Why Hello There :)

Hi everyone :)

Welcome to Bird & Button Designs :)

Thank you for popping along to see my brand new design blog. :) My hope for this blog is to share my love of crafting and textile design and share the projects that I'm working on. :) :)

I graduated from the University of Huddersfied on Wednesday. The course I did was Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors. I really enjoyed my time there. I thought for my first ever blog post i would share some pictures from my final degree collection with you :)

The Secret Life of Birds:

The following pictures are all from my degree show. The collection was designed to be used by children and their parents to create their own special, secret play-spaces and hideaways. For example the fabrics coud be used to create tee-pees, tents, bed canopies, or even thrown over the back of a settee or a table, to create a secret space for children to play.

The theme for the collection was a naughty little group of birds who go around pinching things that they think are treasures. For example, they love to steal buttons and tea-cups. :) Naughty little things. :) The birds love searching for these objects in English country gardens and on British beaches.

The designs were created with the intention of them being interactive. For example, hidden pockets would enable children to engage with the story and hide their own "treasures", just like the birds in the story.

Over the next few posts i intend to share with you some of the CAD designs from the collection. However, today i will show you some pictures of my final show, displaying the designs from this collection.

I decided to display one of my large designs in a way to suggest a washing line tent :) I was really pleased with the result :)

So there's a few pictures from my degree show :) I'm definately going to share with you some of the CAD designs from the collection in the next few posts :) I hope you enjoy seeing them :)

Big hugs and smiles :)

Lucy x x x :)