Journal

There’s a peculiar kind of satisfaction that comes from not quite doing things the “proper” way sometimes. Not in a reckless, everything-must-burn kind of rebellion. But in that quieter, persistent...

There’s something about stepping away for a little while that makes coming back harder than you expect. We have just had the weekend away visiting my best friend. It was...

Spring is well on its way. And with it comes a different kind of energy. Not the forced fresh start of January, but something quieter and more natural. A gentle...

As I am working through the latest Module for my MA, I’ve been sitting with an idea that’s been gradually fermenting for a while now. It’s one of those ideas...

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...