Blog
Hello and welcome to my Blog especially for textile artists, combining inspiration, personal growth, creativity and design. All the good things!
Measurement
Value can be found in all the things that are difficult, if not impossible to measure – things like pleasure, passion, progress, habits, commitment, determination, problem-solving, responding to failure – you get the idea.
The Artist’s Equation: Questions & Answers
We need to make discoveries for ourselves, we need to innovate to suit our own unique tastes, and most importantly, to show our individual and distinctive influences too.
Let’s Talk About It
Now, it’s our turn to shape our own world of making – of creativity, design, and technique using textiles and a needle and thread and that means interacting as frequently as we can with people who do, and people who want to do.
Exploring Edges
Courage and enthusiasm in equal parts – it’s contagious.
Colouring Thread
All in all, this was huge fun to do – and the fact that the thread isn’t completely coloured just adds more interest and variety for me, so it’s definitely something I’ll be using again and again.
Improv
What I discovered was a renewed and refreshed interest in hand embroidery, with no boundaries, no expectations, and no pressure.
The Right Recipe
Finally, I have the right recipe. Someone else can deal with all the hype, I just want to enjoy the moment.
Take Control
Red flags appearing from any of the points above indicate prudence – to ensure we protect what we’ve worked so hard for and to ally ourselves with others who feel the same way.
The Art of Mentoring
The role of a good Mentor is to gently guide the Mentee to ask questions that will lead them to uncover solutions for themselves.
The Context of Now
We have choices here – we can either bury our heads in the sand and give up; we can try to ignore it – or we go about acquiring the expertise to learn and do things ourselves.
12 Top Tips for Stitching
Make your stitching experience more efficient, and far more enjoyable.
12 Reasons to Stitch Everyday
Should we be more proactive about promoting a love of needlework, embroidery, and the textile arts? You bet we should, so here are my 12 reasons to stitch every day.
Go Design
Be guided by simple shapes and textures you know can be recreated in stitch somehow – this has to be achievable.
Design to Stitch
Everything we do should be linked to our strengths – the things we know we do well, whether we’re relaxed or under duress with a deadline to meet.
Unique Inspiration
Occasionally I dip into the ocean of online courses and workshops – with great enjoyment I might add – and I’m absolutely thrilled with my choices.