Rooted Yarn Gathered is a slow, land-based textile practice grounded in relationships, processes, and collective making.

My work centres on hand-spinning, weaving, and fibre preparation, using predominantly local wool and natural materials. I am interested in the full journey of fibre — from raw fleece through cleaning, spinning, and weaving — and in how time, repetition, and embodied skill shape both material and maker.

Alongside my own studio practice, I design and facilitate adult workshops that invite participants into these processes in a sustained and accessible way. These workshops vary in format and length, and may take place over a single day, multiple sessions, or as part of festivals and community gatherings.

One strand of this is Farm to Fibre: longer-form, process-led sessions that guide participants through the stages of working with wool, from raw fleece to finished cloth. These workshops emphasise learning through doing, shared attention, and an understanding of fibre as a living material connected to land, animals, and place.

Waulking the Year is a seasonal, collaborative workshop that brings together animal fibre, plant knowledge, and song, with a historical nod to the power of women’s collective labour.

Structured as a retreat-like space, the workshop is both grounding and informative, inviting participants into shared textile processes that are rhythmic, physical, and relational. Working with fibre collectively allows for embodied learning, mutual support, and the experience of making as a shared act rather than an individual pursuit.

In a contemporary context, these practices offer opportunities for connection, collective care, and gentle resistance to extractive and accelerated ways of working.

My background in early-years education and community facilitation informs an approach that is attentive, inclusive, and relational. Knowledge is shared through presence and participation rather than instruction alone, and outcomes are allowed to remain open-ended.

Across all strands, the work resists speed and productivity as primary measures of value. Instead, it centres slowness, rootedness, and the gathering together of fibre, people, and time.