Stitch and Make Studio

When small, Abi Jackson made shoes from wallpaper sample books and lashed her brothers’ wooden building blocks onto her feet with string believing herself to be a geisha. In her bedroom, she stitched gnomes on hankies and cut off the frills from her maxi dress to make clothes for Pippa the pocket-sized doll. In the kitchen, her mum sat her on the draining board, put sellotape across her fringe and cut under it.

Abigail Jackson became one of a tiny handful of Daventry punks, who shuffled around town in bondage trousers from Seditionaries and handmade clothes coloured in with biro pens, held together with hundreds of safety pins. In her bedroom, she made homemade Sid Vicious badges with pages from the NME and sticky back plastic. Dreamt of being in The Slits and planned never to have a proper job.

Abi went to Northampton Art College in the 80’s to study fashion design and Illustration. It's this foundation of designing and pattern cutting that has coloured her judgment ever since.  From opening a clothes shop in Coventry at the age of 19 to opening the studio in her 50’s, it's only ever been about creating and making. She designs, sews and makes from her studio as well as collaborating on community or school projects, workshops and working with other creatives in Burns Street Studios.

Find out more:
abijackson.com

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