Exercise for Your Fingers

It’s 2017 a new year, a new slate to start on and you may or not have set resolutions; less sugar, more exercise, save money perhaps. If like me you want to make more textiles this year how about taking a short course in learning different techniques? Exercise for your fingers! Here’s a list of…

Time on Their Hands

“Fine Cell Work trains prisoners in paid, skilled, creative needlework undertaken in the long hours spent in their cells to foster hope, discipline and self esteem. This helps them to connect to society and to leave prison with the confidence and financial means to stop offending.” I met up with Kate the Commissions Consultant and…

Prints on Prints

I met Ola through our mutual friend Lynette in 2014 when I moved to Paris to teach English. I knew we’d have a lot in common before I even met her; born in London to Nigerian parents, living in Paris and loves textiles just like me. Two years later and I count her as a…