Visible Mending & Slow Living

Pile of shirts and jumpers on wooden table waiting to be mended.

Spring Mending: Embellishing and Darning Lightw...

With spring weather just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to turn to the lighter pieces sitting in your repair pile. Learn my favourite repair techniques for Spring.

Spring Mending: Embellishing and Darning Lightw...

With spring weather just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to turn to the lighter pieces sitting in your repair pile. Learn my favourite repair techniques for Spring.

Motherhood as Mending

Motherhood as Mending

Somewhere between the morning rush and the quieter moments when the children are busy with their own worlds. It’s a moment to look back at the small threads that stitched...

Motherhood as Mending

Somewhere between the morning rush and the quieter moments when the children are busy with their own worlds. It’s a moment to look back at the small threads that stitched...

Sashiko Stitching: Strength, Story, and Springtime Style

Sashiko Stitching: Strength, Story, and Springt...

Sashiko is a traditional Japanese hand-stitching technique and was originally used to reinforce and reuse sturdy fabrics like cotton and indigo-dyed workwear. With simple running stitches forming geometric or linear...

Sashiko Stitching: Strength, Story, and Springt...

Sashiko is a traditional Japanese hand-stitching technique and was originally used to reinforce and reuse sturdy fabrics like cotton and indigo-dyed workwear. With simple running stitches forming geometric or linear...

How to Use the Typical Tools in a Sashiko Mending Kit

How to Use the Typical Tools in a Sashiko Mendi...

If you’re new to visible mending or Sashiko stitching, opening a mending kit can feel a bit like discovering a treasure chest. There are unfamiliar tools, unusual thread, curious needles,...

How to Use the Typical Tools in a Sashiko Mendi...

If you’re new to visible mending or Sashiko stitching, opening a mending kit can feel a bit like discovering a treasure chest. There are unfamiliar tools, unusual thread, curious needles,...

Why Mending Clothes?

Why Mending Clothes?

I strongly believe in the power of mending--not just as a practical skill, but as a meaningful way to reconnect with the things we already own. In a world driven...

Why Mending Clothes?

I strongly believe in the power of mending--not just as a practical skill, but as a meaningful way to reconnect with the things we already own. In a world driven...

hands moving a stack of fabric on a wooden table next to a cup of coffee

A Creative Approach – My Thoughts On Change

Autumn has interesting energy. It has always been my favourite season with its varied colour palette and the natural preparation for change and renewal. This awareness seems to take me...

A Creative Approach – My Thoughts On Change

Autumn has interesting energy. It has always been my favourite season with its varied colour palette and the natural preparation for change and renewal. This awareness seems to take me...