These cushions began in a very traditional way: each design was hand cross-stitched before being built into a finished soft furnishing. The process is slow, familiar, and rooted in domestic craft — the kind of thing you might expect to find in a charity shop or at your granny’s house.
And then you read the text.
I wanted to explore the contrast between kink and the everyday. Cushions are harmless, comforting objects that live openly in our homes, while kink is often treated as something private or hidden. By combining overtly adult messages with nostalgic materials, bright trims, and vintage styling, these pieces sit deliberately in that uncomfortable, playful middle ground.
They’re tongue-in-cheek, but intentional. The humour invites you in; the content asks why certain desires feel transgressive when placed in a domestic context. Using cross-stitch — a medium associated with patience, care, and tradition — felt like the perfect way to soften, subvert, and reclaim that space.
Soft, familiar objects with unapologetically adult messages — because maybe kink doesn’t have to stay hidden behind closed doors.
