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BENEATH THE GRAIN

I actually don’t love sewing right now.

A small and honest contribution to Me Made May in a year where everything feels different.

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Quick unpicking my internalised homophobia

This blog was written for By Hand London and can be found here. I can recall the very particular moment when I started to wrestle with...

Sew Politik: why we need to understand sewing as a political act, and why it matters.

There is nothing innocent about sewing. Nothing apolitical about the act of reaching into your stash, gliding your fingers down the warp ...

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The Zadie Jumpsuit - Adjustments and Review

The headline is: I should not have waited a year from seeing this pattern to actually buying it and making it. And neither should you.

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The Sewing Room

The textiles room was down a corridor near the I.T. rooms, and next door to the food tech room which always smelled a little sour.