by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 26, 2021 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
So how did I transfer this larger-than-life, fairly intricate design? By tracing every line, mark, dot and pattern on my drawing. I went over the drawing before tracing to make sure all the lines made sense and were complete – in other words, that they’re...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 18, 2021 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
You know all those age-old axioms about absorbing experiences and embracing ‘just doing,’ well, that’s what this is really about. It sounds so simple, but sometimes just doing, just starting can also equate to just producing. It’s a story of...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 12, 2021 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
Design, for me usually means blank white paper, pencil and rubber – end of story. But I’ve been working in a long – over 2 metre, narrow – around 40cm, format recently, and that’s large by any embroiderer’s standards. So I decided...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 15, 2021 | Creativity, Design
You know that old saying ‘you can’t see for looking.’ Well, sometimes all it takes is a fresh set of eyes. I work best alone so I can clarify the processes I know work for me – and that means just one set of eyes. Fine, great. But sometimes,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Dec 11, 2020 | Creativity, Personal Growth
The Inuit word Qarrtsiluni means to sit expectantly together in darkness, waiting for something to happen or ‘burst forth’. It encapsulates that strange, quiet period before a momentous event. It’s their way of honouring the whale, using this ritual...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Nov 27, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration
Remember those cartoon-like, stick-figure images we probably all made as children, drawn on slips of paper and flipped to create our very own mini motion picture? Creating textile and fibre art is much the same, and just like those stick-figure images, it...
