Hi! My name is Christine Leech and I am the creative mind behind Sewyeah and The Sewyeah Social Club. I have been crafting all my life and love sharing my knowledge and skills with others. I am based in South London and have a studio at the bottom of my garden where I run workshops and spend my time working on collaborations, commissions and other craft delights. 

 

I have sold over 250,000 craft books worldwide. They include the best selling Everything Alice and Pompomania (Quadrille/Hardie Grant) and cover a variety of subjects from pompoms, papercraft and printmaking to embroidery, home sewing and crafts for children. My most recent books were part of a series on Zero Waste Crafting published by David & Charles. 

 

In 2016 I won Best Stocking on Channel 4’s Kirsties Handmade Christmas and was invited back to the show in 2021 to judge the best Christmas tree and Christmas gift episodes. In 2019 I was one of the craft experts on Channel 4’s Kirsties Celebrity Craft Masters, sharing my skills with a selection of celebrities (of varying abilities!!) I have also been a guest on Radio 4’s Womens Hour talking about the positive health benefits of making pompoms. 

 

I love teaching people about craft and it's ability to improve ones mental health. I have run both bespoke (3 attendees) and largescale (300 attendees) workshops at various festivals and PR events including Port Elliot, Festival No. 6, The Handmade Festival and Selfridges.

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I love to work on both a large and small scale. I have covered a window of Heals furniture store in small pieces of confetti, each piece, hand cut and fixed to the walls, window, furniture and floor.  I've organised a community project to create  giant chandeliers from plastic bottles and upcycled waste for the Bath Christmas Market and I've also organised a worldwide collaborative embroidery make-a-long entitled The Hometown Patch project.