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🥾 Prof Kate Fletcher will be giving a Public lecture 'Hiking without Plastic' at the Emily Carr University of Art & Desi...
10/09/2026

🥾 Prof Kate Fletcher will be giving a Public lecture 'Hiking without Plastic' at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada, 6 Oct at 6:30pm PST.
Contemporary outdoor kit is dominated by the use of plastics, whose material qualities risk the separation of humans from nature.
🥾 Drawing from experiences of walking in the mountains of Norway and the hills and footpaths of the UK without synthetic fibres and fabrics, this talk will explore paths other than plastic ones.

🥾 Fletcher's Almanac Vol II, published 1 October, available to preorder now

🥾 Fletcher's Almanac Vol I, still available while stocks last
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

will be at Toppings & Co in Bath next Thursday to teach children to darn socks. Vouchers cover the cost of a copy of th...
06/09/2026

will be at Toppings & Co in Bath next Thursday to teach children to darn socks.
Vouchers cover the cost of a copy of the book and grant access to one adult and one child (8+). An additional £5 voucher can be spent in the bookshop on any book. (If you would like to bring 2 children, please book 2 places.)
Children's Imaginative Mending Workshop with Celia Pym for Socks, Thursday 10 September, 6pm

🏰 Quickthorn is going to Cardigan Castle for the Craft Festival Wales from 11 – 13 September and you can book online 🍄 W...
05/09/2026

🏰 Quickthorn is going to Cardigan Castle for the Craft Festival Wales from 11 – 13 September and you can book online

🍄 We have new darning kits and lots of vintage mushrooms for your repair needs

🍄 We'll have all our books plus some special offers and darning demonstrations

🍄 We have a tickets to give away! Like and share our post and give us a follow we'll draw a winner this weekend 🙂⚡

🏰 Quickthorn is going to Cardigan Castle for the Craft Festival Wales from 11 – 13 September and you can book online 🍄 ...
03/09/2026

🏰 Quickthorn is going to Cardigan Castle for the Craft Festival Wales from 11 – 13 September and you can book online
🍄 We have new darning kits and lots of vintage mushrooms for your repair needs

🍄 We'll have all our books plus some special offers and darning demonstrations

🍄 We have a tickets to give away! Like and share our post and give us a follow we'll draw a winner next weekend 🙂⚡
See you there?

BECOMING OUR PROPER SIZE⚡Kate Fletcher questions how changing the stories we tell about fashion might help us rediscover...
01/09/2026

BECOMING OUR PROPER SIZE
⚡Kate Fletcher questions how changing the stories we tell about fashion might help us rediscover our place within the living world in the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. It looks fab with the illustrations of Stephen Fowler too.
⚡The point is that we can change our worldviews, our stories and how we understand fashion
⚡The article suggests what we need is a powerful redirection that invites us into direct experience, the sensory body, practices of noticing, humility, accountability, and reverence. It is how we might dress to become our proper size in relation to the natural world
⚡Fletcher's Almanac Vol II is published on 1 Oct and available to preorder now

Rogue Artists' Studios CIC ・・・Meet our Studio Artist, Lynn Setterington, ahead of our Open Studios on Saturday 19th Se...
25/08/2026

Rogue Artists' Studios CIC
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Meet our Studio Artist, Lynn Setterington, ahead of our Open Studios on Saturday 19th September.

Mac & Mabel (95 × 84cm) celebrates our allotment Chairman and his dog, Mabel, and is hand-stitched using waste and old threads.

Lynn is a renowned British textile artist whose socially engaged quilts, embroideries and cloths celebrate the everyday and overlooked. Her work is held in collections including the V&A, Denver Museum and Whitworth Gallery.


Lisa Keefauver, MSW ・・・Creativity and GriefI just finished the most extraordinary and moving new book by Jane Harris a...
21/08/2026

Lisa Keefauver, MSW
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Creativity and Grief

I just finished the most extraordinary and moving new book by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds of The Good Grief Project. When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief is a gorgeous exploration into the ways creativity can be the medicine we need most in grief. It’s filled with imagery, insights, and ideas for incorporating rituals, arts, nature, and more into our lives as we learn to carry our loved ones with us into the future.

The stories shared are intimate and inspirational and a reminder that you don’t have to call yourself a creative person to benefit from creative exploration and what it means to live in the world after loss.

I urge you to pick up a copy of this book and check out all the incredible films, retreats, and other support this incredible husband and wife team have created for the world in the wake of their son Josh’s death.

✨I highly recommend you follow them here The Good Grief Project

✨Get your copy online at Bookshop.org or discover other options on their website.

✨You can also learn all about them by visiting their website at www.thegoodgriefproject.co.uk

✨Read the full review and essay on Subst*ack at 🔗 in bio or at AFGO with Lisa Keefauver

19/08/2026

This is Sue Brown, author of Collect Print Collage demonstrating at the NEC's Quilt Festival earlier this month. Her book is a great way to have a go at making some of these great images, even without the printing press that she is using. .brown21

Last night I watched the documentary about ADHD on channel 4 that has caused quite a stir. Without denying the issues ex...
19/08/2026

Last night I watched the documentary about ADHD on channel 4 that has caused quite a stir. Without denying the issues experienced by people who have difficulties associated with ADHD, it talked to professionals who pointed out the nebulous diagnostic criteria that currently exist and that there is little evidence that there is a physical difference in the brain, that is it's not a 'neurodivergence' like autism. The conclusion was that it's a societal construct, and that children are medicated because our schools are not structured adequately to cope with different learning styles. Go watch it and see what you think.
*spoiler alert* the presenter was diagnosed as having ADHD while not feeling in anyway disabled by it. For the people I know, it seems to be more of a super-power.
I'd be interested to know what other health professionals think about it and if they agree. Meanwhile, I refer you to our earlier book, Intelligent Hands, which looks at learning differences and how teaching outside the classroom is helpful to all of us, young or otherwise and the power of making with your hands and being outdoors.

While the sun is out cyanotypes are the thing as they need the bright light. In a few months time we'll be wondering whe...
14/08/2026

While the sun is out cyanotypes are the thing as they need the bright light. In a few months time we'll be wondering where it has gone. Sue Brown explains how to do it with simple step-by-step instructions in her latest book Collect Print Collage
"Cyanotype printing is both an intriguing way of working and completely compelling. There is a simplicity in a process that requires nothing more than sunlight, water and a couple of chemicals. Once the surface is coated with the mix of the two chemicals, it is simply a matter of laying down leaves, flowers and even found objects and exposing them to the sun." (and yes, you can do it on fabric too)
Extract from Collect Print Collage: Printing with Nature by Sue Brown, published by Quickthornbrown21

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