Collaboration sits at the heart of my practice. Through large-scale participatory textile projects, I work with communities, museums and organisations to explore stories of place, identity, heritage and belonging.
Each project invites participants to contribute their voices through slow stitching, transforming personal reflections and shared histories into ambitious collaborative artworks. From community quilts and embroidered banners to narrative textiles and installations, these works celebrate collective creativity while creating space for conversation, learning and connection.
Participants often bring their own memories, research, cultural traditions and experiences into the making process. The resulting textiles become powerful shared documents — celebrating communities, preserving stories and strengthening connections between people and place.
Below you’ll find a selection of past projects created in collaboration with communities, museums and cultural organisations across the UK.
Stitching Ashbourne
Live Project: A Celebration of Place, People & Stories
Threads of Change
November 2025: A bespoke workshop for Derby Museums, where slow stitching invited reflection on climate change and personal action. Participants shaped beautiful pledge flags, weaving concern into creativity, connection, and collective hope.
Bunting for Peace
August 2025: A collaborative project at Erewash Museum, inviting visitors to stitch wartime resilience into vibrant red, white, and blue bunting. Through hands-on workshops, the community transformed reclaimed fabrics into a celebration of peace, memory, and shared creativity.
The 80 Candles Quilt
September 2024 – February 2025: A collaboratively created memorial quilt, representing the stories of 80 individuals affected by the Nazi regime.
Lantern Stories
May – June 2024: A workshop series for Inspirate Arts exploring 40 years of Diwali celebrations in Leicester. Through slow-stitched ‘Story Lanterns’, members of Leicester’s diaspora community shared memories, reflections, and personal stories of how the festival and the city have grown and changed over time
Quilt of Connection
November 2023 – May 2024: A collaborative project with Derby Museums, inviting the people of Derby and Derbyshire to explore their stories and how they wish to be celebrated.
Cherished Hearts
October 2023: A creative workshop for the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition, where Leicester’s diaspora community explored personal and shared stories of migration. Through slow-stitched, tactile hearts, participants found a safe space to reflect, connect, and nurture both memory and belonging.
The Brailsford Bayeux
January – May 2023: A community stitch project celebrating HRH Charles III’s coronation and the rich cultural heritage of Brailsford and Ednaston. Over 280 residents wove a shared story of pride, connection, and belonging across generations.
Handmade Christmas
December 2021: A bespoke workshop for Upbeat Communities, bringing refugee women together through stitching to share skills, celebrate cultural traditions and connect creatively.
Reclaim the Night
June 2021: A collaborative stitching project bringing women from across Derbyshire together to create a banner for the 2021 Reclaim the Night march in Derby city centre. Through shared stitch sessions in parks, cafés and homes, participants found space for conversation, solidarity and collective voice.
Veiled Voices
2020: An inclusive community embroidery project bringing women from across the UK together to explore perceptions of hijab in Britain. Through shared stitching and conversation, over 100 participants created a powerful textile record of reflection, learning, friendship, and understanding.
Every Stitch A Story 