Many of you who follow me on social media, or know me personally, will know that I am a huge owl fan, I go out and listen to them calling on Cannock Chase whenever possible. I am also a fan of creating my own knitting patterns and designs, so I merged the two passions together to create a hat and…
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At the start of this year (2021) I joined the stitch-a-long ’52 tags hannemade’ by Anne Brooke Textile artist on youtube/Instagram. The plan is to stitch a tag a week for 52 weeks and attach them to a hoop display. The back of the tag has the date, the stitch information and a meaning behind that weeks’ prompt. I have…
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This week has been more of a reflective, writing one, I haven’t painted. I have spent some time rummaging through my most recent small studies, little paintings, acrylic on paper. The plan was to look for a sense of what direction to take my art, to tease out the resistance, the fear of putting paint to canvas, when I came…
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I recently came across the writing prompt ‘small stones‘ via a podcast by Amy Palko, where she was talking about collecting small stones with her father over the month of December, and was then going to create a small stone cairn with what they had created. I was intrigued and really connected with the idea, and, as a lover of…
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