Projects

denim patchwork, 2025

Denim coverlet constructed from jeans loved, lost and worn. Reworked into a durable patchwork complete with pockets.

STAINED GLASS PATCHWORK, 2025

Inspired by the Korean patchwork technique of Bojagi, the coverlet is constructed with dyed cotton deadstock and hand-stitched together with enclosed seams, making the piece reversible.

Blue and orange quilt, 2025

Hand dyed, pieced and stitched patchwork quilt. Assembled with the fabric, templates and advice given to me by the quilting community of northeast England as part of my doctoral research into craftmaking and storytelling.

POSTCARD PATCHWORK, 2025

Salvaged postcards, printed and stitched with wash-away fabric

Marry, STITCH, DIE

2025

'MARRY
STITCH
DIE
OR DO
WORSE?'

Patchwork coverlet embroidered with the Victorian tenet of the feminine ideal.

Hand-Dyed patchwork

2024

Velvet epilogue quilt, 2024

This quilt is constructed from the scraps of all my previous blue projects.
Marking the end of a series.

BLUEBOOK, 2024

Textile book produced during fieldwork as an alternative way to record fieldnotes by replacing the pen with the needle.
Hand-stitched echo quilting on cyanotype pages reflects the time, rhythm, and experiences within the quilting communities of Manchester.

CYANOTYPE ON FABRIC (PIECE 2), 2024

Single layer coverlet made from a recycled cotton bedsheet, dyed and printed with collected flora and fauna.

Light cast through pieced fabric.

Cyanotype on fabric, (piece 3), 2024

Marble-dyed and hand-pieced textile suspended on netting. This piece is an evolution of the material expression of 'women's work', the feminine ideal and the quilter at the centre of her fabric universe.