Author/ Lecturer Profiles
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- Read about some very talented Authors and lecturers and see what drives them
Blog Posts
- A class of their own
- Textile education. Today’s textile students tackle the here & now. If you love working with textiles and wish you could be making a living in the area, is 2009 the year you start looking at options? This month ‘get creative’ steps inside the hallowed halls of one of Australasia’s most ...
- Freeforming into the future
- Creating textured surfaces with Jenny Dowde. ‘Surface Works’ by Australian artist, Jenny Dowde, is about adding surface decoration to plain knitted or crocheted backgrounds. Through more than 30 projects Jenny, using traditional and freeform approaches, provides numerous suggestions for creating textured surfaces in knitting and crochet, using fancy yarns, handmade ...
- Knitting in times of trouble
- Lela Nargi is the editor of a wonderful book for knitters and non-knitters alike called ‘Knitting Through It: Inspiring Stories for Times of Trouble’. A collection of writings from contemporary authors as well as some taken from the WPAs Federal Writers Project in the USA, the book brings together stories ...
- Craft retreats
- RETREAT, RETREAT Why crafters just love to get away! Finding a few hours of peace and quiet at home where we can concentrate on some creative work - quiet writing, organising photographs for scrapbooking, some stitching, perhaps a spot of knitting - can sometimes be an insurmountable challenge. Between mounds ...
- Inside the studios of creative women
- In the late 1920s the famous English author, Virginia Woolf, delivered some essays that came to be published under the title, ‘A Room of One’s Own’. In the years since, these writings have become famous for one of the key messages they presented; that “a woman must have money and ...
- Skirtgirl - Alison Willoughby
- British author and textile designer Alison Willoughby creates gloriously sculptural skirts that look as sensational on as they do hanging in the grooviest galleries of Europe and the USA. Describe Alison Willoughby as a craftsperson and she’s liable to wince. The acclaimed graduate of London’s Royal College of Art admits ...
Projects
- Embellished skirt
- Inspired by Alison Willoughby... try our version of skirt art.
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