by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 29, 2022 | Creativity, Inspiration
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. working repetitively with your hands helps promote good mental health and an overall sense of...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 22, 2022 | Creativity, Design, Inspiration
After my post last week, ‘Design to Stitch’, I thought I’d share one of the simple ways I design – one that I found works especially well for me – it might for you too. Because that transition from concept to stitch is the hardest and...
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 | Apr 8, 2022 | Creativity, Inspiration
Creativity, for me, is about being curious and willing to make mistakes to grow – that then leads to inspiration. And sometimes it’s about changing things up a little and going back to the basics of making marks and working with colours that make your...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 1, 2022 | Books, Creativity, Inspiration
Being asked to be part of a new publication entitled ‘Finding Your Thread’, was a wonderful experience for me – but it was so very much more. ‘Finding Your Thread’ was curated by Anne Kempton, Gallerist of Australia’s only fibre art...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Mar 25, 2022 | Books, Creativity, Inspiration
Call me old-fashioned, but set me on a way forward that honours art, life, and beauty and I believe we’d do a lot to improve the human spirit. As a means of overcoming pressures, traumatic personal experiences or simply to fulfil that need to make, the road to...
