Hello! Welcome to Edith and Audrey, my name is Natalie and I’m a self taught textile and mixed media artist and maker, originally from Yorkshire, now based in the North East. I've been designing and making textile art cards and selling handmade for over twenty years.
I started Edith & Audrey in 2020 but have been selling handmade online since 2004 and sewing for as long as I can remember. In my teens I started experimenting on an old hand crank Singer which I still use today in addition to a vintage Bernina and a couple of modern machines. I'm also an advocate for slow stitching so some of my work features hand stitching or embroidery.
The name? Edith and Audrey were my grandmothers and my inspiration for living life on the thrifty side. Their make do and mend approach often influences my work as I love to salvage and reuse fabrics that once had a life as something else, perhaps an old dress or a vintage curtain. Edith and Audrey were both a huge part of my early childhood and I think about them often. Every stitch I make I dedicate to their memory, the memory of my grandfather's Jim and David and also my great grandparents, five of whom I was blessed to know.
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Edith & Audrey supports The Naked Card campaign which encourages card sellers to ditch plastic cello bags and the Just A Card Campaign which promotes shopping from artists and small businesses.
