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Moira Carter
- Jun 29, 2021
- 6 min
Art, health and healing
There's a lot said about art therapy and how it helps those in mental and/or physical pain, but what about those who already create, the...
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Moira Carter
- May 1, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day – Jenny Southam
I first saw Jenny's work in Ruthin craft centre and it was love at first sight, whenever we visited I'd make a bee line for the shop, and...
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Moira Carter
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day – El Innocent
On one of my wanderings around the internet I found a fascinating article about the Abramtsevo, an art centre just outside Moscow. I'd...
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Moira Carter
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Seashells – a perennial favourite
I've been thinking about the sea quite a bit just recently, I'm missing it, and this led me to thoughts of seashells. I've had a few...
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Moira Carter
- Jan 3, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day - Serizawa Keisuki
Superbly drawn and full of dynamic movement, this is just fantastic! Kimono shaped comforter, Edo period, 19th century, indigo dyeing,...
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Moira Carter
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Pattern perfect!
It's August, it's time for Summer School with Make It In design. I've taken this twice before, it's always challenging and great fun and...
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Moira Carter
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
Serendipity - the happy accident!
Horace Walpole proposed this 'new' word in 1754 – after reading The three princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were...
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Moira Carter
- Jan 25, 2019
- 1 min
Something new!
It's a New Year and January looks like this - a new collection - and some of these and a couple of variations have already been submitted...
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Moira Carter
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
From feed sacks to frocks!
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Right time, right place, fulfilling a need and getting a life of it's own, becoming...
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