by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 15, 2022 | Design, Inspiration
In my library, I believe there are at least three books alluding to being able to show how to design to stitch – not one of them has actually been helpful to me, but perhaps that’s just me! However, while stitching yesterday, I realized I’ve found...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 18, 2022 | Creativity, Design
Teaching design is not easy. Teachers don’t know what you know and what you don’t know; they don’t know your strengths or weaknesses – nor your passions, beliefs, or feelings. And they’re the things that help inform and impact you as an...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Oct 1, 2021 | Creativity, Design
Recently, I picked up a needle and thread to embroider. Yes, hand embroidery – something I haven’t worked at in years. Weeks down the track, I can honestly say that I’ve worked a stint of hand stitch into my daily routine. Why? Because I can feel...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jul 23, 2021 | Design, Inspiration
Do you sample? It’s not something I do often, I must admit, but when it comes to having to design and make something different, something requiring careful thought either in construction or technique, then I sample, sample, sample. And it’s worth it. One...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jun 25, 2021 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
It’s one thing to have an idea or concept – it’s another kettle of fish entirely, to make that up into a successful design for textile and fibre art. So where do I start? Well, funnily enough, at the end – and by that I mean the finished size...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | May 7, 2021 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
This design had been in the back of my mind for a long time. Inspired by the colours and textures of our beautiful Australian flowering gums and those cheeky, raucous, magnificently coloured Lorikeets – it seemed as though this work came together of its own...
