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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...
Moira Carter
Jun 29, 20216 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
May 1, 20211 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
Apr 30, 20211 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
Apr 12, 20211 min read
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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,...
Moira Carter
Jan 3, 20211 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
Aug 6, 20201 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
May 6, 20193 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
Jan 25, 20191 min read
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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...
Moira Carter
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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