The chair made the cut and off it went down to London for the New Designers Exhibition. I was delighted to be showing at New Designers,...

The Carnival Lantern is finally finished, its taken a lot longer than initially planned and its been a really long journey to get here,...

A shoot with Rob Gibson, local photographer who usually specialises with insect and nature photography, he came with a lot of great ideas...

The 12 domestic knitted panels each took roughly 10 hours, 7-8 hours of partial knitting and 2-3 hours of finishing, stuffing and...

Having prepared The CactEye Collection for the ND submission, I was ready to move onto The Carnival Lantern, Part 3 of the Story, and the...

The Journey of The Hungry Ghost as an over all project has provided so many ideas and avenues to explore. I have made some plans to...

The filming of the CactEye Chair has been really effective in translating a slower, sensory version of the chair. The UV yarn has picked...

The Footstool Once finished the chair I was considering making little socks or monster shoes for the little legs of the chair. The legs...

The Lamp The UV yarn reacts well in UV light even with a little bit of normal lighting. I thought having a lamp with a UV bulb placed...

I had sampled with the placement of UV yarn and developed the over all design for the chair. I wanted the cacti forest : arms and wings,...

The photo gallery below demonstrates in order the steps I took whilst constructing the chair. Rather than a knitted cover that could be...

The project is all about conveying The Journey of The Hungry Ghost through the pieces of conceptual furniture, I'd like to have some...

The Zebra Cacti : Yarn : Black Alpaca, Black/Blue Mohair Alpaca, White and Gold Feather Yarn, White Lambswool, UV yarn 8x rows,...

Total Material Cost : £506.65 Yarn: Chunky Natural Wool : Spruce x 2 cone, Lime x3 cones, Moss x1 cone Each cone : £12.99 Total : £77.94...

The Cacteye Chair Construction Process Total amount of hours to complete the chair : 150 Breakdown : Knitted pieces completed on the...

Naturally the lantern was going to be too large to be considered for New Designers, and progress with the frame was slow. The chair would...

The Cact-Eye Chair is aiming to be sensory not only with its sculptural knitting, uv and textural yarns, but also through the stuffing of...

The chair has been my main focus, to be able to submit the chair for New Designers it needs to be finished by the 23rd of May to be ready...

Whilst preparing for the New Designers hand in next Wednesday I have been developing designs for business cards and postcards. The...