While graduating from Art School in 2015, I started up a little etsy business, making and selling embroidered, feminist patches from a cupboard in my flat (quite literally). It picked up relatively unexpectedly, and within months it had turned into my full time job. I loved my time as a self employed creative, but with this came a lot of loneliness, isolation and the early research into the problematic world of fast fashion that became the building blocks of Wild & Kind CIC. Looking to build something that was bigger than myself, over time I have slowly dedicated more of my energy to Wild & Kind, and less to poor little halfstitch, which now finds itself in permanent ‘vacation mode’. Maybe one day I will get back to embroidering obnoxious, sweary riot grrrl patches, but for the mean time I have a much more important set of goals ahead!