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How To Make the Hera Pattern
The Hera pattern consists of a fully lined puff sleeve, tie neck blouse and a curved yoke, gathered skirt with pockets, both with elasticised waistbands.
The Hera comes as a two piece set that can also transformed into an all-in-one dress and a semi attached dress.
How To Make the Odette Pattern
The Odette pattern is a mock-wrap style dress with a bias cut, full circle skirt and detailed dart features on the bodice and sleeve.
The Odette can also be made in a peplum style blouse and bias cut skirt version.
How To Make the Frankie Bag Pattern
The Frankie is a reversible tote bag with a knot shoulder tie feature and pocket bag.
The Frankie can be made 3 different ways.
A miniature version, a medium version and a long cross body version.
You can also play around with contrast fabrics and reverse it. Two bags in one!
How To Make the Hazel Pattern
The Hazel is the ultimate flowy, comfortable, wearable piece that you can dress up or down.
Featuring a tie neck yoke, balloon sleeves and three voluminous tiers (with pockets, of course!)
To make the Hazel blouse, simply make two tiers and hem!
How To Make the Freya Pattern
Q+A with a Slow Fashion Designer
How I Started My Slow Fashion Label | Part II
How did I know it was time to leave my secure, full-time, big shot designer role and go all in on my own label?
The truth is it wasn’t a complete light bulb, aha moment where I just stopped what I was doing at my desk, told my boss ‘I quit’ and walked out the front door.
How I Started My Slow Fashion Label | Part I
I never started out to create my own label, at least full-time anyway.
It all started when I was working full-time as a womenswear designer for one of the biggest department stores in Australia.
I’ll be honest, it was a fast-paced, stressful environment. And yes, there were definitely some ‘Devil-wears-Prada’ moments. I was leaving home at 7am and coming home at 7.30pm, spending around 3 hours commuting on public transport in and out of the city.