# 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. Page: Feed: --- ## [Patched thoughts](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/patched-thoughts) _2026-06-08 · Fiona Dix_ I’ve been musing on patches and patching, jotting down words and phrases and thinking about what they represent. ## [Notes on dots](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/notes-on-dots) _2026-04-01 · Fiona Dix_ A single dot, on a contrasting ground, stands out. Does it speak of uniqueness? Of isolation? ## ["Always we begin again"](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/always-we-begin-again) _2026-03-29 · Fiona Dix_ 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?](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/not-too-beautiful-to-use) _2025-07-13 · Fiona Dix_ A work in progress ## [100 days of my bookshelf - week 1](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/100-days-of-my-bookshelf-week-1) _2025-03-02 · Fiona Dix_ 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](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/100-days-of-my-bookshelf) _2025-02-23 · Fiona Dix_ The 100 Day Project 2025 ## [Musing about differences](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/musing-about-differences) _2025-02-16 · Fiona Dix_ 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](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-making) _2024-12-08 · Fiona Dix_ 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](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/blessing-prayer-to-begin-a-creative) _2024-11-26 · Fiona Dix_ 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. ## [Zuverlässiges Hosting, Domains, Server (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zQlFSl1VzMij) _2024-11-26 · **Sponsored**_ Zuverlässige Infrastruktur, niedrige Preise und skalierbare Server für deinen Webauftritt. ## [Thoughts on wrapping](https://fionadix.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-wrapping) _2024-11-20 · Fiona Dix_ A few months ago I joined the No Rules Textile Society, seeking some external impetus for creativity after a difficult few years.