Exploring the ideas of growing up in a town shaped by masculinity and its tradition behind industry, I based my FMP, ‘This little heart of MINE’, around understanding and reclaiming Doncaster’s mining history and the masculinity that surrounds its culture. I utilised the dungaree buckle and through various sampling on both dubied and domestic knitwear machines, I implemented them into my knit, mixing both finer and thicker yarn types. By combining these yarn types with hard wear I was able to highlight the divide between the men I grew up around and looked up to, and the dilemma of not feeling ‘man enough’.