I didn’t like high school very much. I was more of a hands-on learner, and I really needed to visualise things in order to understand them. My dad used to screen print as a teenager, he saw Bobbin and Ink on Parramatta Road and just suggested I reach out to them. I ended up doing work experience there for a week in year 10. The owner, Laura Walsh, is the primary reason I work in this industry. Without her direction and access to her facilities, I wouldn’t know how to sew or screen print at all. I eventually ended up working at Bobbin and Ink. I would stay back late to use the facilities and practice sewing and screenprinting. I spent years making mistakes, I spent days with nothing to show for all these hours of hard work, and then one day I slowly started to get things right. It just took a really fucking long time to pass that boundary. I also did a Certificate III in Applied Fashion Design and Technology at TAFE which is a really important course if you want to become a good seamstress and pattern maker.