Fiona, who opened her Folksy shop at the beginning of May, sells delightful embroidered and applique covered notebooks. Currently living in Derbyshire, she studied Textiles (embroidery) at Nottingham Trent University and has been drawing, knitting and sewing for as long as she can remember.
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Fiona's items are the result of a collaboration with her sister, translating her sister's pen & ink drawings into Fiona's fabric 'sketches', before creating a fun end product.
Each tiny piece is cut and stitched by hand, so every design is unique.
Fiona likes to work with calico, cotton & linen, using applique, hand and free machine embroidery.
Pink Cupcakes Notebook cover
It was doing some freelance design work for a greetings card company which kickstarted the sewing/embroidery bug:
"I had made some embroidered lavender bags for birthday gifts last year, and an old college friend who works for Tigerprint/Hallmark, started nagging me to Do Something.
Getting back to design was always something I planned on doing "one day", but after 10 years out I really didn't know where to start. A few months later she ambushed me with a brief for some embroidered designs, to be honest they weren't great, but once I'd started sewing and making again, I couldn't stop!
I opened my Folksy shop at the beginning of May - it's earlier days yet but I hope to improve and expand on what I'm doing now. Mostly I'm just happy to be back doing something that I'd forgotten how much I loved".
Pink Bird 'N Bees Fabric Notebook cover
And Anakin Skywalker? He's Fiona's 11 year old Border Collie of course!
Pink Cat Fabric Notebook
I can't sew (or rather WON'T sew) so always admire anyone who has the patience to produce such well~made and covetable items as Fiona.
Visit her Folksy shop now!
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