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Ouissi
My sewing journey began further back than my memory permits me to remember. My Aunt is a seamstress, wedding dress designer and corsetier so I cannot remember a time when she didn’t have a room full of sewing machines, pins, hand cut patterns and bags and bags of beautiful fabrics. As children we were allowed to search through the bags containing scraps for a piece we wanted as a cloak or other dress up item. In fact some things never change…I still hunt through them!!
Christmas Pudding
She taught us all to sew, the basic stitches and pattern cutting and using the sewing machines. And in me at least she instilled a love of fabric and drape and particularly embellishment. I have, as a teenager and an adult, spent hours hand beading trains and bodices in front of their open fire and it lead to a love of embroidery, beading and cross stitch. I love the intricacy and the fact I lose myself and time working on a tiny area. During my school exams and degree periods I used sewing to escape the stress, when my beloved books just reminded me too vividly of the piles of relevant tomes I still had to read and remember.
So when I found myself housebound and violently ill with hyperemesis during a much longed for pregnancy I bought some fabric and started sewing for my baby…laundry bags and quilts, cubes and toys. After my son was born, I wanted to try something different. Once he started sleeping through the night I could find time for myself and explore my sewing further.
Dolly Mixtures
I had always love the feel of felt and the bright rainbow of colours it comes in so I bought a few pieces and attempted to make my favourite biscuit, a Jammie Dodger. I had noticed that no-one did felt sculptures of British classic foods…American foods, Japanese foods even the Chinese foods we eat with my Hong Kong in-laws, but not British. I made a few and loved both the process and the stitching…plus people would comment on them. So I opened an Etsy shop and the rollercoaster started!
I love what I do…I love food, cooking and sewing so the combination is perfect for me. A month or so I opened a Folksy shop for my British buyers and both are going well.
I still have the Jammie Dodger….It was the start of it all!
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Jan 3, 2009 
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art, bird, bluedrops, bobishi, clutch, creature, etsy, feather, Jewellery, jewelry, painting, realisation creation, red ruby rose, Resin, sea, suberb sundays, table lamp, wire
