Australian Homespun

Selvedge DESIGNER EDGE

Who needs therapists when you can take to stitching instead? That is, if you try the Lisa Mattock approach. Her explanation for her particular style of layer-upon-layer-upon-layer of patches, stitches and scrappy bits goes like this:

“Slow stitching, I call it. And it centres around ‘make do and mend’ and the ‘waste not, want not’ ethos

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