An exhibition celebrating Print Gocco, featuring many Australian artists who use the Gocco to create their work. 

What is Gocco?

A self-contained compact color printing system invented in 1977 by Noboru Hayama. It’s similar to screen printing, but in a mini form.

When: Saturday 23rd March – 16th April

Time: Official exhibition opening at 2pm, Saturday 23rd March

Location: Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill NSW (Just opposite Summer Hill Station)

Demo: Print gocco demo 1.30pm, Saturday 6th April 

GOCCO ARTISTS 

Benconservato (NSW) is the alias of Emma Kidd an artist / illustrator. She has traveled and lived in Europe and a land of mythical animals. Her heart is still in both, despite loving being back in Australia. She encourages you to find your inner monster.

"I like the fact Gocco is accessible, compact and a little lo-fi, even if the later can drive you crazy if you had something else in mind."

Bubala (Jo Everett, NSW) Following a career in Graphic Design, and at home looking after her small children, Jo had extremely itchy feet for some hands-on creativity and starting creating personal and household items. This indulged her love of fabric, sewing and printmaking and also followed her philosophy that to live every day with things you love is good for the soul.

“Coming to Gocco after block and screen printing, I found it quite an unusual process but fun and inspiring. Gocco allows me to play with the precision of a computer generated design but with the feel of a hand made print, each one being slightly different - I love the fact that the Gocco process itself adds a little something of its own to your design: another dimension.  Added to that is the fact that you can print multiple copies really quickly and easily. Fantastic!”

Cat Rabbit (VIC) is a textile artist who predominantly creates anthropomorphised plush animals while imagining the worlds they might live in. Cat's practice is centred around the idea of making extraordinary objects out of humble materials. Working with soft sculpture and embroidery techniques, Cat creates one of a kind pieces for exhibitions, her online store and selected markets and retailers. 

Cat has created Owl Know How, a book for Children, with Isobel Knowles as well as being featured in many publications such as Frankie, Peppermint and Yen.

-- Gocco forever!

Do A bit (Lamina Godman, NSW) lives in lovely sunny Sydney, where she  indulges her passion (obsession) for screen printing textiles, sewing and her love for making beautiful handmade items. She believes there is nothing better than handmade and to "do a bit” creatively… everyday makes her one very happy lady!

"I love the rustic and slight imperfections that Gocco printing achieves, it's such a fun and inspiring way to print!"

Emma Simmons (Emmajane illustration, NSW) is an illustrator and graphic designer. As a compulsive collector of shapes, textures, patterns and fabrics, she has a huge source of inspiration to draw from, but she needs a bigger cupboard. Much of her work is collage based, she relishes getting away from the computer and doing things by hand. Interests and influences include: Art Deco, Nouveau, Monet, block printing, Poster art from the 20's through to the 50's.

"Gocco is an fun way to create on a small scale. It's a self contained mini form of screen printing, that will fit on your kitchen table. You can get some great and surprising effects by manipulating your paint colours and density." 

Ghost Patrol Works and lives in Melbourne Australia. A self taught artist, Ghostpatrol has moved from the field of stencil art to exhibit his drawing based creations worldwide. He currently resides in Melbourne at his ‘Mitten Fortress’ studio. His work ranges form fine ink drawing, street-art, commissioned murals and soft sculpture.

Ghostpatrol creates worlds. His ongoing exploration of hybrid animals and forests travels across mediums; from pasted posters to soft sculpture, watercolours and printmaking. His work often references childhood nostalgia and pop culture, with often quite sinister and playful undertones. From beginnings in stencil and street art, his current practice focuses on ambitious installation and painting projects.

John D-C (NSW) is a Graphic Artist and his creative projects are heavily influenced by his  many interests and hobbies. These usually include a healthy combination of Brick-A-Brack, Screen Printing, Rock & Roll Dancing, Blues Piano, Velvet Dinner Jackets, Art Deco Theatres, Record Shopping, The Creations Of Jim Henson, Ten Pin Bowling, The Hohner Harmonica, 1979 Bedford Short Wheel Based Vans, Print Gocco, Vintage Comic Books, White Elephant Stalls, Animation, Drive-in Movies and Cuba. 

