This Sunday my studio will be open to browse between 10am-3pm as it is the Hylands Open Estate Day. My studio is upstairs in a beautiful stables building. With lots of light from all the windows and the cosy calm feel I often have remarks of how beautiful it must be to work here and how fortunate I am (and I totally agree!!).

I began sewing with oilcloth many years ago in a small spare bedroom in my house, which then progressed when we moved to a workshop attached to the house and then just over two years ago moving to this beautiful studio, with other likeminded artists in the beautiful settings of Hylands Estate.

When you pop by the open day this Sunday, you may notice this cute apron standing proudly in the downstairs entrance to the studios. The apron was how Cosima's began - my first venture into sewing with oilcloth for my tiny daughter who wanted a cooking apron........