about me

My mother was seamstress and I remember long hours searching through haberdashery stores with her. Dusty old places that they were then. With huge wooden cabinets full of buttons and trimmings of all description and bolt after bolt of fabrics piled on top of each-other.  It was here that I developed a love with textiles with all its arrays of colours and prints. 

Latter as a young woman my love for nature lead me into environmental activism, joining Greenpeace I took part in many demonstrations and direct actions for a cause I still feel passionate about. Alas now in my fifties and disabled, direct action is no longer for me.

So it is with joy that both my love for the environments and fabrics should come together as I start my little online shop. Working from my small home in rural north Summerset.  I sew, embroider, knit and crochet using rescued scrap fabrics, yarns, beads, and findings that would otherwise join the 206.456 tonnes of textile waste that the UK produces each year.

I am not a seamstress like my mother but rather an environmental activist with a sewing machine. My style is informal, intuitive, and greatly influenced by rural life and nature. I never use patterns or fallow rules which makes each of my items unique in its homily, rustic style.

Breathing new life and usefulness into these fabrics brings me joy each day. Everything I make I make with love, and I hope they can bring you a little of that joy and love in a world that needs to change the way it shops and the way it discards.

Julie x