Shadows to Starlight

✨ Stitched Dreams

By Puja Naik

Ruhi, a small-town girl with big-city dreams, wants to become a fashion designer—but the world around her has other plans.

Surrounded by poverty, family pressure, and a society that mocks ambition, Ruhi fights silently. Her parents want her married. Her brother mocks her every sketch. Her relatives call her “useless.” But Ruhi has a secret weapon: her dreams, her resilience, and her sketchbook.

By day, she’s a dutiful daughter.

By night, she stitches clothes for neighbors and studies in secret.

As judgments grow louder and her path grows darker, Ruhi must decide: will she sacrifice her dreams for others—or rise, thread by thread, to design a future of her own?

👗 A heartfelt story of:

• Silent rebellion
• Girls who dare to dream
• Fashion, family, and finding your voice

Some dreams aren’t stitched for comfort.

They’re stitched to survive