Florence Knapp is one of those inspiring creative women who make it all look easy. Juggling raising two teenage children, dressmaking, English paper piecing, pattern design, blogging, writing and running a business with her husband, she certainly has her hands full, but pulls it all off with aplomb. With the recent publication of her first book, Flossie Teacakes’ Guide to English Paper Piecing, things look set to get even busier for this motivated stitcher.
“I have always loved making things,” she explains, “and although my own mother wasn’t a sewer, she encouraged a love of colour, texture and pattern – always drawing my attention to those things as a child. We travelled as a family a lot when I was younger, and at one of the primary schools I attended,…