"I first became aware of the Gocco via the failed Save Gocco campaign, and It was love at first sight. I couldn't believe such a wonderfully amazing machine actually existed and had existed since the 1970's in Japan. Gocco has quickly become my favorite creative medium and I tend to plan most of my illustrations around its low-fi idiosyncrasies. I love gocco prints, they are instantly recognisable and I feel that they have a beautiful old world charm about them, which is impossible to re-create in photoshop." 

Magic Jelly is South Australian artist and illustrator Karena Colquhoun. Both nostalgic and modern, her work mixes collage, printmaking, pencil and paint, with good old-fashioned digital technique. You will find her most days in her small home studio, listening to vintage radio plays and bebop, whilst playing with paper and ink.

"Those intriguing little ads in the back of comic books were an early obsession (I really wanted one of those coffin-shaped money boxes where a skeletal hand raked in your 10c pieces!). I loved the way ink & paper interacted - the way the ink bled & mingled with the cheap pulpy paper, the off-registration, the halftones - & that love of print stayed with me into adulthood, & made its way into my digital artwork, where I enjoy emulating print effects & textures. When I first set eyes on the Print Gocco in 2005 I couldn't believe that such a fantastic contraption actually existed - I couldn't wait to get my hands on one! I ended up buying four different models, my favourite being the classic light blue B6.

I love the fact that the Gocco was originally sold as a toy & has been appropriated by artists (like me) who love its low-tech charm. I love the fact that it makes small format prints & captures such fine detail. I love the unique quality of the prints themselves, kind of a cross between a screen print & a relief print. I love that fact that gocco is so accessible to anyone who wants to give printmaking a try - no need for a huge print shop (the kitchen table will do nicely!) or masses of cash. Most of all, I love the gocco's frustrating little idiosyncrasies that teach you to embrace imperfections as happy little accidents."




Meredith Walker-Harding is a part time puppeteer, tour organiser & ukelele player; full time tea drinker, pineapple enthusiast, crafter and sweet treat baker for Sprout & Bean catering.

Only a cute little japanese machine like the Gocco could turn my scratchy little sketch into a lovely, character-filled print! 



The Seven Seas is a multi disciplinary artist working with sculpture, illustration, installation and rap drawings. He spends the majority of his time cultivating his facial hair while watching cartoons and dreaming about expeditions through forests in far away lands in search of unknown creatures.

I hope Gocco will have a second wind and live a prosperous eternal life.

MOST 2013 - Artist Talk with Beth Taylor

Sweets Workshop is talking part in MOST 2013 (Marrickville Open Arts Trail), which is on this weekend, 9th - 10th March. 

This Saturday the MOST Artcycle is on, starting at Hollis Park and finishing in Summer Hill. We will be here at Sweets Workshop to greet all the cycling art lovers at the end of their tour with fabulous pieces by local and Australian artists. More information can be seen on the MOST Artcycle events here

On Sunday 10th March we will be presenting a special talk with Beth Taylor, the creator of 'Home' – an installation all about finding beauty in daily life. Beth will talk about the origin of her idea, why it's important to make art and how she fits it into her daily life as well as why she wanted to have a multimedia component to her show. www.home.wizzybliss.com

We will be open from 10am - 5.30pm on Saturday and 11am -4pm on Sunday, as part of the MOST 2013. We hope to see you over the weekend! 

Interview with Beth Taylor about her upcoming exhibition 'Home'

What's the concept behind your exhibition 'Home' 

It's a celebration of the comfort, inspiration, frustration, mess and happiness of home life. Like everything I do, it's about the beauty of the every day.

What can people expect to find in your show?

• A huge photo collage made up of about 1,000 photos taken over the past year in and around our house.
• Images of homing pigeons in flight around the room. (See below for the story behind this).
• A website with 'home' themed content made by myself and other artists and writers. There will be audio, video, photography and writing on there: home.wizzybliss.com

This video (below) shows a small sample of the photographs used in the exhibition. http://youtu.be/gSdA6sjpUyc

What inspired you to document home life?
The project started with a fortuitous meeting with some pigeons actually! I have always had a fascination with homing pigeons and there are quite a lot in the Inner West. I love watching them fly up and down in formation. One day I was out taking photos around our area and saw some pigeons flying around. A guy came up to me and asked me why I was photographing them. I said that I thought they were beautiful and he proudly told me they were his birds and asked me back to his place to take a closer look. While I was there he did another run of the birds and I was amazed at their grace and skill. They all moved as one, doing cool tricks in the air and then swooping back to earth. That morning I had been grumpy that it was an overcast day, meaning that the light was quite flat for photos, but the cloudcover made a huge light-box in the sky! I was so excited when I looked at the photos back at home. The pigeons (below) were luminous and inspiring.

