“When my mum wrote a book called Loved Clothes Last, I did the illustrations for it – it’s about sustainability, upcycling and my mum’s work, and there’s some basic mending techniques in it. In order to learn how to do the drawings, I taught myself the techniques because I wouldn’t have been able to draw it without knowing how to do it. And then I became completely addicted. Like really obsessed. I started doing my friends’ and family’s clothes, mending holes, mending tears, patching, bits of embroidery here and there, and it just became something that I really loved doing. There’s something really tender about it.
