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I received a lovely letter in the post from my mum yesterday with a cutting from the Derby Telegraph, which is the local newspaper back home.

People wonder why I don't want to move back to land locked derby, well I think the first sentence sums it up..."sailing swimsuits"... They don't know what a wetsuit is!!

Free time!!

Well as you may have noticed I haven't posted for a while, but this is due to the fact I've been enjoying finishing uni and so spending my time out on the water!! sadly taking pictures while sailing isn't the most practical, so you have to rely on someone else, but thankfully one of the rescue boats took these cracking pictures of me and martin sailing on Sunday!!  It was so much fun!! the wind was only about 18-19 knots but had some mammoth gusts in the high 20's/ early 30's and the pictures are of us flying down wind on one of the gusts!

Brilliant fun!! im loving this year's windiness!! :D

The End of an Era!

Well Friday was my last ever hand in at uni!! I can't believe 3 years is over!! it has gone so quick!! Feels like yesterday I was a 1st year!! Our last hand in was our portfolio, I'm so proud of mine now, after much tweaking! here is a picture of the front page, I don't want to show any more than that on here, but trust me its great!! :D

Here is the front page! The writing is on tracing paper over the colourful stripes of my collection!

UCF Fashion Show 2011

Last night was finally our Uni graduate fashion show in Falmouth. Everyone's collections looked amazing!! I'm so proud of everyone!!! I'm not going to say any more at the moment, as it still hasn't sunk in yet that it is over and I've finished my 3 years at Falmouth already! Here are the pictures of my collection on the catwalk!

Yoga Wear

As I am currently putting my portfolio together it means lots of photo's of stuff I have made is in need of being photographed. I soon realised I never got round to photographing my Yoga wear project I did in my 1st year. I know normally you wouldn't put first year work in your final year portfolio, but I'm still really proud of that project! It was designed to be a multi functional garment that you can walk down the street in before or after a yoga lesson and no-one would notice it as yoga wear, they would just think they were normal clothes, but still allowing for all the movement and stretch required for this activity. The garment can be a pair of trousers, a skirt and a dress all in one!!! I personally don't know where this genius idea came from but I am glad I thought of it!!

As it has been a struggle to get hold of any photographers who were willing to take 20 minutes out of their day to photograph this outfit I decided to shoot it myself. And I think for a literally 20 minute photo shoot, I did quite well and I'm pretty proud of it!!

The garment as trousers

See how much freedom of movement the trousers gives!

The Skirt

The skirt doesn't restrict any movement and also no chance of accidentally flashing anyone!

As a Dress

Holds well and doesn't fall down! also giving the biggest freedom of movement, and I have personally worn this outfit out like this at night, and no-one knew it was a yoga outfit!

A big thank you to my fab model: Beth Spooner!

Final collection photo's

Here it is, final collection is handed in and after much stress i managed ti get a photographer to take some product shots of my suits in the studio!

Mens Full Suit

Womens Full Suit

Mens 3/4 Long John

Womens Long John

Thank you so much to my lovely models: Hannah Bryon-Staples and Oli Start. Many Thanks also to the photographer Rachel Stanley for fitting me in.

Restronguet Asymmetric Open 2011

We began this sailing year at Restronguet Sailing Club without a class captain, which meant no asymmetric open! :( I was quite upset by this, and so I have decided to take up the role and I am getting well into organising an open!! It isn't till September but as most sailors will plan their year of sailing events months in advance I am getting on it straight away!! My graphic designer friend Sarah has already designed the beautiful posters!!

If you sail an asymmetric dinghy and would like to come along please join the Facebook Event Page for all the updates, news and also I will be posting the NOR and SI's on there (when I have written them!)