The world's greatest coat

TA DA! here is the world's greatest coat I absolutely love it (it's my Christmas present from Steve AKA Lazy Chief - yes I know we are naughty to have opened presents early but I couldn't wait!)

It's created by the geniuses at Dig for Victory in Brighton,  they created a bespoke paper pattern for me so I could design the placement print and then I had it printed at CAT - the Centre for Advanced Printing at Glasgow School of Art onto velvet. CAT then posted the fabric to me, I posted it to Dig for Victory, they sewed together all the pattern pieces and.... TA DA! I'm so happy with it, and really enjoyed collaborating with so many clever and creative people.

This will be my last post before Christmas, I'm currently juggling nine projects (and three more have come in this week!) so things are super busy but I'm looking forward to a few days off, too much food and time with family.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone, and I'll be back next week with a round up of my favourite jobs from 2016 xxx

New dress!!!

Hiya, mad week... worked extra hard so I could take today off and run away to the seaside (Brighton) to collect a new hand made dress from clever Eleanor at Dig For Victory. 

Last October I went to Jaipur in India (find out more here) it was an amazing trip, and on the very last day I bought a VERY old, VERY heavy and VERY battered skirt that I found at the back of a cupboard rolled up into a ball in an ancient antique shop. I knew that Eleanor would be able to transform it into a dress for me on my return, and we discussed lots of options to make best use of the fabric. In the end she recommended keeping the skirt intact to create a long dress, so I sourced additional blue silk from Berwick St in London and she did her magic. The hem has the names of Indian cities embroidered in Hindi and is my favourite part.

Perfect for twirling!

I also had the chance to meet up with a Twitter friend, superstar illustrator Tilly AKA Running for Crayons which was totally brilliant. She brought a second lunch guest in the form of the worlds cutest miniature sausage dog, I was besotted! So nice when you get to meet internet friends in real life, lucky me.

OK, enjoy the rest of your week, I'll be back soon with more gossip x