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Creativity and Instagram

April 8, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

  Instagram, it is a great platform to find inspiration, and some accounts are especially good at boosting our visual creativity. Instagram is an integral part of what we call the ‘visual web’. The visual web represents a continuing revolution in the way we communicate – it is a new language of images, stickers, videos … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative, Instagram, Instagram and Quilting Tagged: #, instagram

Beginning my Smitten Quilt affair

April 2, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

  Back in 2015, I started to see smitten quilts and hexagons appearing all over Instagram. I was so in love – so smitten. smitten (definition) Smitten means overwhelmed or struck by something, usually love. The way you light up every time the waiter comes over to your table, it’s obvious you’re smitten with him. In … [Read more…]

Posted in: Beginning my Smitten Quilt affair, Smitten Tagged: EPP, Smitten

Finished – The final wrap up of my new hexagon project

April 1, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

I started my new hexagon quilt in February 2015. It is now the end of March 2016 and it is completed all 1600+ pieces. I put a border on it, bound it and hand quilted it with Perle cotton. I used a #11 milliners needle and bottom line threads. The templates and papers were all from … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hexagons Tagged: newhexagon, rosettes

Instagram and Quilting

March 20, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

Part two of my Instagram series… Instagram would be one of the most favoured social media sites in the quilty world. It is photo based and quilters are very visual people so it makes sense that quilters and quilting images are flooding IG. IG is an app that you can download onto your phone. You … [Read more…]

Posted in: Instagram Tagged: #, instagram

Giving yourself permission

March 20, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

The second post in my creative series enjoy.. I often come across people who ask me to validate their creative choices. To like their work, their selections, colours, choices etc. It is as if they are asking permission to be creative, waiting to be validated in their choice to progress further in their creativeness. They … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative, Letting Go Tagged: creative, creative process

Treehouse Textiles – a quilt shop review

March 18, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

So for the basics Address    2B Empire St, Mornington Vic 3931 Phone        0427570950 Web        www.treehousetextiles.com.au Open        Mon-Friday 0930-1700 Saturday 0930-1630 There are two venues this is a review of the Mornington fabric store. There is a Merricks venue for workshops that I have written about here. Facebook Treehouse textiles is a modern, contemporary retail shop that has a workshop … [Read more…]

Posted in: Outings/Shows Tagged: observation, outings, shop review

No one reads my blog

March 18, 2016 by beneaththestitches 1 Comment

Okay, so I haven’t posted a blog in ages. Why is that? Well, there isn’t anyone reading my blog and I felt despondent. I jumped onto google analytics and there was 0 activity for February. I was so sad. It even meant that my family wasn’t reading my blog. I had made more of an … [Read more…]

Posted in: About me Tagged: writing

Letting Go

February 25, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

Another first post in a series today, my creative series. I hope to look at creativity and where is comes from, what inspires us and if there are ways to spark creativity. As I write more posts I will link them all together so hopefully you can just click and I can help you to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative Tagged: creative, creative process

What is Instagram?

February 21, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

I love Instagram and I think it is an invaluable tool for anyone who is creative. I am starting a few different series on my blog. One will be about Instagram or IG. I hope that is is useful or helpful to anyone who doesn’t know or understand Instagram. Social media is so popular it is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Instagram Tagged: #, business, instagram

Patchwork Passion – a quilt shop review

February 11, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

So for the basics Address    29 Hotham st (cnr Lock st) Cranbourne Phone        5995445 Web        www.blockofthemonth.com.au Open        Tues-Saturday 1000-1600 Facebook Patchwork Passions aims to help customers to find just the right fabric for their next project. They have an extensive BOM project program and many kits available. There are many quilting groups and classes are held regularly. They have … [Read more…]

Posted in: Outings/Shows Tagged: observation, outings, patchwork, quilting, shop review
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