Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Boys Trend - Reflective

Today I am introducing another trend for Autumn/Winter 2013 called Reflective. This board focuses on younger boys, tomorrow I will be posting another Reflective trend board focusing on younger girls.

My Reflective trend looks at all things that influence our culture today.  It is heavily influenced by Eastern European cultures and traditions which are mixed with our own values and traditions to show a reflection of todays youth culture. 


Traditional Romanian and Russian prints are mixed with typography and used as pattern fills.  Skate prints feature a lot and are reflective of the trends values giving the popular look a fresh new feel.


Key Themes:


Skulls
Typography Motifs
Eastern European Influence
Poster Prints
Fairisle
Folk
Traditions
Skate

You can keep up to date with all my trend research on my Autumn/Winter 2013 and even my Spring/Summer 2014 boards on Pinterest.

Keep an eye out for more trend posts throughout this week.  You can also view all my trend work past and present by clicking on the trend label or by clicking here.

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Girls Trend - Migration

Following on from my posts last week that introduced my Migration themed trend for Autumn/Winter 2013 for Baby and Toddler boys - here is my Migration trend board for Toddler Girls.

The theme of migration looks at how people migrate around the world taking their values and traditions along with them and how they influence new cultures along the way.


The theme for toddler girls has a strong outdoorsy feel to it with lots of cute woodland animals featured in design and print.

Key Themes

Outdoors
Fairisle
Vintage
Poster
Ilustrative
Folky
Forest
Pattern fill motifs
Stylised Animals
Framed Graphics
Photo Real Prints


You can keep up to date with all my trend research on my Autumn/Winter 2013 and even my Spring/Summer 2014 boards on Pinterest.


Keep an eye out for more trend posts throughout this week.  You can also view all my old trend work by clicking on the trend label or by clicking here.

Sunshine at Sea

Last weekend we took our little boat out to the River Orwell just near Ipswich on the East Coast.  It was the first weekend we had seen the sunshine for weeks and weeks so it was real treat to get outside and enjoy it!  Here our a few of my favourite snaps I got from our day out!

I thought this boat looked really beautiful with the wood almost looking Orange and standing out so beautifully against the lovely blue sky that we hadn't seen in so long.

On our way out to sea from the River Orwell we passed the huge and busy port of Felixstowe where there were lots of shipping containers coming in.  I thought the red of this one with all its colourful containers looks so nice.

Just a lovely Buoy we passed that stood out on the murky Estuary waters and against the golden wheat fields of the land behind.

Here I just loved the reflection of this boat on the sea and the strip of yellow sandy beach in the background.  It really was such a treat to see the sun out!

Here just for fun our little Jack Russell - Captain Tilly taking charge at the front of the boat .... very cute!

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Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Boys Trend - Migration

Following on from yesterdays post, here is my toddler boys version of my Migration Trend for Autumn/Winter 2013.


The theme of Migration looks at how people migrate around the world taking their values and traditions along with them and how they influence new cultures along the way.


The theme for Toddler Boys has a strong outdoorsy feel to it with lots of stylised woodland animals featured.

Key Themes

Outdoors
Fairisle
Vintage
Poster
Illustrative
Folky
Forest
Pattern fill motifs
Stylised Animals

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Baby Trend - Migration

Here is my first trend board for Autumn/Winter 2013.  The theme of this board is 'Migration' and I have created separate boards for baby, toddler boys and girls. 


The theme of migration looks at how people migrate around the world taking their values and traditions along with them and how they influence new cultures along the way.


The theme for baby has a strong outdoorsy feel to it with lots of cute woodland animals featured in design and print.


Key Themes


Outdoors
Fairisle
Vintage
Poster
Ilustrative
Folky
Forest
Pattern fill motifs
Stylised Animals

Trend - Urban Typography

I have to dash off aboard today to go to a funeral sadly.  Instead of the trend I was going to start posting today, I am going to start the week with a couple of mini trends I have spotted recently to start the week.  I will resume normal postings from Thursday where I will start sharing my trends for Autumn/Winter 2013 as promised.

Here is a board I developed on urban style typography.

Trend - Horses

Here is a trend board I created with lots of lovely girly pony themes graphics.

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Trend Research Three

Following on from my last two posts here is a board of research for an Autumn/Winter 2013 Trend Story. I will be sharing trend boards with colour palettes and more detailed summaries of each trend over the course of next week.

I also hope to include some illustrations of key looks too.

If you want to have a look at a collection of all my trend research for Autumn/Winter 2013 click here to see my Pinterest board full of inspiration for the season.


This board has now been translated into the boys trend called Just.  CLick on the below link to see this board.

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Boys Trend - Just

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Trend Research Two

Following on from yesterdays post here is another board of research for Autumn/Winter 2013. I will be sharing trend boards with colour palettes and more detailed summaries of each trend over the course of next week.

I also hope to include some illustrations of key looks too.

If you want to have a look at a collection of all my trend research for Autumn/Winter 2013 click here to see my Pinterest board full of inspiration for the season.

This research board has been translated into an actual trend boards for boys and girls now.  Click on the below links to see these trends.

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Girls Trend - Reflective

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Boys Trend - Reflective

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Trend Research

As promised in recent posts here is some initial research I carried out for an Autumn/Winter 2013 trend story.  I will be sharing trend boards with colour palettes and more detailed summaries of each trend over the course of next week.

If you want to have a look at a collection of all my trend research for Autumn/Winter 2013 click here to see my Pinterest board full of inspiration for the season.

This research has now been complied into actual trend boards click on the below links to see each of the relating boards.