I started thinking how I could turn these photos into an exhibition. I decided that a whole exhibition of pigeons wouldn't work, but what stuck with me was the way that even though the pigeons are free to leave, they always choose to go home. I found that really poignant, and I could identify with it. This inspired me to document my life in our home. A place I choose to return to again and again.

Up until having a child, home was a place I slept in and sometimes entertained in, but I didn't spend very much time there. I was either out working or socialising. But that's totally changed now - I rarely go out at night, and on the days I'm not working I spend a big chunk at home with Leo. It took me a long time to adjust to that life and enjoy it.



Photography had to be the medium because it's so fast and it's something my son lets me do while I'm with him. We both enjoy ourselves because taking photos makes me happy, and he loves to see them after I take them.

I've always been interested in the beauty of everyday things, and I find Leo's interest and enthusiasm for the world very inspiring. He is alive to the simplest beauty - whether it be a flash of light or a chalk mark on a brick wall. We enjoy doing craft together and that's often a process I photograph too.

I am a bit of a hoarder and I love making lists and categorising things, so documenting our lives really appealed to me.

I would be so happy if people who come to the exhibition went home and looked at some of the items they've seen a million times - like tangled cords and washing on the line - in a different way.


Did you learn anything about home life that took you by surprise?
I have learned:
I've grown up a lot but I'm still a big kid! When I was a teenager I used to cover my walls in images I liked (bands and singers, actors, pictures of animals and landscapes, tickets to concerts – pictured below), and this is actually turning out to be a lot like that. The big difference is that I've taken the images myself. 

I'm naturally messy but I don't like other people's mess - which is very unfair of me! As a mum it's expected that you keep your house clean and tidy and I have times where I freak out about the state of the house with a pre-schooler effortlessly wrecking the joint. I used these photographs as a way of reminding myself that good enough is good enough and perfection is not only empty but unattainable. A couple of times I moved something to try and get a better photo, or wiped away some dust, and I just couldn't use those photos in the end because they didn't ring true.

We have a lot of cords! Rechargers, power cords, earphones and file transfer cables - you name it. They are everywhere, and people usually hide that sort of thing when they take photographs of their homes. I'm embracing them as beautiful objects.

I really love colour and pattern and light and flowers and my loved one's faces.They put a song in my heart.

You have created a multimedia exhibition, can you tell us about the different approaches you have taken and why? (Photography, collage, digital)
My last exhibition at Sweets was a sculptural interpretation of the solar system made out of melted breadtags. Where do you go from there?!

Growing up, photography was the first art practice that totally made sense to me. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a documentary photographer, and then I discovered documentary film at uni and was convinced that was my calling. But after following my dream for a while, I ended up coming back to photography, which was a much more inexpensive medium, and something I could do on my own with what little spare time I had. Its immediacy is incredible.

This exhibition combines all my interests: documentary photography, collecting and classifying things, installation work (which I find more submersive for an audience), writing, audio and video production and multimedia and web design (I work in multimedia), and collage (much like with the breadtags - the process is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle - it's quite meditative). Appropriately enough, creating this work has been like coming home.

Christmas Market

We've got that Christmassy feeling, the tree is up and we have loads of gift ideas in stock for Christmas. 

More works from artists such as:

John D-C, Emma Simmons, Emma Kidd, Herbert & Friends, Meredith Walker-Harding, Melissa Hartley, Jo Everett, Me & Tex and Do A Bit.

At Sweets Workshop we've had a busy few months producing our new Food Fight calendar for 2013, launched a new range of Christmas card designs and (a shop favourite) the Summer Hill map tote bag. Also new to Sweets Workshop are men's and women's T-shirts, designed by John D-C, made and screen printed in Australia. 

Sweets is introducing new frames for our artwork which are carbon neutral and produced by Corban & Blair up the road in Lewisham. 

Snack Attack Artists & Writers Announced!

