Final Collection

Not long now until my final collection goes on show at the RCA MA Textiles exhibition, and as you can probably guess from the prolonged silence I've been knitting my little socks off in recent weeks! But it is time to break the silence and show you a taster of the collection! Come and see the rest at the SHOW RCA 2012 from 20th June - 1st July.

Preview - The Travelling Line

Long time no post!

Although I don't finish and exhibit my final MA collection until June, time seems to be slipping away far too quickly! It's been an exciting few weeks, I've bought a babylock embellisher, 10gg knit machine and also a 10gg hand linker, so deep in the Hampshire countryside there will soon be a little studio in the making!
A while ago I promised a sneaky look at what I am currently working on and I think it's probably about time I let you all in on it.... so *ta daa* here it is!

 Stay tuned to see what it all becomes!

From the 19th Floor

Up until now I have blogged purely about my own work. However it's now time to mix things up and add in things that inspire me / are of interest within the general world of knit/fashion/london/me.

Being a very lucky little so and so today, I got to go and sit front row at the Jonathan Saunders AW12/13 show on the 19th floor of The Broadgate Tower. It was FANTASTIC. I really can't say much more (other than Anna Wintour was also there, so obviously it was the place to be on a chilly sunday evening), so I shall let a number of photos I took do the talking. I don't have a fancy camera so some might be a bit fuzzy but it's all about the general vibe rather than the finer details. Enjoy!

woven leather, very clever.

nice bit of knit!

powder blue = my new obsession

graphic patterned textures

divine sheer back to the emerald dress

intarsia check patterned knit 

clever combinations of ladders and stripes 

the clever man himself 

incredible backdrop

the breathtaking view from the venue

Better than your average Sunday.

New Era XC Cap Design Competition 2010

After finishing my BA degree and with the luxury of an entire summer of free time before diving into my next course the RCA, I decided to enter a competition to re-design New Era's iconic baseball cap. Probably not the most obvious thing for a knit designer to do, but it was a new challenge with a £10k prize up for grabs, so I said why not and gave it a go. Before embarking on building a sculptural piece of 'head art', I had been building a sketchbook of art deco inspired imagery that I thought could look quite cool if it was blown up onto jumpers, so it came in handy when I wanted so funky graphics for my hat.

For the cap, I had a concept of taking the shape of the peak and multiplying it around the hat in loads of different crazy prints. Hopefully so you would see little bits of everyone from different angles. I mocked this up in paper as so ---->

So, armed with a blank canvas cap, some super cool paint pens and markers courtesy of New Era, and electrical tape and a bit of knit, I created this work of art. A bit random and slightly unwearable, but it went into an exhibition which travelled around the globe and I now have a very posh coffee table book with all the entries (including mine) in. Oh and the nice people at creative review also featured it on their blog here.

NEON

Many of you will know, I LOVE neon and I had slightly forgotten this until I started adding it into colour palettes I was making today. In celebration of my renewed relationship with fluorescence, I have decided to show you a sketchbook I did whilst on my foundation course. There was a lot of neon, more electrical components and some slightly questionable sportswear design ideas, but it's a fun and very playful, so put on your sunglasses, you're going to need them!