My name is Ruth Maddock and I trained as a fashion designer at the University of the Creative Arts.
More recently, I went back to Art College to gain a Masters. For this I looked initially at ‘Designing for Happiness’ and then became interested in designing clothes for children who don’t like clothes.
As a result, I created a range of children’s sewing patterns – that I continue to add to.
These patterns are created so that the garments have no internal seams or itchy, scratchy bits.
They have options for fastenings and many of them can be worn either way around. Some are even interactive. Most of them can be made by sewists of all abilities.
Here is note from the mum of one of my models:
“He couldn’t wait to put them on. I showed him the clothes designed and made especially for people who don’t like edges or labels or scratchy bits like you, with special seams and the t-shirt that can be worn both ways, so you don’t have to worry about getting it wrong” he said that he’d rate them 100% amazing, and asked “Did he have to give them back?” He agreed to take them off only when I hinted that a larger size might be available and that if he was happy to model for you there might be the possibility of getting hold of some that he could keep. He said, “Great clothes that don’t hurt!”
Links to Ruth Maddock Makes
Click here to see the free t-shirt sewing pattern
