Loose Ends, a not-for-profit US-based project, pairs skilled volunteers, known as ‘finishers’, with people who have found unfinished knitting or crochet projects left incomplete by their loved ones when they died. Founded by Jennifer Simonic and Masey Kaplan, the project began in September 2022 when the duo supported a friend who had recently lost her… Continue reading The strangers stepping up to finish craft projects that loved ones leave behind
Author: Nicola Slawson
The woman who grew her own pair of jeans
Justine Aldersey-Williams, a textile artist and teacher at The Wild Dyery in Wirral, UK, set herself the challenging task of growing a pair of jeans from scratch. She was driven by her concern for the environmental impact of the fashion industry, which sells 70 million pairs of jeans in the UK every year. Aldersey-Williams’ experiment… Continue reading The woman who grew her own pair of jeans