I had been making curtains just before going into labour and have included strips of the fabric I used, the tactile process of layering fabric reflected for me the layers of wildly varying emotion that I felt during an overdue pregnancy and a long labour. Keeping inside the embroidery ring felt too neat and too controlled- my labour was neither of these things so the work spills out of the frame. Hopefully (and for me at least) there's something a little bit beautiful in there too, amongst the wonky stitches and frayed fabric.
