Amanda Jane Textiles

Michala Gyetvai, textile artist

I first came across Michala’s work at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Edinburgh in 2016, where she had an exhibition entitled ‘Enchanted Landscapes’. Michala Gyetvai, photo by Amanda Jane Ogden Michala’s work is unusual and most striking. She works from pastel sketches of the landscape and then re-works them in fibres and threads ontoContinueContinue reading “Michala Gyetvai, textile artist”

Lydia Higginson, dressmaker, in London

I have written about Lydia before on this blog (you can see links to the earlier posts listed at the end of this one). Photo credit: mademywardrobe on Instagram Lydia spent two years living in Bristol and working in a studio in the Textiles Quarter alongside other makers. She began with a ‘year of making’ContinueContinue reading “Lydia Higginson, dressmaker, in London”