Sasha Doll Style

5 September 2010

It never ceases to amaze me how ideas seem to keep arriving...  I start off collecting images within a colour family for my inspiration noticeboard...  a photograph of the noticeboard is in my samples sketchbook on the page above...

Then the fun starts as I start going through my huge collection of wools, yarns and fabrics... choosing colours that work within my chosen colour theme...

At which point I am ready to start sampling... I am thinking all the time about different weights of fabric and yarn... different textures... how the colourway will work together as a collection...

In my notebook I think about the different shapes and styles that I want to create in the collection... how they will look on the different Sasha dolls... which Sasha dolls I want to use for modelling each of the outfits...

and suddenly the collection is taking shape not just in my imagination... or on the page of my notebook... but on the Sasha dolls lined up on my shelf wearing beautiful outfits at different stages of development... and in my minds eye I can visualise what the new collection will look like when it is finished...