So here it is my first ever blog! The purpose of this blog is to share my thoughts, designs and anything fun and arty! Now that I'm settled into my lovely new flat in Manchester after relocating from Newcastle, I've started designing again in any free time I have! After checking up on printpattern.blogspot.com I came across a sock design competition which I thought would be interesting to have a go at!
Sock It To Me sells fun, funky, quirky, playful socks. This collection of words says everything about the work I LOVE to design. Keeping those descriptive words in mind here is a sneaky peek at one of my first designs from my collection I'm entering....
Whilst finding out about the American based company I was happy to find some inspiring words from the owner of Sock it to me...."With a good job history, college degree, and earnest motivation, I found it hard to believe that I couldn't find work—let alone, work that was satisfying. It was then I remembered amazing socks I had fallen in love with in Korea while teaching English there years earlier. They were thick, stretchy, colorful, and affordable. They were unique, and I really liked them. I thought people back in the States might also like them. So after a good year and a half of deliberation, I decided to go forward, and—taaa daaa!—Sock it to Me was born in 2004."
All you need is an idea, a lot of motivation, hard work and dedication, a lovely big messy desk full of meaningful scribbles, fabrics, stitches, prints and paints and people who believe in you :) If you fail? Try and try again. Never ever give up!
Much Love
Elaine
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