John D-C 

John Debono-Cullen is a graphic artist & his creative projects are heavily influenced by his many interests & hobbies. These usually include a healthy combination of bric-a-brac, screen printing, rock & roll dancing, blues piano, velvet dinner jackets, art deco theatres, record shopping, the creations of Jim Henson, ten pin bowling, the hohner harmonica, 1979 bedford short wheel based vans, print gocco, vintage comic books, white elephant stalls, animation, drive-in movies & Cuba.

Emmajane illustration 

Emma Simmons is an illustrator & graphic designer. As a compulsive collector of shapes, textures, patterns & fabrics, I have a huge source of inspiration to draw from – but I need a bigger cupboard. Much of my work is collage based, I relish getting away from the computer and doing things by hand. 

Amanda Kelshaw

Happiest when trawling through mint condition, vintage magazine finds and serendipitously stumbling upon the twee, the typographical and other word meets design jackpots from original sources. This fine tooth comb is Robert Rauschenberg meets Nigella Lawson at a mid-century soirée.

Anais Taylor 

Anais Taylor is a designer & illustrator inspired by nature and her local farmers markets. She aims to create art to inspire people to live more seasonally and sustainably. 

Benconservato 

Emma Kidd works in a room of black painted paper, paint, metal brads & disjointed limbs. Full pieces of paper & scraps litter most surfaces in her flat (she even finds paper pieces in bed). She carefully creates each body, feather & expression, then pieces them together to create creatures that wriggle & dance.  

Bev Malzard 

Bev Malzard is a woman of significant age. For decades, even before the new millennium, she has worked as a journo, mainly in travel writing. In her journeys she has always been on the lookout for great food. She eats it, photographs it and writes about it. Sweet and savoury: but sweet wins her heart every time – she thinks there should be a little sugar in everyone’s life. 

Bonnie Boogaard 

I see that different foods like different people each have their own personality. I like to create situations involving these food characters that are humorous and relatable. I have been working with food in my art for the last 3 years in both watercolour & sculpture. Food is a great passion of mine, as well as an easily relatable subject for the public. 

Carmen Hui
Carmen Hui is an illustrator/graphic designer from Sydney's Inner West. With a compulsive obsession to document and illustrate everything around her, Carmen attempts to shine a new light on what most people over look and consider ordinary.

Dawn Tan 

With an immense love for food, Melbourne artist & illustrator Dawn Tan creates art inspired by all things delicious. Her work has been featured in magazines & publications such as Frankie Magazine, Yen Magazine and InsideOut and on notable blogs such as The Design Files, Finders Keepers Blog and Desktop Magazine. Ranging from giant food sculptures, to meaty pillowcases, ice cream softies, recipe paintings & even melamine wares; Dawn is unstoppable when it comes to dreaming & whipping up food inspired art! 

Fiona Roderick 

I am a printmaker, usually creating prints of the harbour & flora and fauna, but have been drawn to collage recently; strangely as much as I am drawn to dark chocolate. So a collage using chocolate wrappers was the perfect combination. 

Genevieve Carr & David Graham 

David Graham & Genevieve Carr are a Newcastle and Summer Hill based couple. Their work is a collaboration between David’s writing and Genevieve’s visual art which capture an absurd & surreal vision of the world. Currently completing an honours in Arts & Fine Art respectively they intend to continue working together in 2013 in a series of different formats. 

Herbert & Friends 

Herbert & Friends is a Sydney based softie label created by artist Torunn Higgins. Combining her love of nature, fabric and design, Torunn’s creations take on a life of their own. Her range of softies brings together an odd collection of friends, from turtles to alpacas & anteaters. These quirky characters get up to all kinds of mischief & each one comes with a little account of their latest adventure. The creatures are handmade using recycled felt, up-cycled & new cotton fabrics.

Kate Allan

Vegetarian. Cat lover. Baker. Sewer. When she’s not being Mrs Sprout of Sprout & Bean catering, Kate is looking after her handyman husband & several furry & feathered kids in a rust coloured cottage on top of a mountain. If she’s not busy in the garden growing beans, she’s wielding a knife in the kitchen murdering carrots. 

Lily Edelstein

I’m a 16 year old living in Haberfield, gradually filling my family home with zombies, vampires & morbid imagery. I have a tendency to describe skulls & bats as adorable, & to give impromptu lectures on issues surrounding gender. Teenage goth I may be, using my interests to represent themes I have opinions on: inequality, ignorance, selfishness and materialism frequent my creations. 

