Stitching is storytelling

Mothers are the women who birth us, but also the women who raise us, who compel us to stand up, who teach us that kindness and strength are not mutually exclusive; our sisters and friends, the women who guide us, who lend us their dresses and coats, and teach us to sew our histories, to embrace imperfection in messy cross-stitch. Stitching, much like motherhood, is storytelling.

 

Stitching Motherhood, Laura Maw