My mother was born in 1921 in a small village in the Potteries and so her 20s were inevitably shaped by the impact of World War 2.  Having left school aged 14, she began work as an office clerk and met my father in a cycling club in 1936.  Four years later the war started and they quickly got married before my father left to join the army. For a short time, my mother became a land girl and then, tiring of farm work, she went to London.  Here, she worked in the drafting department of an...

My series of quilts for Femina draws on my family history. They interrogate the lives of my grandmother, my mother and my own by asking what was life like for three generations of 20 year old women? Our family history is, sadly, rather sketchy, so I have been trying to piece it together. Stitching these stories is one way to do it. FEMINA 1 20 in the 1920s My grandmother was born in 1901 and so, her 20s were played out in the 1920s, a time of great change for women in the UK following the...

This is the third piece in my series for Conversing with the Earth.  When hung together there is an environmental message to be read:...