Stitch Club

Stitch Club is a collaborative arts group, exploring sustainable making, repairing, skill sharing and cultural exchange. The group meet every second Monday of the month in Crosby Library, working together as a community sometimes with guest artists and makers. Inspired by thrift, we transform discarded fabrics into meaningful pieces that are enriched and their lives extended. We share memories of learning from previous generations, stories from school sewing classes, and learning techniques from different cultures to reinvent and repurpose items to increase their sustainability.  

Stitch Club began 2018 through a project by illustrator Reena Makwana to make a shared textile work with participants in Bootle. People enjoyed meeting to sew together so much that it continued as a volunteer-led group, supported by Emily Critchley, until the 2020 pandemic. We revived the project in 2022 in Crosby, inviting artist Emma Summerscales to bring her skills, thinking and creative practice in sustainable fashion and textiles into the group's  activities.  

Collaboration has been central to the journey of the programme and we've worked with artists including Sandra Suubi for Liverpool Biennial and Ibukun Baldwin for the British Textile Biennial. Conversations go beyond the group, linking our acts of craft to a broader artistic and social dialogue.

Thankyou to Zero Waste Liverpool for their kind support for our most recent programme: Stitch Remix.