this is a great neck line on a fuller figure I love it much more than on a small person it looks really elegant but relaxed and comfy

wearing cashmere tencel and felted wraps

So Hello ladies a few reminders of styles you saw at the shows on me ..! being the only house model left in the house of heart felt.. everyone else has gone home for the holidays...........!?

Thankfully Viv kindly allowed me to show off her beautiful pregnant volumptous self .!!

in the shires

A bit of a delayed reaction had a year of trials and some triumphs perfecting an organic print process that would be worthy of being applied to organic pima cotton. I did it but more of that later!

I need more pima cotton this will mean a journey to peru, but in the mean time I had to revert back to some tried and tested design formulas to replenish the bank account!

One big thing..I increased my size ratio small to 2X to service my customers needs and you loved it I discovered a more volumptuous figure often looked much nicer in some styles than others in this post I took some pictures of Viv who is bloomingly pregnant to show you how much more flattering some pieces look on a fuller figure . now I am on the otherside of an intense whirlwind craft show tour from toronto to vancouver and ending in the UK . I had lots of great reaction but my last show yorkshire UK was a resounding flop not a great end to what was an escalating success in Canada...weather bad choice of show ?

So now on the down hill to xmas Im nestled in the heart of the shires in my friends cottage amusing myself in some' how to wear' and rustic shots to tempt you towards some last minute xmas bargains in some very beautiful sustainable fabrics.

2010 steps to sustainable clothes

How exciting and intimidating..
Im about to share an experience, that I hope will make a difference..to the way we chose to buy and make clothes.
Im a fashion designer altho find it very difficult to describe myself as such, having spent a good part of my professional life, being unable to embrace the title without also having the urge to apologise for it.
I spent a large part of my childhood obsessively stitching my dolls into ill fitting bits of fabric and then myself into equally momentful creations, usually minutes before leaving the house for a night out (if it lasted the night I was lucky). ..How could something so fun and expressive carry such a heavy burden of accountability years on.. in 1980 something.. I watched a documentary on global warming which had the power to catapult me forever into a conflict with my passion .

mmm note: do not want this in anyway to sound like an evangelical epiphany? even tho perhaps it was..?
anyway szz, the point is here, not to provide a daily dose of colourful me! but to try to follow thru a process from field to end of life that can fully deserve the title of ecological fashion .
Thats my goal and I will leave it at that for now, while I go away and find something constructive and inspiring to add, with lots of pictures..