Out shopping in a me-made outfit.

[jumper: ‘Romanesco’ by Ranti Studio – knitted by me; trousers designed and made by me]

#knit #sewing #fashion #menswear #plussizefashion #inclusivefashion

POV: you’re my #embroidery 🧵🪡

The festive season is my favourite – marzipan, and the joy of community, family, and friendship. So many opportunities to dress up too! My favourite! TB to last week’s Thom Browne party in Mayfair. [beret, jumper, kilt by me]

#mensfashion #styleinspo #mensstyle #plussizefashion #bigandtallstyle

Thank you! ❤️

Thank you so much! I got there in the end! ❤️

I’m very proud of this one, the fit, the design, the construction are all entirely from my brain from start to finish – I didn’t base it off any previous raglan I’d knitted, I sat there and did some maths.

Now celebrating having finally cast off after what felt like millennia!

#fastenistajumper – ✅ COMPLETE

Let me be clear, I really enjoy designing and making things, and although I started bits (and also the entirety of this jumper again multiple times), I can and am equally glad to have finished it!

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#plussizefashion

Thank you so much! I’m getting there! ❤️🧷

On the final leg… well, arm of my ‘Fastenista’ jumper!

Even though I’ve started this jumper from scratch three times, for some reason I’m still extremely excited to finish, block, and wear this one! 😂🧷

#knit #menwhoknit #plussizefashiondesigner #mensplussizefashion #plussizefashion

Came home with the coat of dreams today! And we all know, of course, you can never be too much green in your wardrobe. 💚
Swipe to the end for 400% more piglet in your life.

#fashion #ootd #mensfashion #styleinspo #mensstyle #streetstyle #whatiwore #plussizefashion #bigandtallstyle #lookgoodfeelgood

Third time may be the charm!

My #fastenistajumper is coming on leaps and bounds now. Fingers crossed I’ve got the fit the way I want it this time.

[yarn: De Rerum Natura Gilliat in ‘sel’ and ‘ébène’]

#dressthenation #knit #menwhoknit #plussizefashiondesigner
#plussizemenswear #inclusivedesign

*trial and error

This is exactly how I feel as well. When I’ve written patterns in the past, I start at the biggest size, because if it fits well on the biggest frame, then it will almost always also suit smaller frames (and if not – trail and error). Multiplying stitch counts does not a good fit make!

For no reason whatsoever, have two whole minutes of knitting #asmr, while I work on my #fastenistajumper!

The all-important question, if I were to write this up, would anyone actually be interested in knitting it? 😂🧷

#dressthenation #knit #plussizefashiondesigner
#inclusivedesign #ethicalplussize

I designed the motif for this jumper, and have since then knitted large parts of it at least twice before unravelling. Second picture to show the neatest floats I ever did knit.

#knitting #handmadeknitwear #knitspiration #knitstyle #plussizefashion #sizeinclusive #inclusivefashion

A mention has to go to the non-denominational caterpillar cake bag – I had a slightly insane idea to crochet a bag in a cake’s image and kind of just kept going. 😂

Well what an absolutely mad evening celebrating the premiere of @itv x @marksandspencer Dress the Nation Series 2!

Pretty proud of this outfit, made in approximately 24h, after a wobble over my planned outfit.

#plussizefashiondesigner #plussizemenswear #plussizemensstyle #inclusivedesign

It was so lovely to spend the day at The Festival of Quilts with Fine Cell Work a few weeks ago, discussing the fabulous work they do.

[shirt, tabard, and trousers made by me]

#festivalofquilts #sewing #quilting #crochet

The marble halls of the V&A ruined by me posing in things I’ve made. 😂

[trousers and bag designed and made by me]

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#plussizemenswear #plussizemensstyle #inclusivedesign #madeforcurves #ethicalplussize

Thank you! 🥹 I just make things I’d want to wear, and I’m glad other people like them too! 🥰

Thank you very much! I just find high street men’s clothes very boring, so I make things I want to wear! 😂

Thank you! 🥰

Me-made from top to toe (almost) ✨

Another outing for my hand-knitted and embroidered Cast-Off Croft, paired with a me-made and designed crocheted tabard, and trousers I sketched, stitched, and strutted into existence.

Slow fashion, boundless joy. #memade #handcraftedwardrobe #imademyclothes

Well, here it is! I stupidly decided to give myself eleven days to design and knit a lacy shirt(?) to wear for London Pride on Saturday – and did it in ten.

I knitted this in three pieces and then trimmed in crochet. I didn’t get any pictures at pride, but one taken on Sunday! #knitting

This! I had someone chastise me at work because I was eating prawn cocktail crisps, and they ‘thought I was allergic’. Like a prawn has ever been anywhere near a packet of crisps, they’re basically tomato and spice flavoured.

A man dressed in warm colours of orange. The trousers are patterned in orange, yellow, and blue. He is also wearing an orange striped t shirt and a hand-knitted orange vest with a necklace with dangling coins.

–OOTD–

In comparison to yesterday’s monochrome number, we’ve gone full-colour for Friday! We made it!

[trousers (actually dungarees) from @lucyandyak.bsky.social, vest designed and knitted by me, t-shirt from the back of my wardrobe]

A man standing with a knitted handbag which looks like a cottage, large parachute trousers, a vest, white shirt, and a blue neckerchief on some stone steps.

Me-made bag, trousers and scarf.

#fashiondesign #knitweardesign #imademyclothes #craftiverse

If I need them again I will always take them but this is the worst I’ve felt in a long while. The oppressive mugginess of London doesn’t help at all. I can feel a wave of sadness creeping over me, and my usual coping mechanisms don’t seem to be helping me this time.

The depression has hit today. There’s been a lot of adrenaline in the last few weeks, and I think I’m on a comedown. I find it hard to talk about it as someone who’s been about a year off antidepressants after a decade of taking them, because it makes me feel like I’m back-pedalling a bit.

Me too! I will say that I’ve had an uptick in people shouting homophobic things at me on the street. More in the last two years than in the previous decade. It really gets me down sometimes, but I suppose all I can do it continue to be visible and be myself.