My heart and soul. (A brief life story!)

"My passion lies with hand embroidery & creating embellished, forever pieces by layering textiles effects to result in wardrobe favourites to treasure.

Smudgy, printed fabrics with a vintage feeling, combining rich colour, texture and metallics that catch the light. "

For months on end, my life was taken over with creating my own collection for my final show at Northumbria University. I have never worked so hard as I did in that 4th and final year. I called my collection "Muddled Summer Memories" and designed and digitally printed all my own fabrics (taken from paintings and embroideries I did) and then embroidered back into these fabrics and made 6 outfits for the catwalk show. (Sounds simple enough?!) With deadlines and other projects running alongside this and days of hand embroidery it was definately tough! We had a show at the Baltic in Newcastle in May (I'll post those photos first) and then I was also chosen to show in Graduate Fashion Week in London in June (Second photos). I wanted to create a collection that I loved, and others would love too. And guess what?! I think I did it! So this feels quite personal to post this on here and show you,but here it is. I hope you like it. :)