#SeptTextileLove Day 30: Favourite Post
This is my favourite post from this year’s #septtextilelove. The colours! The textures! It makes me want to touch it, hold it, look at it...
#SeptTextileLove Day 29: Best Part
One of the best parts of my textile journey has been the fabulous people I’ve met who have become friends along the way... especially...
#SeptTextileLove Day 28: Detail
I’m a detail sort of person. However beautiful the whole landscape, building or room, I’ll be the person taking pictures of broken bits...
#SeptTextileLove Day 26: Historical/Key Influences
I love scenes of industrial decay. I know they’re a blot on the landscape, but they do always have wonderful colours and textures. ...
#SeptTextileLove Day 25: Edge
These are two samples produced when experimenting with what used to be called broomstick lace. The stretching and pinning of the edges...
#SeptTextileLove Day 24: Overcoming
It’s really frustrating to spend two days setting the loom up only to find when you actually start weaving that there’s an error in the...
#SeptTextileLove Day 22: Worst Part
To me, the worst part of weaving is warping. It’s not hideous, and I have picked up techniques over time that have speeded the process...
#SeptTextileLove Day 21: Magazines/Blogs
I’ve been buying the Scandinavian magazine VÄV for almost 12 years now. I love Scandinavian textiles – practical and beautiful – and am...
#SeptTextileLove Day 20: Nature
Nature can be an intriguing source of design ideas. Here contrasting qualities of nature are evident. The rigid vs the fluid, the...
#SeptTextileLove Day 19: Research
Some of my research for a project on Blackwell, the stunning Arts and Crafts house in Cumbria. A human scale “stately home” I would have...
