‘If I don’t do some couching I will burst’

‘If I Don’t Do Some Couching Will Burst’ was the explanation gave to Dr. Amy Twigger-Holroyd explain my need make in order feel more balanced due work commitments generally, and during Covid-19 pandemic particular, why drew on couching as a stitch achieve this. It not until writing this essay about ‘The Piece’ stitched 2021 stop me from ‘bursting’, that realised centrality of expanded meanings self-care.‘The links claims for psychological space, physical making camaraderie with like-minded makers quest wholeness, all taking place within home, space Louise Bourgeois refers being ‘‘a metaphor structure our existence’ (Lorz 2015).