OUR STORY

After years in the business of communications, content making and strategising for brands, magazines and online media, the two of us (Susan Smith & Emma Bannister) realised that we spent out of hours time chatting about our various personal creative projects. 

 

“I had a small studio set up next to my artist husband with a loom to hand weave rugs. I also have a space devoted to all things sewing. It was when I signed up for a Merchant & Mills week-long sewing class that I realised my lifelong passion for fashion - I studied Fashion at University - was more than just shopping for garments and poring over designer looks, and that actually I wanted to create my own pieces.” SS.

 

“I started my making career in a much more chaotic way, as a teenager splatter painting sheets stretched out in my garden to then sew into rough and ready outfits to wear that night, usually inspired by singers like Clare Grogan or Debbie Harry. That creative impulse did in fact translate into a four year degree course at St Martins School of Art.”  EB.

 

The chatting all things fashion, fabric and sewing led us to Make Me Tonight!

 

We wanted to make something for existing and wannabe sewists who lack time and have a need for speed & ease by creating patterns that have a nod to high end fashion silhouettes but that also eliminate complexity.

 

By creating patterns that work together as a capsule wardrobe we want to free makers to indulge their love of fabric, colour and individuality.  The patterns also contain some adaptable elements, allowing the pieces to be switched up and built onto.  It let’s you play with the idea of a more sustainable wardrobe with increased wear-life so you can “Make me tonight, reinvent me tomorrow!”

 

Most of all we wanted to create patterns that bring utter joy into making & dressing up.