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Jill Carter’s Dreams, Masks and Mirrors at the RWA, Bristol
Costume dolls at Dreams, Masks and Mirrors, with the permission of the artist This is a slightly different post because it isn’t about quilting until the end. But it is about creativity and...
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The Laura Ashley project begins to gather pace…
Laura Ashley Quilts There hasn’t been much activity on my blog for the last week because I have been so busy with my day job. A big part of it was a bit of a treat as well: three days of being taught...
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Laura Ashley mini quilt 2 – the start of something big?
Laura Ashley sample mini quilt 2 This is the second of my Laura Ashley sample quilts. They are very small, probably 2.5 x 4.5 inches, which is why they are so quick to produce. One of the things that...
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Adventures in reading
Jeanette Winterson I have been doing a bit of traveling recently, and the older I get the less I like it. I think it’s because so many things have gone wrong over the years that I haven’t got that...
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Try not to get too excited…
I have just published a new permanent page on this blog. This is entirely to do with a publisher getting anxious about copyright (always a thorny subject). The compromise was that I would put the...
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Ghost dolls at Hawkwood
I have spent most of the week at Hawkwood College just outside Stroud, Gloucestershire, on a writing retreat. I’ve been to Hawkwood before and I knew that it had a real shabby chic style in the main...
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What I did at the weekend – collectively
As I blogged earlier in the week, I spent the weekend with a group of people interested in collaborative writing techniques. In the event we did a fair amount of arts-based inquiry into our subjects,...
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My latest doll
I apologise for the large gap that there has been between posts. The first reason for this is that I have been travelling a lot for the day job, but the second reason, which is more interesting, is...
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Hello, I’m back
It has been quite a while since I posted. This is because of a combination of extensive travel and the consequences thereof, but I am on the mend, and ready to blog again. One of the events that I...
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Sorry about the gap
I’m very sorry that I haven’t posted much this month. Oddly May-July is a really busy time for me and a lot of academics. We have exams, exam marking, exam boards, external examining of other...
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A post as much for me as you
Today is a momentous day. I have finally started work towards my book. I have sat down and written out plans before for a book which all came to nothing, because I think books have to be ‘ready’...
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Triple Writing
I was at a meeting yesterday where we were discussing our research and various ways of getting it out beyond a narrow academic audience, when my colleague, Deborah Wilson, introduced me to a new...
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Triple Writing
I was at a meeting yesterday where we were discussing our research and various ways of getting it out beyond a narrow academic audience, when my colleague, Deborah Wilson, introduced me to a new...
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Triple Writing
I was at a meeting yesterday where we were discussing our research and various ways of getting it out beyond a narrow academic audience, when my colleague, Deborah Wilson, introduced me to a new...
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