' Sky Garden' for Lewis and Irene

I just had to pause and double check my maths, because I am about to announce my latest fabric collection in collaboration with Lewis and Irene and while it only feels like yesterday that I was designing my first ever range, this is in fact number thirteen! Where has the time gone?! So without further a-do, please meet my thirteenth collection, 'Sky Garden.'

When designing, sometimes I will have a collection planned a few seasons in advance, and this was one of those collections. 'Sky Garden' started with the title. I loved the juxtaposition of the two words, not a garden in the sky but how a garden could be viewed from a different angle. Whilst I was ruminating on this title, I also had a colour palette which I was developing. Soft sage greens, pale pinks and rusty orange started to emerge. This palette was beginning to encapsulate the late summer/ early autumn feeling which I wanted to evoke. By the time I was ready to start developing the collection, I already had an idea of which flowers I wanted to draw and the pattern layouts, so from here it came together very quickly.

For each collection I design, I always write a poem and from the initial concept, I found that this one flowed extremely easily. By beginning and ending the poem with a question I wanted to leave the reader questioning the traditional view of what a garden really is.

What if we’ve perceived it wrong?

We’ve been misguided all along.

We’ve looked at it the wrong way round,

A garden isn’t seen just from the ground.

Ask any bird or butterfly

Their view from so way up high.

Let them take you on an aerial odyssey,

Over wintersweet and pods of honesty,

Fluffy clouds in a floral sea.

Next to ivy hedgerows tipped in white

Leafy tendrils reaching up in delight.

Ahead branches dip in the Autumn breeze,

While sunlight filters through the leaves,

As it dances around the boughs of trees.

Casting out a verdant scene,

Turning everything to shades of green.

Berries that taste of honey dew,

Where the air is sweet, and the sky is blue.

Nothing compares to this lofty view.

Of sparkling jewels in the low, bright sun,

An opulent display not to be out done.

How could we, you or I,

Compare anything to this garden in the sky?

Featuring autumn berries, rambling roses, verdant canopies, wintersweet, pods of honesty and leafy ivy tendrils this collection for me has a beautiful, romantic quality to it. All of the patterns are tossed prints, enabling them to fit seamlessly into your latest projects.

You can find ‘Sky Garden’ in all good fabric shops from November 2025. For a sneak preview of the full collection just click HERE.