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  • Front cover of Islington Life

    Front cover of Islington Life

    I was so humbled to be told the photo from the photoshoot for the Threading Community article got onto the front cover of Islington Life! We celebrated with orange chocolate…

  • Black history Month Oct 2025

    Black history Month Oct 2025

    The call out went out to the creative team at ACL Islington for Black History month for October 2025 and I went along with a couple of my learners, Bobette…

  • Module 1 Flower

    Module 1 Flower

    I have invested in a course to improve my machine embroidery skills that I learnt over twenty years ago. Each month there is a new project to be working on…

  • Unpicking Embroidery!

    Unpicking Embroidery!

    It took me ten minutes to unpick the section shown in the photo, the reason being is I had run out of purple embroidery floss and I did not have…

  • Module 1 and 2 in FME

    Module 1 and 2 in FME

    I have signed up to be part of free motion embroidery with Vania Santos from Wardrobe School. It has been a while since I have been sewing machine embroidery and…

  • “The Girl Who Ate The Dragon”.

    “The Girl Who Ate The Dragon”.

    The girl who ate the dragon is the catwalk theme of Hector Maclean. I saw the body suit in Hector’s studio and collaborated with Hector in sending my learners to…