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    Seashells – a perennial favourite
    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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    Pattern perfect!
    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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    Serendipity - the happy accident!
    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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    Something new!
    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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    I've never grown up!
    Moira Carter
    • Oct 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    I've never grown up!

    Some of you may have noticed I've been revamping the website and have been through several transitions. The first move was to update my...
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    Home again, home again...
    Moira Carter
    • Oct 14, 2018
    • 1 min

    Home again, home again...

    Gosh, it's the second week of October and I bet you're all wondering where I've been since my last post ...well I've been...
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    Inspiring Artist of the day - Jon Eric Riis
    Moira Carter
    • Aug 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    Inspiring Artist of the day - Jon Eric Riis

    Now and again I buy a magazine, not any magazine but something inspiring like Selvedge, Embroidery, Ceramics Review or Crafts. In the...
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    Process : From the top! Part 2
    Moira Carter
    • May 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Process : From the top! Part 2

    Now sometimes things do not go to plan, I start on one track and end up on another ...with something quite different. So I left you in...
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    Process : From the top! Part 1
    Moira Carter
    • May 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Process : From the top! Part 1

    Or how I created my latest fabric design for Spoonflower. I read the contest brief – Using at least two of the colors from the palette...
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    Process - STOP sowing, START sewing
    Moira Carter
    • Apr 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    Process - STOP sowing, START sewing

    Indulging in more Bootcamp loveliness with Lilla Rogers over at Make Art That Sells, and this month's mini assignment had us...
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    A Heroine - Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
    Moira Carter
    • Mar 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    A Heroine - Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

    Bootcamping again with Make Art That Sells, and this months assignment was Suffragettes. I was given Madeline (Madge) McDowell...
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    Elephant on Holiday!
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 28, 2018
    • 1 min

    Elephant on Holiday!

    The brief was to create an animal for a small child's T shirt. My first idea was a giraffe saying Hi! and the second was an elephant in a...
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    The Sketchbook Project 2018
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Sketchbook Project 2018

    Part of a Global Interactive Art Library which contains over 36,000 sketchbooks, from more than 100 countries, within the walls of the...
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    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 3
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 3

    Week four: The next decision was which part of the book I should illustrate, and I did these rough sketches of a scene where Eleanor...
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    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 2
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 2

    Weeks two and three I drew Eleanor some more and got to know her and how she would look when she laughed, smiled, cried or when she was...
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    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 1
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    How to illustrate a children's book : Part 1

    It seems ages since I told you all I was taking an online course with Make Art That Sells in Children's book Illustration, it was in...
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    Merry Christmas!
    Moira Carter
    • Dec 12, 2017
    • 1 min

    Merry Christmas!

    I was talking to my Aunt the other day and she reminded me that she has kept every Christmas card I have made and sent to her ...and that...
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    I made it!
    Moira Carter
    • Sep 14, 2017
    • 1 min

    I made it!

    As you all know I've been indulging in some CPD – Continuing Professional Development – with a wee twist, five fun and information packed...
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    Make Art That Sells
    Moira Carter
    • Jan 31, 2017
    • 3 min

    Make Art That Sells

    Unashamed plug for Lilla Rogers MATS courses. CPD for Illustrators! Being an artist is not the Bohemian dream some people think it is or...
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    Drawn by desire
    Moira Carter
    • Nov 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    Drawn by desire

    I recently read The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, in it there is a mention of a map signed by the cartographer who added "drawn by...
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