An early start today, jumped on the sewing machine to get stuck into my new project with Swallowtail.

My drawings as below have been the inspiration for my design, Swallowtail Vintage Rag Dolls. 

After years of working in the fabric industry and a love for vintage fabrics, my numerous boxes of fabrics and trims are bursting at the seams, I must do something with them. 

I still have a doll my Nan made me sitting in the spare room with its quirky yellow gingham body, wool hair and 60s style body suit, so I asked myself, where have these much loved keepsakes gone these days? where are the Nana's and Grandma's that sew? Its all Barbie and Brats!!

Swallowtail Vintage Rag Dolls were born.