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    SEWING AND STANDING OUT

    May 12, 2022 5 minutes
    Written by Nicole Vassell

    Mike Aspinall was just a teenager when he got his first sewing machine. A birthday gift from his parents, the then-school student was thrilled to finally have the chance to take his crafting to the next level. For him, making things was simply second nature.

    “My earliest childhood memories are of being creative,” he explains from his home in Liverpool, over Zoom. “They’re of spending hours in my childhood bedroom cutting up paper, making scrapbooks, making greeting cards. I did a lot of drawing as well, sketching and doodling. That childlike love of craft, making things, being a bit messy, has just grown as I’ve grown up.”

    Though his mother was fearful the sewing machine would be something used twice and then abandoned after teen-Mike found another hobby more interesting, her worries

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