‘ I was once asked what I did for a job, which I wasn’t too sure how to reply, so I joked I ‘sew on the internet‘, which now has stuck.’
Holly Dennett is a fabric and sewing pattern designer, sewing content creator with over 130k followers on social media, is trained in Fashion Design, pattern cutting and a regular guest on Sewing Street. Holly is 35 and lives in south London with her partner and 2-year-old daughter. ‘ I was once asked what I did for a job, which I wasn’t too sure how to reply, so I joked I ‘ sew on the internet ‘, which then has stuck.’
Holly Graduated from The University of The Creative Arts with a high 2:1 in Fashion Design in summer of 2020. Due to the pandemic there was limited graduate positions within fashion and as well, Holly had to shield from Covid. So, she thought outside of the box, and she started sharing her designs, pattern drafting, draping and sewing on Instagram. She already had her Instagram account with an intermate following of around 2k that was created to act as a form of online portfolio sharing her fashion design work and studies, ready to go into industry as a patterncutter after graduation.
Within a year of posting her makes, she had grown a following to over 50K and by 2 years over 130k, making her one of the largest and well-known UK sewing accounts on social media. She had a vision for her social media content which was to share how amazing sewing and being creative was. She focused on sharing high skilled sewing tutorials providing home sewist with inspiration and education to elevate their own sewing. This has led to many opportunities to work with some of the biggest sewing bands on social media campaigns, creating sewing tutorials and demonstrating sewing products and presenting and educating sewing brands on social media within the sewing industry. Some of these brands include Prym, Groves, Dymo x Singer , Sewing Street, Cotton Craft, The Creative Craft Show , UCSI Stitches Trade Show, Fabrics Galore, Sew Over
It, Happy Fabrics, Rainbow Fabrics plus many more..
As well as sewing education, Holly has worked within sewing social media, talking at the Uk largest sewing trade show educating brands on how to create sewing social media content , grown and then maintain a social media following.
