“It’s such a delight to be supported in being both – mothering and making, wanting to make very personal work for an intimate audience of me, and craving company, sharing, collaborating. I’m grateful to be free of having to choose between aspects of myself that can seem like contradictions or conflicts but are really just part of the everyday diversity of being human. Grateful for the challenges too. So far lemons keep turning to lemonade, problems alchemically change into something interesting and new because I’m doing this in an environment of support. Sharing the first mock-up of my book with other mums has been so helpful. Yesterday I met a grandmother who was sewing in the sandpit and the conversation this provoked made me feel that I’m on the right track with my approach of taking making out and about!”