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13/07/2026

Check out my new Sashiko coasters class this Saturday at You'll learn how to stitch and assemble Sashiko coasters using vintage Japanese indigo fabric and traditional Sashiko threads. Materials included. See link in bio to book

SAVE THE DATE!The Muswell Hill Creatives Summer Makers Fair will be on Saturday 27th June in our usual spot in St James'...
05/06/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

The Muswell Hill Creatives Summer Makers Fair will be on Saturday 27th June in our usual spot in St James' Square, outside the Everyman Cinema/Planet Organic in Muswell Hill.

I am working through the 23 kimono I bought on my recent trip to Japan to bring you a lovely selection of kimono silk loop scarves. I have some super new indigo shibori scarves and vintage cottons too… Please come see!

Date: 27th June 2026

Times: 10.30am to 5pm

Location: St James’ Square, Muswell Hill

Nearest tube: Bounds Green or Wood Green, buses

14/05/2026

I love Shibori stitching and a simple running stitch applied in different ways can make a huge variety of super patterns. The only limit is your imagination! In Japan patterns are often repeated as most fabrics were used to create kimono and Haori jackets and the 14 inch strips of fabric were pattern matched and sewn together to create the garments. I love the order of that but I also love a bit of randomness too! Katano patterns are very ordered and are seen thru carefully pleated fabric. Whip stitch patterns are more random and are made by overstitching all the layers at the sides and Mokume (woodgrain) patterns are created using 100s of rows of running stitches deliberately mismatched in adjacent rows. If this sounds fascinating to you, please join me at West Dean, Bloomsbury for my "Working the Line Shibori" course from 27-29 May. You'll learn how to prepare and stitch all these patterns and create examples of your own dyed with Dylon. See link in bio for more info and to book

13/04/2026

Yesterday I took my new otters on a journey around Tokyo. We visited my favourite haberdasher, Okadaya (Shinjuku station exit West, just past the giant screen with the cat!) they have everything you could need for your sewing and I never leave without buying something (and I've already been 4 times this trip!!) from there we jumped on the Marunouchi Line to Akasaka-Mitsuke to visit the Kioi Art Gallery, Tokyo's stencil museum. There are some truly amazing old stencils on display and we watched a great film about the techniques and purchased one or two nice small stencils... from there we jumped back on the Tokyo Metro to Omote Sando. This is Tokyo's designer district but, if you keep on walking down the hill to Harajuku and cross the big intersection, you come to Chicago, a cool vintage shop. The Japanese love old vintage American clothing but... there's also a whole room of vintage silk kimono, Haori jackets and Obi. Let's just say that a number of them will be winging their way across the globe to the UK, USA, Switzerland, Denmark and South Africa!! Today we met Bryan and have travelled to and settled in at the farmhouse. Shibori stitching and Katazome paste production is already well underway...!!

11/04/2026

Today I returned to Tokyo from my trip to Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train. I managed to capture a beautiful picture of Mount Fuji shrouded in snow on the way back. Today could have been a nothing day but I ventured out to Daikanyama to the "voice of nature" exhibition by Chiaki Maki at the hillside forum. Chiaki works with wild silks and beautiful natural dies making incredible artworks. The Gallery space is very restful with something unexpected at every turn. Such beautiful work.

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