Category: Work With Me
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Making Connections
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My own textile work alongside Mary Linwood’s In August, before the Mary Linwood exhibition opened, I took all the work I had made for the exhibition for a photo shoot in St Margaret’s Church, Leicester. This is the church where Mary Linwood is buried and it seemed like the perfect atmospheric location for me to…
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Lost Threads: Mary Linwood’s Legacy
Exhibition catalogue by Ruth Singer is now available The gorgeous exhibition catalogue is now ready to order online! This is a lovely 60 page A5 booklet full of wonderful images of Mary Linwood’s embroidery and my own work photographed in the atmospheric St Margaret’s Church. This catalogue includes all the exhibition text and captions for…
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Rediscovering Mary Linwood
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A talk by Ruth Singer exploring the fascinating history of this great Leicester artist I could talk about Mary Linwood for hours but I am limiting myself to just one hour – and it will be one very special hour in the beautiful Leicester Guildhall, a building Mary Linwood must have known too. I”ll be…
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Installing the Mary Linwood exhibition
Behind the scenes of the final stages of the exhibition (which is now open!) The last couple of weeks have been frantic, finishing everything off for the Mary Linwood exhibition. I spent a week sewing up the last few things, framing and finishing my work, then packing it all in plastic bags to spend 3…
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Mary Linwood events open for bookings
What’s coming up for the Mary Linwood exhibition from September 2025 to February 2026. Events start with free Social Stitch sessions in the gallery, where there are tables and stools alongside the Mary Linwoods. These take place monthly on Monday afternoons, the first is 22nd September which I hope to attend. The first ticketed event…
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Claire-Louise Hardie / The Thrifty Stitcher: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 54
Today’s episode is more in the summer of stitch series, this time with a very different kind of maker. Claire-Louise Hardie is a costumier and sewing teacher, expert in making clothes and understanding how clothes work and how they make us feel. This is a really fun conversation exploring very different things than this podcast…
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Mary Linwood events
Save the dates for Mary Linwood related events in Leicester, September 2025 – January 2026. This is advance notice of in-person events related to Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery 13th September 2025 to 22nd February 2026. Entry to the exhibition is free. Some of the events are drop-in,…
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Jennifer Collier; Making Meaning Podcast Episode 53
Continuing with the summer of stitch theme, in this podcast episode I am talking to the brilliant maker Jennifer Collier, who makes amazing objects in paper using textile techniques. I’ve known Jennifer for years and we’ve worked together and supported each other plenty but still needed to twist her arm to do this podcast, for…
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Wendy Ward; Making Meaning Podcast Episode 52
This week’s podcast episode is with the amazing Wendy Ward – researcher, maker and campaigner around clothes, sustainability and emotional connection to the things we wear. Wendy is a PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University investigating product attachment, craft and broken-ness in fashion. Prior to her PhD she taught sewing to adults and wrote five…
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Making With Care
Maker Membership online exhibition exploring themes of care and creativity I’m so pleased to share this years Maker Membership group exhibition. Every six months I set a creative theme for the members to follow if they wish. We’ve just concluded Making With Care and some of the members have chosen to share their work. The…