Mahani Del Borrello 

With a background in graphic design & photography, Mahani is used to creating artwork with the aid of machines. Feeling nostalgic for a simpler life & with a desire to add more hand-crafted elements to her work, Mahani has begun experimenting with illustration and various printing techniques. Mahani is currently studying printmaking at COFA & aims to incorporate her love of design & photography into her prints. 

Meredith Walker-Harding
Part time puppeteer, tour organiser & ukelele player; full time tea drinker, pineapple enthusiast, crafter & sweet treat baker for Sprout & Bean catering.

Narelle Adair Coxhead

I’m a freelance designer and illustrator who lives in the Inner West. I like working both by hand and with my trusty old Mac. For some years I've participated in print portfolio exchanges and group exhibitions with digital works, but this year I’ve done some workshops in traditional printmaking and hope to build on these skills. I’ve worked as a graphic artist/illustrator and studied both visual arts and textile design. My current interests include retro fabrics, 1950’s design; the Paisley motif and the textural possibilities of monotypes. A fan of the still-life genre, I’m fascinated by the strange Dutch Vanitas paintings of the 17^th century. 

Nia May

My papercuts illustrate a curious, two-dimensional world foxes, teapots, skeletons, birds & little girls lost. There are no brushstrokes or subtle distinctions of tone & shade in this place – only the edge the scalpel creates – evoking a benign kind of humour & wistfulness for the folly and fantasy of childhood. I make them by using a sharp knife while drinking lots of tea; and my house is often filled with confetti.

Sheree Evelina 
Sheree Evelina is a brand designer and illustrator with a passion for drawing black & white pencil sketches: while sitting in her sunny room in the attic beside her monkey toy; chatting with people in the park/café and munching on her favourite snack, muesli with yogurt. She feels happiest when creating illustrations that tell stories and make people smile.

Shiztastic
I am Katy Dee and I'm a human magpie, if I were a bird I would live in a nest the size of the moon. I love to collect, stamp, mix, stick and sew to create handmade eclectic shiz. I love nothing more than to rummage in an op-shop to find old and special things to make into something new. I wish they could tell us their story, where they have been and what they have seen. Using a mixture of new and found things I mix it all up to make a shiztastical item...whether it be jewellery, homeware or a soft furnishing.

Why Not James
The story of Why Not James is true in my mind, I remember being told many years ago that my naming was left right up to when the last minute was called. I imagine this, the moment my parents said Why not James? Why Not James, for everyone deserves their 15 minutes of fame. 

Food Fight Exhibition & Publication launch 2012

Our thanks goes out to all of the artists and writers who submitted pieces for this year's SNACK ATTACK edition! The big exhibition and calendar launch will take place on Sunday the 7th October for the Summer Hill Food Festival as a part of Crave Sydney. The festival will be a fun day, come along to experience some of Summer Hill best gourmet delights and to see some amazing new talent.

Stay tuned to our website, we will soon be announcing the artists featured in this year's SNACK ATTACK exhibition and calendar.

Date: Sunday 7th October

Official Opening: ALL DAY

Where: Sweets Workshop, Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill 2130

Exciting NEW publication Format Announced For FOOD FIGHT 2012

We are happy to announce that  Food Fight, the Snack Attack Edition will be produced as a calendar this year!

If you submit your written piece or artwork for Food Fight, the Snack Attack Edition, you have a chance to be featured in the exhibition, and/or limited edition calendar. If you are featured in the Food Fight event, you will receive a free copy of the publication and a bio on our website. 

Sweets Workshop has two major prizes up for grabs. From all of the entries received, Sweets Workshop will select the best artistic and written entries. The winning artist will receive a solo exhibition in 2013. The winning writer will receive a Sweets Workshop gift voucher. 

Get your Snack Attack entries in! The deadline of the 1st September is fast approaching. 

The selection criteria for Food Fight will be at the discretion of Sweets Workshop. The Artists prize for a solo exhibition in 2013 includes the use of the Sweets Workshop exhibition space and free promotion material including flyer, poster and e-invite produced by Sweets Workshop. The Writers prize, a Sweets Workshop gift voucher, is valid on all stock at Sweets Workshop. 

Call out for FOOD FIGHT submissions 2012

The SNACK ATTACK – Edition

Food Fight is a yearly collaborative exhibition and accompanying publication produced by Sweets Workshop. The publication will be taking on an exciting all new format, which we will talk more about in the coming weeks!  Food Fight is all about food, pitting image against text, recipe against illustration, photograph against story. In the ring this year – SNACK ATTACK!!

