In 2004 as Emma, her husband and their three little girls drove up to the the derelict Georgian farmhouse with it's 310 acres, it seemed an impossible dream come true, that they could now call this place home. As first generation farmers it was with the heady enthusiasm that comes with the naivety of the hill ahead to climb, that allowed them to we start putting the farm and its house back together, piece by piece. Emma never thought she’d be running a business which encompasses my passion for sustainable  British farming with the textile addiction she have had ever since she was a little girl. A saying Emma try and live by is, “Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, but farm your land as if you were to live forever”.
After what seems an eternity  Sticka, The Tithe Collection has finally come to fruition, what started out as a small home produced magazine has finally grown up.
It was our friend and top designer Marie Wallin who first said 'you need your own collection' as we chatted on the stand at Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018. Followed by a long snowy journey home where Neil, and Mel my long time friend, insisted that it was a great idea and that I should design the patterns.