Wendy Ward

After working as a designer in the fashion industry for seven years, in 2007 Wendy began teaching dressmaking and pattern cutting in Brighton, UK. By 2012, she had opened MIY Workshop in central Brighton to teach her own sewing and pattern cutting classes. In 2019 Wendy re-located back to her hometown of Sheffield in the foothills of the glorious Peak District.

Wendy has a degree in Fashion Design, an MA in Design and is a qualified teacher. She had her own column in Love Sewing magazine for 3 years from 2015 to 2018 and contributed 4 popular series to Sewing World magazine between 2013 and 2015.

An advocate of sustainable fashion having worked for a fair trade organic cotton brand for four years, Wendy is passionate about empowering people to create their own style, interpret fashion in their own way and re-connect with the joy of making.

MIY Collection (Make-It-Yourself Collection) is Wendy's sewing pattern brand which focuses on modern everyday styles that can be created by sewers with little or lots of experience and easily adapted to suit the maker's own style. Find MIY Collection online at www.miycollection.com.

Wendy blogs about sewing, making, fashion, sustainability and life at: www.wendyward.co.uk

When not sewing or creating, Wendy is to be found outdoors, usually in the Peak District National Park near her home in Sheffield, walking with her rescue dog Marmite.