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Baby Trend - Migration

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Boys Trend - Migration

Autumn/Winter 2013/14 - Girls Trend - Migration

Maternity Fashion - Trouser Trends for Autumn/Winter 2012

Here is my last maternity post looking at trouser shapes for Autumn/Winter 2012.  

You can catch up with all my recent maternity wear posts by clicking here or by going to the Maternity wear under my labels.

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I will be introducing my research for the season Autumn/Winter 2013 later in the week.

If you want to have a sneak peak at some of my trend research for Autumn/Winter 2013 click here to see my Pinterest board full of inspiration for the season.

Maternity Fashion - Outerwear Trends for Autumn/Winter 2012

Following on from my maternity fashion posts last week I have a couple more posts to share with you on the topic before moving on to some trend posts for Autumn/Winter 2013!  

Here is a board of outer wear shape ideas for maternity wear for Autumn/Winter 2012.

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You can catch up with all my recent maternity wear posts by clicking here.


Have you seen my weekend posts?  Take a look at my regular Sunday Photo post by clicking here.  You can also click here to see my Saturday Craft post with a tutorial on how to create pillowcases in under an hour by using old shirts.


Later in the week I will be sharing with you my research for Autumn/Winter 2013.


If you want to have a sneak peak at some of my trend research for Autumn/Winter 2013 click here to see my Pinterest board full of inspiration for the season.

Budapest in Spring

Here are a few snaps from a trip to Budapest, Hungary that I shot back in March.  Still wet and rainy here but I'm told we are supposed to see some sun soon....I'll be waiting!

A little stroll into town passing the tram.

The government buildings.

A street after a heavy downpour with the sun reflecting off the road.

Some lovely trees!

The veg market - lovely cololurs.

Crafting - Make Your Own Pillows from Shirts!

Its another washed out weekend here......

Instead of getting down about all the rain today I decided to put my Saturday being stuck indoors to good use and get crafting!  A few days ago I was given some shirts that were not going to be worn again by their owner.  I had been thinking what I could do with them all week then this morning I had a eureka moment!

I woke up looked out of the window at the grey wet day outside and thought...

'I'll make those shirts into pillows'.

I thought I would share what I created here as it took under and hour and is an easy peasy way to convert similar old clothes into pillows.  What's great about using shirts is like in the image below you can use the front button up placket as the opening for the inner pillow to fit in through so no fiddly zips to fit Yay!

My finished pillowcase measures 40 x 40 cm as that matched other pillows they would sit with.  I cut my front square to 42 x 42 cm giving me 1 cm of seam allowance.

On the back side of the pillow I made a patchwork of different cuts from the two shirts I used.  I cut each square to 12 cm (this gives 10 cm squares when sewn together as 1 cm will be seam allowance)  I used a total of 16 squares to make up the side then sewed them all together.  Again, once this was all sewn together it gives me a piece measuring 42 x 42 cm.

I then sewed the patchwork square to the square I cut out of the front of the shirt including the button up placket and voila!  I have a very simple 'none zip' recycled shirt pillow case.

Some of the squares I cut on the bias giving a nice contrast to the pieces.

I included details of the shirts like cuff plackets to give the pillows a real crafty feel as you can see in the above and below images.

OK a few of my pieces didn't match up exactly but it is the first time i've attempted a patchwork.  I think it shows they are homemade!

Here are my two finished pillows.  A nice new addition to our home!

You can see the chest pocket still on here too!

I made the inside pillow with stuffing from some cheap pillows I picked up off of e bay and made their shell from some old kalico I had.

I would like to try this again with old denim jeans and make a big pillow to go o our sofa.  I will keep you updated in the future!

Maternity Fashion - Night Wear Trends for Autumn/Winter 2012

Here is another maternity post looking at nightwear shapes.

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Maternity Fashion - Tops Shapes for Autumn/Winter 2012

Following on in my week of maternity fashion posts here are a few top shapes for Autumn/Winter 2012.

Maternity Fashion - Print Trends for Autumn/Winter 2012

Following on from my maternity fashion post earlier in the week, here are some printed jersey and dress trends for Autumn/Winter 2012.

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Boys Fashion Illustration

I have recently been practising my fashion illustration.  I love creating illustrations but after University, with the way my jobs were, I became very reliant on computers for everything!  This unfortunately stopped me practising my hand drawing that I had once loved.  I use a pen pad instead of a mouse for work on my computer which combined with the brushes on illustrator being a lot more advanced which allows me to create hand drawn/painted effects nicely in illustrator.  Here is an illustration I created from a picture of one of my designs featured in Vertbaudet in  illustrator.

I hope to create more illustrations in the near future especially of my own featured designs.  Keep posted over the next few weeks for more posts like this.

Maternity Fashion - Key Catwalk Looks for Autumn/Winter 2012

Last year I designed some maternity wear ranges for Jo Jo Maman Bebe.  It was the first time I had designer maternity wear and there were lots of new things I had to consider!

I wanted the range to be fashionable yet practical!  I did a lot of research into catwalk trends and thought about how I could translate them into trendy maternity designs.

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Here are some key catwalk looks I put together for Autumn/Winter 2012 that I thought would translate nicely into maternity shapes too.  I will be sharing more trends over the course of this week.

Costal Trip

We have had another grey washed out week here!  I know what people say about England being rainy but this is super bad for a British Summertime!  I literally have not been able to go out once this week to truly enjoy the outdoors because of the bad weather.  Anyway, to try to give myself a lift I sifter through some pictures from early spring this year when my boyfriend and I and one of our dogs took a day trip to the coast on a wonderfully sunny day.  We decided to go to Maldon on the Essex coast and work our way up to Mersey Island a little further north.  The sun was warm and the beautiful colours of early spring made us truly optimistic for the seasons lying ahead after the long cold winter!