Studio update
Not one to make life easy for myself, I had a mad idea the other day to add a whole new section to the Beautiful Baubles course – that could […]
Botanical Embroidery with Maggie Schnücker (25)
We chat with Maggie Schnücker about her work and her new book.
Studio update
What would this look like if it were easy?
Studio update
Experiments! My main sewing machine has been away for a service, so I’ve had to use my no. 2 machine – funny how it took me forever to get used […]
Blowing our own trumpet (24)
Marketing or blowing our own trumpet: it’s hard!
Choosing my colours
Hmm, my favourite colours: imperialist yellowy green, ordained cobalt, inhaling peacock blue, scorned mango, or unalienable pinkish? Maybe not! The boring thing moving my mailing list* has been negotiating all […]
Transferable skills (23)
Do we have skills from other areas of life that help us in our art? That’s what Gina and I are pondering this week, after spending a day learning an […]
Running a creative business – with Viv Arthur (22)
In this episode Gina chats to Viv Arthur of Art Van Go, about how she came to be running such a successful and unique creative business. I remember distinctly the […]
Deep and meaningful (21)
In this episode, we discuss whether art needs to be deep and meaningful, whether it can just be for fun – or perhaps creating for fun is in fact creating meaningful art!
A little stitch book
This stitch book was an idea that evolved as I created it. Last year, right before lockdown, I had started to assemble fabrics to create a fabric book of some of […]