I gained a degree as a painter from The University of Northumbria in 1995, and I was a practicing artist for some years after, but then life got in the way of my artistic ambitions. As a single parent raising two girls, my creativity was put on the back burner. Not an uncommon story. Once my children were older, I had more headspace to start creating again and decided to return to one of my first loves, sewing.
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