You can now buy my products online!

A quick update to say the shop element of London Property Makeover is now online with four of my designs available for purchase.

London Property Makeover has teamed up with Stylist to offer this fantastic competition, check it out here.

I am also gathering information on a number of potential stockists within the Lancashire area of the UK. Fingers crossed something will come of this. I’ll keep you posted…

Q and A with Karen Stones

Karen from London Property Makeover asked to do a question and answer session with me for her blog. Take a look here. Hope you enjoy an insight into my thought processes and creative practice.

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Have your cake and eat it...

So I know it’s not textiles related but I guess it’s still creative. A couple of weeks ago it was my friend Susie’s hen party. As it was quite a civilised occasion, I decided to make hen party themed cupcakes. We had 'L' plates and then pretty glitter and flowers too...

London Property Makeover

I am now listed on this website London Property Makeover. Take a nosy at this London-based interior designer who spotted my work at New Designers. She sent an email explaining that her own website was undergoing a makeover and she was hoping to have a retail section and ‘hot new designers’ section to her website. I jumped at the chance and sent her some fabric swatches for my degree show collection, ‘Mapping Nature’. She came back asking if I was able to make cushions using similar ideas. I sent some samples which she loved! (YAY!) I’m in the process of creating some more designs and the retail section should go live in the next month. I’ll keep you posted. For now, check out my profile.

Course 2: Soft Furnishings

On Monday I had my first class of Soft Furnishing, another ten week course. I’m hoping to learn how to make curtains, roman blinds and basic things like zips & button-holes. Soon I’ll be able to add curtains and blinds to my repertoire! I hope!

This week we began wish the basic cushion (Which I am already capable of as you have seen!) but this cushion involves buttons for the fastening, now that I can do! I shall upload a picture when its done.

The Trend Boutique: Freelance Workshop

Yesterday I travelled down to Nottingham for an intense four-hour workshop on freelancing. What you can & cannot do the legalities or being self-employed, costing, working to a brief and allsorts in-between. It was an incredibly useful course but so intense! My mind was a mush afterwards. I shall have to have a good read through of my 34 sides of notes and 56 slide hand-out…

Course 1: Adobe Illustrator

So as my CAD skills are pretty rubbish I decided I should invest in improving them. So after looking through my CAD folder from uni I realised I probably had what I needed Photoshop-wise, it’s just a case of practice makes perfect…hopefully!

Illustrator on the other hand I realised I knew even less than I thought I did. So I enrolled on a course. Tonight I have my third class of ten and I am beginning to get the hang of it. Fingers crossed I remember it and it doesn’t seem to vanish from my brain like the Photoshop did…