my neighbour ruth is a reaction to industrial capitalism, to fast fashion, to years spent uncomfortable in my body and in my clothes
it's a slow-clothing project, a collection of handmade garments. made so slowly and so intimately you know their seams like your neighbourhood :)
(ruth's recipe for reciprocity)
growing up, my neighbour ruth would have me feed her cats and put out her garbage bins while she was out of town. she’d have me over for dinner in return when she was back, or bake cookies to eat together on the porch. she had the nicest garden on the street. flowers of every colour. grapevines to make jelly and gift away in abundance. my neighbour ruth was my first teacher of reciprocity in community.
this is less about fashion, and more about the practice of sewing, and of sewing slowly. it's about localization, keeping skills alive, and opening the curtain between producer and consumer.
the climate crisis insists a rethinking of our relationship to the earth, it has us calling for a new awareness of how our clothes are made, where they're made, and what they're made from.
this is political, my sewing machine a manifestation between society and nature :)