 Sterling also designed the cover for Magazine's 1978 debut album "Real Life" and was known for her 'menstrual jewellery' (beads and ear-rings made of broken coat hangers with absorbent lint dipped in translucent glue and painted red, in order to resemble bloodied tampons) and the mythical 'menstrual egg-timer' (a series of beads with different colours – red, white and purple – devised to chronicle the cycle from ovulation to menstruation) that she designed for Tony Wilson's Factory Records (designated Fac 8), which never entered production.She collaborated on a short film called "Red Dress", a rare Factory/New Hormones project.In 1978, she co-founded the post-punk group Ludus, and she remained its singer until the group split in 1983.