Ever since I was a child I have loved fashion - and began my career outfitting my Barbie with clothes that I would have loved to wear. I never achieved Barbie's figure, but I did follow my dream and complete a course in Fashion and Design at the Kent Institute of Art and Design (then the Medway College of Design), where I explored machine knitting as a means of producing both the fabric and the shaped garment pieces at the same time. We worked on what was in those days the height of technology in the domestic knitting machine - Knitmaster machines with a push-button patterning facility. But I was fascinated then, as I am now, by the fluidity and versatility of the knitted fabric. On leaving college I went to work for the fashion designer Bill Gibb in London. Machine knitting took a back seat while I worked on producing the beautiful draped evening wear, and impeccably cut day wear that was Bill’s hallmark. When my children were born I stopped work and, once the immediate exhaustion of birth and young babies was done with, began to look around for something to do. I went back to my first love of machine knitting and began to knit garments for sale. It seemed a natural progression to make up the patterns I used and offer them for sale to machine knitters. |
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I worked at this up until 1994 when my teaching commitments grew to the point where I had to make a choice, and a secure income won over the exigencies of being self-employed. Since then there have been many changes in my life, change of partner, and change of location (to Spain). Now I offer the most popular patterns again in a new format - gathered together in booklets and offered at a bargain price. Wendy |
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