“We’re focusing on motivating, inspiring and uplifting kids, and sewing is merely the tool with which we’re doing that. We also want to provide kids with strong male role models, and specifically powerful Black role models.”
Like so many of us, Melburnian Simon Turner found he was at home a lot more than usual during 2020 and decided to use the extra time for a creative pursuit. Having been gifted a sewing machine for his fifty-second birthday – he found his favourite shirts were too expensive so wanted to make his own – Simon enrolled in a beginners sewing course at the start of 2020. Halfway through, the course was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but by that stage Simon was too excited about sewing to simply give up.
“I bought patterns online from fabric stores, deconstructed some old clothes and traced simple garments onto newspaper and, at one stage, Uber Eats bags!” says Simon, who shares the shirts, baby outfits and dresses he makes for his wife and friends on Instagram at @madebysilverfox. “Being in lockdown
