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Insights on creative wellbeing, textile crafts, and mindful making.
For Professionals: Creative Wellbeing Through Textile Practice
Exploring how gentle textile processes support embodied awareness, reflective practice and creative wellbeing for professionals working in education, counselling, psychotherapy and wellbeing.
Creativity, Presence and Embodied Expression
How reading The Creative Act and attening Therapeutic Arts Training has shaped my Holistic Approach to Textiles Art
Returning to the Circle
Creativity doesn’t move in straight lines. In this reflection, I share why circles sit at the heart of my practice — as both decorative forms and deeper structures — and how a circular way of making invites us to slow down, notice, and return to creativity with care.
Why Slow Making Matters in a Digital Age
Slow making offers a quiet return to touch, rhythm and presence in a fast digital world. Through simple stitch, we reconnect with our senses and allow awareness to emerge gently through cloth and thread.
For Professionals: Creative Wellbeing Through Textile Practice
Exploring how gentle textile processes support embodied awareness, reflective practice and creative wellbeing for professionals working in education, counselling, psychotherapy and wellbeing.
Identity: What Victoria Villasana Teaches Us About Making Meaning Through Stitch
Inspired by Victoria Villasana, this piece explores how stitch, limited colour and gesture can become a personal language — inviting identity to emerge through making rather than thinking.
Insights from Research
Textile making isn’t just about skill or finish, it’s about attention. Slowing down, noticing materials, and staying present with each stitch. What we often call craftsmanship can simply be attentive making and bringing care to the process.
Drawing
Drawing Circles: Letting Making Lead