Hello! Welcome to Edith and Audrey, my name is Natalie and I’m a self taught textile artist and maker, originally from Yorkshire, now based in the North East. I have been designing and making textile art cards and selling handmade for over twenty years. I also write a personal blog, mostly about sewing which can be found here:
I opened the Edith & Audrey Etsy shop in 2020 but have been selling handmade online since 2004 and have been sewing for as long as I can remember. In my early teens I acquired a 1920s hand crank Singer sewing machine which I used to launch my first online shop on Ebay. Not long after that a family friend gave me a 1960s Bernina 730, which was a bit like hitting the sewing machine jackpot - I'm still using it today! I use a machine to create the bulk of my designs, but I'm also an advocate for slow stitching and many of my cards feature hand stitching or embroidery.
The name? Edith and Audrey are my grandmothers, who inspired me to live life on the thrifty side. The 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, although very poorly now, is still with us at ninety nine! Sadly Audrey passed away in 2017. My grandparents were a huge part of my early childhood and I think about them often. Every stitch I make I dedicate to their memory and 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.
