VOLUNTEERS In the years since fine Cell work was first established, our community has grown to include more than 100 volunteers involved in directly delivering our programmes. There are multiple ways for volunteers to get...

Originally written for Stitch Up - our bi-annual newsletter for our prison stitchers Have you ever wondered how designers and artists find the perfect colour combination? They use colour theory. Colour theory is a practical combination...

At Fine Cell Work, we use only the best quality yarns and cloth in our production. Linen cloth is used in some of our best selling items such as our lavender bags, our Shakespeare range and of course, our...

Originally written for Stitch Up - our bi-annual newsletter for our prison stitchers - below is a brief background to the history of wool. The hairy coats of many wild animals provided our ancestors with...

At Fine Cell Work, we are incredibly fortunate to have the most formidable team of volunteers supporting our work. Without them, we would not be able to support our service users in such a meaningful way. Our...

RAINBOW DESIGN BY BRIDIE HALL "When I first met Louisa, the Fine Cell Work volunteer, I told her that it had been a very long time since I’d put needle and thread to anything, but she...

Learn how to hand-embroider by joining Fine Cell Work's new Virtual Stitch Club. The fifth stitch we're teaching is Herringbone Stitch, simple but effective with lots of potential for fun embellishment with contrasting thread colours....

Learn how to hand-embroider by joining Fine Cell Work's new Virtual Stitch Club. The fourth stitch we're teaching is Back Stitch, great for outlines and we've got some fun embellishment ideas, too.

Fine Cell Work's wonderful Production and Design Supervisor, Annasofie, has created an embroidery design especially for our #virtualstitchclub on Instagram to help all of us stitch our way through this together. Download the PDF template and...