Hi, I’m Sabrena. I live with my partner and our two little ones, Nova and Dean.
I’ve always been creative, and with two little ones in the house there’s always something to fix on their clothes. Something’s a bit too big, or a hem comes loose. Then I sit down with a needle and thread, and before I know it I’m happily busy for a while. That’s how I came to enjoy sewing more and more.
I made my first letter garland as a new baby gift for a friend. I’d seen garlands like that before, but never in a print I really liked, and never finished as neatly as I like things to be. So I started trying it myself. The pacifier cords came after that.
What I love most is the making itself. Not thinking about anything else for a while, stitch by stitch. I’m quite precise: if an edge isn’t straight, I unpick it and start again. And when there’s a happy face afterwards, or a sweet message, that makes me happy too.
I sew everything by hand, at home in Hoofddorp.