T his week's Folksy Friday features Folksy shop owner Fiona T ~ stay at home Mum to Anakin Skywalker! 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. Pink Ninja 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 embroider...
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