The lovely Perri Lewis, The Guardian's crafty guru, got down to a very different kind of stitching this week as she learned to stitch surgically at London's Hunterian Museum in the run up to the All Stitched Up event this Friday.
What's fascinating is how Perri compares her experience of stitching through her craft to the art of stitching up skin. Perri practices blanket stitch on the surgical school's 'practice arm' and says it's more like sewing leather than sewing fabric.
She also looks at how beads are used and the types of thread. Not something you'd often think about when you look at your own stash of similar items. A very interesting read.
The Hunterian Museum's All Stitched Up event will feature the traditional crafts of knitting (with Stitch London), weaving and spinning, as well as giving people the chance to learn some surgical stitching themselves.
If the apocalypse comes it's good to know us crafters will be most of the way there for patching up people should it come to it. Excellent craft-meets-science work, Ms Lewis.
