Blog
Hello and welcome to my Blog especially for textile artists, combining inspiration, personal growth, creativity and design. All the good things!
Begin Where?…
Setting goals, knowing what I’m aiming for, being professional, prioritizing, following a brief, designing a cohesive body of work, hanging work, researching and writing, confidence to go my own way – these are the sort of things I’ve learned.
So, What’s Your Plan?
A plan I hear you ask? Yes, a plan! A way of moving forward so I know exactly where I'm going. I always have a plan. I'm always heading somewhere. I couldn't imagine working any other way. Right here, right now, what's my plan to continue moving in a forward...
The Business Behind the Business – Work Flow Chart
From collage to photography to editing to social media and finally filing – yes filing!
Just what do I have to go through to achieve a simple collage work which I can then use for inspiration, marketing, promotion, and pure enjoyment?
Look Back to Move Forward!
All too often it's very easy to become entranced with the new. But for me, looking back through old ideas and design work is just as mesmerizing and often uncovers forgotten gems. Looking through old or discarded design work with fresh eyes can be a revelation. But...
Textile Artist Series: Ailish Henderson
This Textile Art Series focusses on Textile and Fibre Artists from around the world, who use stitch in their artistic practice. I’ll delve into their processes, inspiration, and materials to understand what makes each of us unique in our endeavor to create.
Quilt Shows/Group Shows/Guild Exhibitions
What about the wonderful opportunities Quilt Shows, Group Shows or Guild Exhibitions offer?
How to Expand/Extend Design.
A design isn’t necessarily finished just because you’ve finished stitching it out. Go back and look at it with a view to seeing how much more it may have to offer?
Make a Vision Board for Textile Art Inspiration
Vision Boards are the visual embryo of a concept I need to move forward to design or to move a design forward!
Vision Boards – Storytelling for Textile Artists!
Vision Boards are a playground for ideas to coalesce and develop – all on one page on one concept.
The Stitch Aesthetic! Stitch and Design with Passion.
So why the Stitch Aesthetic and what’s it all about? I’ll be looking at Stitch holistically and sharing that here.
Textile Art: From Image to Stitch – One Process I Use for Inspiration.
Some artists make the leap from inspiration to stitch look easy. It’s not. Here’s one process I use.
Inspiration From Simple Images
Do you want to re-ignite and re-engage your passion to stitch, design and create? Well, inspiration may be closer than you think.
Let’s do a Photoshoot: My tips for styling
Do you love beautiful images? Do you need them to showcase your work on social media or just for inspiration?
A Checklist for Photographing Your Own Textile Art
Are you like me and just want to take your own shots of the textile art you make? Then this may be just for you.
Using your machine?
Do you want to dig deeper into what you and your machine can do? Delve into what you can achieve here.