grandmothers/ Sofia Grace

grandmothers/ nans/ grams/ granny/ grandma/ ect... we all love our granny so much and yesterday i was reminded of that.

working in retail you can get to meet some really intresting people and you can find our some realy amazin storys weather it be why their out shopping or how amaizn their granchildren are. so yesterday when i had the grandmother of up and coming shoe desginer Sofia Grace come in to the store was deffintly one of thoughs intresting days and reminded me of how much i love my granmothers.


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clare copland visiting tutor sessions.

Clare Copland one of the enthusiastic people I ever meet, there’s not one person who she can not get enthusiastic by. She a very inspiring person if she can not inspire you then I really don’t know who can, well beside your self.


Here are a few photos on what we designed and marked. The first session we made was accessories. I put together a hat using a shower cap, doily, croshay part from a dress, fabric, a mask and some jems/stones. I put it together by laying the croshay part over the shower cap then gluing the mask on top. I created a fan with the doily and glued them to the back of the mask, after that I mad a flower out of fabric and created a head pieces from an old headband, I really disliked the it so I toke it apart and attached it to the mask as well as the jems.

my manipulations so so far

for it can not be done

So for me blogging can not be done every day maybe if i was to blog a few times a week will just be satisfactory. Over the last few weeks i have started my professional project, based on a live brief for fab frocks in westborne www.fabfrocks.co.uk designing for 18-25 and using fabric manipulation as my theme.

Starting with a book The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff. An amazing book with so many things to learn. I decided to work my way through the book chosen manipulation that i though would work best with my designs. So far i have manipulated fabric in to flowers, pleated fabric in different ways to achieve different looks. I intend on carrying these manipulation through out the project trying to achieve the best looks for my designs. i indend on uploading the photos as i go along so keep an eye out.

I have also start taken life drawing classes and where i hope to gain more skills and learn more about the proportions of the body to help me design and construct my garments. I will be uploading photos soon.

kirsty x

can it be done everyday

How to start blog that’s what I’m am always stuck on. Now I think if I knew how to start them I would feel much better about writing them more often. This year I aim to update my blog several times a week, updating it with my project and trips to London, keeping up to date on everything and anything.

How did i get here!

5 min presentation, about ME

I'm at uni studying fashion because of my teachers, parents and peers. I always wanted to do something different, something that they thought I mite be good at which in school was textile. I have been very lucky with such supportive parents, who have supported me on what eve I wanted to do. So when I came to them and said I wanted to study fashion, they accepted it and pushed me in the write direction.

I knew my uncle was a tailor and I always thought about working for him once I left school. however I left school and went to college to study art and design in the hope that I move on to fashion, which is where I meet my teacher Fiona Willians, who inspired and push me to carry on with my dream and come and take it further by going to uni which I nether thought could be a option. After getting in to uni I diced to get in contact with my uncle where I then asked to have a work placement with him for the end my first year.

I loved every minuet of the work experience. I came away feeling like I could defiantly see myself going into tailoring working closely with him. He defiantly inspires me to be the best I can be.

When the year ends I'm not sure what really I will choose to do yet. But I know that the people around me in my life will defiantly be an influence on that. my uncle said that doing a third year is a bad idea if I want to go in to bespoke tailor like him, I feel I would have to re-lean all the ways of bespoke tailoring and everything i would have learnt from uni i feel would have been a waste of time. Where as my parents feel i should definitely stay in education and go on to get a BA (hons). All I know is that i defiantly am going to make the most of this year whether it be the last or not. I hope to carry on learning new things.

jacket project

a project i wish to forget and glade its all over and can learn from all the mistakes i made on it. i will put up a final image of it soon so keep a look out but as far as talking about it i just want to for get it.