Patched thoughts
I’ve been musing on patches and patching, jotting down words and phrases and thinking about what they represent.
The Gathering Apron
A digital research diary: exploring textiles, nurturing seeds of ideas to see what grows, making mistakes valiantly and looking out for magical connections.
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Notes on dots
A single dot, on a contrasting ground, stands out. Does it speak of uniqueness? Of isolation?
"Always we begin again"
I came here today to write about something else but I found this unfinished post in my drafts and it encouraged me, so I decided to publish it instead, as it is, although it comes to a rather abrupt end!
(Not) too beautiful to use?
A work in progress
100 days of my bookshelf - week 1
In the first seven days of my 100 day project 2025, ‘100 days of my bookshelf’, I read part 1 of Katharine Briggs 'The Fairies in Tradition and Literature', 10 chapters about the variations and commonalities of the fairy people across Britain and Ireland.
100 days of my bookshelf
The 100 Day Project 2025
Musing about differences
Random thought fragments I’ve been jotting down about ‘differences’, which is the current prompt in the No Rules Textile Society. It seems very timely to think about the multi-faceted meanings of difference as the powers seek to erode and erase nuance and ambiguity in favour of simplistic binary divisions.
The meaning of making
Making is material. When I wonder about the value of creating more stuff in an already overcrowded world, I remind myself that the pace of the handmade opposes the excesses of mass production. Take time, make less, care more.
Blessing prayer to begin a creative work
Arising from an online retreat, Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist, with Christine Valters Paintner at abbeyofthearts.com. I offer it to be peopled with your own holy and beloved ones and your own kind of work.
Thoughts on wrapping
A few months ago I joined the No Rules Textile Society, seeking some external impetus for creativity after a difficult few years.