorpionfish Sticker!



Yesterday I excitedly finalised the design for the Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings and ordered a sample. Expect pictures soon of me prancing around in them at the climbing wall 🤣



But seriously, I'm so excited about the design that I wondered if we should re-think the order of the stretch goals...

Here's a reminder of what we've unlocked already...



And here's what's left to unlock...



Plus the Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings. Which are you most excited about?

We are now *one backer* away from our backer count achievement of 50 backers!!

As promised, here are two deadly fish for you to choose from. If we reach 50 backers, everyone will receive this fish as a free sticker!

The choice is between a Plumed Scorpionfish (Scorpaena grandicornis) and a Narrow-lined Pufferfish (Arothron manilensis).



Scorpionfish belong to the same family as lionfish, and carry venom in their spines.

I made the Narrow-lined Pufferfish illustration to accompany a blogpost I wrote a while back about pufferfish poison. It turns out the pufferfish itself isn't poisonous but its liver, skin and ovaries are made poisonous by toxin-producing bacteria that live inside it!

So which will it be, the Scorpionfish or the Pufferfish?

(Both are edible by the way, you've just got to know how to cook them!)