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CRAFT with a Why
This is an edited version of the talk I gave at The Norfolk Makers Festival in February 2019. It's quite long and there aren't any nice pictures. A few months ago I passed a shop window display made up almost…
How to be a Creative Genius (yes – really!)
"Are you coming out to play?" When was the last time anyone asked you that? I'm guessing it was some time ago, when you were very young. This question is usually delivered by someone with grubby hands and bruised legs. It…
Making Sense of Colour
Can I ask you a personal question? How's your relationship with colour these days? Does your heart sing, or skip a beat, when you catch a glimpse of an unexpected colour combination? If it does; Hooray! Congratulations....I'm so happy for…
Homage to the (Granny) Square
“Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative…
Natural Dyes, Collaboration and Story Telling
Do you find the subject of natural dyeing fascinating - but also a little strange and mysterious? Unlike the neat little sachets of Dylon they seem to hold a strange alchemy requiring specialist knowledge that can only be gained through…
On Freedom Fighters, Peace Keepers and Crochet Berets.
The Beret. Yes, I know it's a bit of a fashion cliché - but sometimes I rather like clichés. They have a certain old fashioned charm to them that can make a refreshing change to the politicised spin that's constantly…