Journal

There’s a moment that many people reach in their sewing journey where something quietly shifts. Up until then, sewing has often been about following. Following instructions. Following seam allowances. Following...

Let me guess. You’ve finished a garment. You’re standing in front of the mirror. You tilt your head, tug a seam, smooth the fabric… and then that familiar thought creeps...

Why Fabric Behaves the Way It Does. One of the most common misunderstandings I come across during workshops is about fabric - its names and fibre types. People come a...

Fibershed began in California with a quietly radical question: What if the clothes we wear could be grown, processed, dyed and made within a defined bioregion? Founded in 2010 by...

I’ve been thinking a lot this week about comparison after what was just a throw away comment during a workshop. But it really hit home.  Comparison creeps in quietly, doesn’t...

 went to a natural dyeing workshop on Saturday and came away feeling quietly undone, in the best possible way.  Until then, I hadn’t realised how narrow my assumptions about natural...

For as long as I’ve been teaching, learning has happened around a table. Fabric spread out. Someone squinting at a seam. That pause before the scissors cut. The conversations that...

This time last year, I was preparing to run the first of the in-person workshops at the new Cloth Cutter Studios. It was the Love Your Overlocker workshop and coincidentally...

As part of my MA in Sustainable Fashion, I’ve been exploring how stories, land, and textiles connect, and rather unexpectedly, that exploration led me down a rather different country lane.

There is a quiet magic that arrives with winter. Not the glittery kind that shop windows insist on, but the soft, ancient magic that settles in as the days shorten...

We often start sewing because we want to make something tangible - a skirt that fits, a dress in our favourite fabric, a pair of trousers that actually feels like...

There’s a strange stillness that follows the end of something truly special.Everything that was moved around to accommodate the graduation has been returned to its usual place, the studio is...