A past life — Mary Whitehouse

I can be found mostly stitching, or thinking about stitching!

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It seems appropriate to begin posting my Building Hope 'coasters' as the One Million Acts of Hope campaign gets going. @1mactsofhope
Thanks to @bartonquilter for this suggestion.
So how would you make the your community a more hopeful place? In 6 wo

Second day #threadsfestival @sunnybankmills with work from our BA Textiles Practice course.
Many great conversations yesterday, including with @janicegunnertextiles , @cuttsandsons , @melanielovesquilts @sometimes_katy_quilts @scrappyquiltsbyfay
Co

This weekend is Threads Festival @sunnybankmills
Alongside an amazing Makers Market there will be an exhibition by @the62group
and also a taster exhibition of work by we BA textiles practice students ahead of our graduate show next month.
If you&r

Building Hope
There are many ways to make our communities more friendly. And thinking laterally and literally while in a queue, ‘one for me and one for you’ makes everyone feel a bit better about their fellow human beings.
So how would y

And this is how it all began, my activist stitching began with this very shouty quilt at Festival of Quilts 2023. Inspired by my #fdatextilespractice @bradfordtextiles .
This weekend it will be in the @whiterosequilters display at St Chad's Centenary

Building Hope
In these dark times we need to think of those in our community who are feeling threatened and unwanted.
Take time to give them a kind word, a smile, just to let them know they are a valued part of the community.
Please share your sugges

Building Hope
Crowd sourced suggestions for actions that can make our communities more welcoming to all, no matter what faith they hold or where they are from.
If you have a suggestion for building hope in 6 words or fewer, then please comment. Thank

It is a while since I posted about my work. I have been busy preparing for our final degree show, and other stuff that has filled my head.
MY main work is entitled 'Building Hope' and there seems to be a dearth of hope at the moment, I thought I'd sh

Lovely to be at the opening of the @oldparcelsofficeartspace Open yesterday.
And great to find other artists using text in their work, including @ellie_clewlow_studio and @k.drakeart
I’ve also included a photo of Ethel by @maryannstevensartis

Just delivered ‘Inside Pages’ to @oldparcelsofficeartspace for the Open Exhibition next month.
This piece raises awareness of the many conflicts in the world that don’t even make the inside pages of many newspapers. Thanks to @guar

West Coast Life

Mar 15

Mar 15 West Coast Life

Getting things done with a Bullet Journal and the Midori notebook system

Apr 29

Apr 29 Getting things done with a Bullet Journal and the Midori notebook system

Apr 16

Apr 16 Family history

Dec 27

Dec 27 Christmas soup

A walk on the walls

Dec 16

Dec 16 A walk on the walls

Dec 11

Dec 11 Haar

Dec 7
Dec 7 Colour Journal Project

Dec 6
Dec 6 Ganbatte! 頑張って

Dec 5
Dec 5 Returning to blogging world

Aug 13
Aug 13 Making Games - and now its all over!

Aug 6
Aug 6 First Games shift

Aug 5
Aug 5 London 2012 - first post

Jun 22
Jun 22 Its been a long time

Jan 9
Jan 9 So far so good....

Jan 2
Jan 2 Losing it

Nov 20
Nov 20 Walking in the City

Nov 13
Nov 13 What I did at the weekend

Nov 6
Nov 6 Walking not blogging

Sep 20
Sep 20 Walking is good

Sep 10
Sep 10 30 minutes