We’re calling for submissions from artists and writers to contribute to the exhibition and publication. What we’re looking for are illustrations, design, photography, recipes, stories, poems and so on, that focus on the theme Snack Attack. It could be about your favourite snack, place to snack or an attack of the snack! 

The exhibition will run from 7th of October to 14th November 2012, with the launch of the publication on the 7th to co-inside with the Summer Hill Food Fair. YUM! The publication will be a limited edition print run. To have a look at what was on offer in previous years for  The Sweet Tooth Edition and The Pack a Picnic Edition.

If your artwork is selected it may feature in the publication and/or the exhibition (where it can be offered for sale). Any written piece or artwork chosen to be included in the Food Fight publication or exhibition will receive a free copy of the publication. 

 Submissions close on the 1st of September 2012. Email us your entry as a low res electronic file (pdf or jpg) to info@sweetsworkshop.com. If your work is chosen, we will contact you for high res files. If working digitally please make sure you work to 300dpi, and if working by hand we can organise high res scans. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in contributing. 

For those of you who don’t know about Sweets Workshop we are a retail art gallery which exhibits and stocks art, decorative objects, giftware and independent publications with a strong focus on locally handmade items. Located in Summer Hill, our aim is to offer the community something original, sweet and within reach. We have a dedicated exhibition space, which can feature one particular artist/designer, object, artistic process or theme at a time. The exhibitions change regularly to incorporate as many artists and designers as possible. For information about us please visit our website www.sweetsworkshop.com

The selection criteria for Food Fight will be at the discretion of Sweets Workshop. 

Interview with Crafter Katy Dee

The exhibition 'Stitchester' runs from 
14th July – 14th August 2012

What's the concept behind your exhibition and what can people expect to find in your show?

Stitchester is a fictional fabric village.

I wanted to create a tactile, fun and colourful experience using some of my favourite fabrics and materials to bring back nostalgic memories for myself and others.

People will find whimsical treats from the lolly shop, house and fruit shaped cushions to sculptures and Illustrations of the village itself.

What are the mediums and processes you use to create your works?

Each piece is a unique one off. I sketch and design the ideas of the shapes I would like to make then I hand-make a pattern for each item. Each one has a different process depending on the details. The details on the pieces are always done first then I sew it and up stuff it. The little sculptures are free-form patterns usually, finished with a brooch pin hand-sewn onto the back or left alone as a soft sculpture.

I have used a variety of fabrics, beans and stuffing. Choosing and matching the fabrics is a huge part of the process as I like to take time and care to think about what looks and works best together.

You use some lovely patterns and materials, where do you find them?

I love old fabrics and sourcing them... I trawl through op-shops and garage sales, and online stores selling vintage items to find kitsch/chintzy/fun fabric, the bolder and brighter the better! I do have a bit of a thing for floral patterns. I also use newer fabrics as you can’t always find what you need, but I try to buy handmade or vintage whenever I can. It adds something special to a piece and makes it even more unique.

When did you start creating soft sculptures?

About a year and a half ago I started making soft birds, hearts and shapes which have ranged in size from small to very big. I love starting with a sketch or just an idea in my head then making it 3D and somehow more real. It is like giving it life! It’s very exciting filling it up and seeing how it takes shape.

How would you describe your style?

Quirky, colourful and fun. I have always loved bold and bright colours and am known for clashing things together which is dominant in my work. I like to mix and match, play with scale and have fun. I like my work to be enjoyed more than appreciated.

What inspires your work?

I am always looking for inspiration, I read a lot of blogs and am always on the net gawking at something pretty. I also like to get out there and just look. For this project in particular I found myself leaving craft corner to explore the Sydney suburbs for different styles of buildings.

Colour, print and texture inspire me every day.

I have always been inspired by handmade craft and traditional methods with a modern twist. I believe the things we own and wear should be as unique as us. This inspires me to create and to learn new skills.

Stitchester is a whimsical nostalgic memory of English villages captured in fabric, I am from a small town on the south coast of England, surrounded by villages that are very cute, very individual and very old. I enjoyed thinking about visiting Stitchester and the unique things I would like to buy there. I wanted to make these ideas real in fabric for me, and as a tactile experience for others.