How exciting has the past couple of weeks been? Well, as if the weather is in tune with my life, things just get sunnier and more sublime by the day! I am delighted to report that an article I wrote for Colleen G Lea's Fashionista Sewing Blog http://www.fashionsewingblog.com/ will be published on Monday (I am told) - thanks Colleen! I'll post the link when it is up and working.
In addition, the Daily Mail's Charlotte Kemp and I had a lovely chat a few days ago and I'm hoping her article about Sew Iconic will be published in SheMail sometime very soon - watch this space for details.
I'm not sure how much I can say about another very exciting project that I am in discussion with organisers about, but it will combine my love for desiging and sewing stuff with my passion for talking about it till the preverbial (knitted or stitched - I don't mind which!) cows come home. I am also thinking of expanding this blog to accomodate some tutorials and other aspects of my work. I've no idea how this is all going to fit with everything else, but that's half the fun of it I think!
Onwards and upwards my friends!
Friday, 25 May 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
Exciting reviews for Sew Iconic
Wow! It really amazes me that I have actually accomplished the hitherto unimaginable feat of actually writing a book... and the best part is that some people actually have enjoyed reading it so far. Check out these reviews... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13239392-sew-iconic It is so rewarding to have people make positive comments about something that is, after all, akin to giving birth.
I am eternally grateful to Alison Hissey, at Quintet, for all of her fantastic work in cajoling and gently persuading me to produce this finished product.
My only regret is that I didn't record the process as I had intended - to blog or not to blog was defintely the question, but there are, it seems, only a finite number of hours, minutes, seconds in each day and it was this forum that took the hit I'm afraid! Perhaps now I can get back to sharing thoughts from the sewing room. Gotta love this life eh?
I am eternally grateful to Alison Hissey, at Quintet, for all of her fantastic work in cajoling and gently persuading me to produce this finished product.
My only regret is that I didn't record the process as I had intended - to blog or not to blog was defintely the question, but there are, it seems, only a finite number of hours, minutes, seconds in each day and it was this forum that took the hit I'm afraid! Perhaps now I can get back to sharing thoughts from the sewing room. Gotta love this life eh?
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Iconic screen costumes galore!
The trouble with agreeing to write a book is that you do, at some point, actually have to start with the putting words together in some sort of recognisable, familiar order in order to create an interesting and hopefully stimulating body of information that may, possibly, vaguely be of interest to some other human beings on this planet. That is, as opposed to the rather strange and disconcerting beings that occupy the classrooms where I spend much of my days, attempting to impart knowledge, concepts, skills and deeper understanding in any capacity to frequently unwilling learners who would, frankly rather be watching the cartoon network. If any of them were to hear that I was writing a book, they would be astonished. Not because they'd think me incapable or that this might be an unachievable ideal, but because they simply don't connect the physicality of an actual book with real people who create them. So, I don't intend to tell any of them.
I was looking for inspiration and typed the title of my book http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=8253675 into a popular search engine and it came up as the first item (yay!). On clicking through to the appropriate link, I discovered that *shock* - someone had beaten me to it! There is was in glorious colour, with a synopsis that eerily rang as familiar as my clean socks - someone had already written my book, or at least everything I had intended to write, already, and they had published their book ahead of me! Every detail, every concept, even the cover looked exactly like the one my publisher had shown me. Then I scrolled back up and determined to find the name of this usurper. I felt a complete and proper charlie when I realised that it was my name on the author line... this was MY book, and all I have to do now is actually write it. Quite a relief actually!
So now, it's fabric sourcing and designing time. Perhaps I should go do that then!
I was looking for inspiration and typed the title of my book http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=8253675 into a popular search engine and it came up as the first item (yay!). On clicking through to the appropriate link, I discovered that *shock* - someone had beaten me to it! There is was in glorious colour, with a synopsis that eerily rang as familiar as my clean socks - someone had already written my book, or at least everything I had intended to write, already, and they had published their book ahead of me! Every detail, every concept, even the cover looked exactly like the one my publisher had shown me. Then I scrolled back up and determined to find the name of this usurper. I felt a complete and proper charlie when I realised that it was my name on the author line... this was MY book, and all I have to do now is actually write it. Quite a relief actually!
So now, it's fabric sourcing and designing time. Perhaps I should go do that then!
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