by Cathy Jack Coupland | Mar 1, 2024 | Inspiration
Yes, trying something new is good. It doesn’t mean you’re changing your style of work. It doesn’t mean you’re copying someone else’s work. It means you’re adding new ideas to your repertoire and fleshing out your artistic aesthetic....
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 23, 2024 | Inspiration
Every day we have choices ahead of us. Every day we can do a little better than yesterday. By taking small steps, every day we can set ourselves up to be winners. Do you want to stitch every day, but find it difficult to get yourself started? Why not organise your...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 16, 2024 | Inspiration
Sedentary: inactive, sitting, stationary. Well, that’s what happens when we stitch. Now I’m not advising what form of movement one takes to help combat these times of stillness, but I am suggesting some antidote to those sometimes long times of inactivity....
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 2, 2024 | Inspiration
Slow stitching? Sometimes it can be very slow indeed. What to do to keep the time not only entertaining but even educational? Well, I listen to audiobooks – constantly. And Podcasts work just as well. I’ve worked out a system of using wireless earbuds,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 26, 2024 | Creativity, Inspiration
I’m beginning to understand myself as an embroiderer. I’ve written about how I design for hand embroidery, but there’s another element to what I do that seems to make a lot of sense to me. I call it layering. The idea or concept is the beginning...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 20, 2024 | Creativity, Inspiration
I’ve just recorded an episode podcast for my Stitch Safari on ‘Colour in Embroidery’. As this topic is so important, I thought I’d write about it here too. What amazes me is that with all the whizz-bang theory, tools and technology, people are...
