Business Cards

Super excited that my business cards from Moo have arrived, they're brilliant! I have about 20 different designs and I'm really happy with them, the card quality and printing is great, all round just good really! :)

Final designs

Here are some photos of my finished final designs that I took to put onto my business cards. I still have SO much work to do but I'm happy so far with the way things are turning out :)

Degree show!

If you find yourself in Cardiff between these dates you should definitely come and check out the show, it's going to be good! :)

Designs

 

Here are some designs I've been working on today. Photoshop makes designing so easy, I love it! Not sure which of these, if any I'll use yet, I have to sample them in embroidery at uni next week. :)

Rocky Road Cheesecake

I have been busy as can be around here the last couple of weeks, I'll put up some photos of my first finished designs soon! Deadline appears to be just round the corner now and I'm getting slightly panicky now! But we won't dwell on that.

Today I made this amazing Rocky Road Cheesecake, recipe found here, at least it looks and smells amazing, it's to take to my friend's house tomorrow night so I haven't tried it yet (well I may have tried a little bit of the mixture before it was cooked and that was delicious!) Yum yum! :)

Stitching in circles

Today I learnt something ridiculously simple but at the same time really brilliant, and that is how to sew a perfect circle on a sewing machine with some masking tape and a pin.

 

I already have hundreds of ideas of how I could use this, unfortunately I fear this could really be something that distracts me from my uni work within the next few weeks!

Works in progress

The last couple of weeks have been frantic! Work has been started on the final designs for my degree show collection (Eeek! Scary!)

Some work in progress digital stitching

Now, these pieces have just to be finished, that is to say, all stray threads cut, backing paper removed and the majority are to have hand stitched beading added, which I am forseeing as a rather painstaking business but luckily I have a great deal of patience for that kind of thing! :)

Completely unrelated but very lovely, blossom trees photographed on my way through Bute Park this morning :)

Working space

Here is a peek at my studio space at uni, this is where a lot of my work is done, I find I'm much more productive here than at home where there's too many distractions! :)

Are you bored yet?

(I wouldn't blame you!) :P



Fabric

Yesterday I went to London and visited what was, quite frankly the most amazing fabric shop I have ever seen in my life. It was Joel and son fabrics which I came across a while ago when Jane Brocket wrote about it on her Blog. Literally piled floor to ceiling with the most beautiful silks, satins, lace and velvet, I wish I'd thought to take a photo of the inside of the place but I didn't.

Having requested some samples from them a few weeks back and having been treated with really great customer service (unfortunately not always the case when you mention you're a student) as well as beautiful fabric, I decided to buy all my fabrics for my final collection there. They were friendly, helpful, had absolutely everything I needed in the perfect colours, and packaged my purchases in a gorgeous bag (i'm a sucker for good packaging!) so much so that I didn't mind spending what for me is an extortionate amount of money!

I bought silk satin, silk duchesse satin, silk tulle and silk chiffon. The quality is great and the fabrics are beautiful, it's hard to get perfect colour reproduction in photos (particularly on such a grey day) as the colous are so subtle; shades of ivory, blush, oyster and champagne. I can't wait to start work on my final designs, if I can ever bear to take a pair of scissors to such expensive fabric that is!