Category Archives: Design
Craftivism
Merseyside Etsy Team: Paper House Hunting From the Archives – 2016: “On Saturday 18th June the Merseyside Etsy Team will be filling the city with craft and asking people to come #PaperHouseHunting with them in aid of the Whitechapel Centre. Using shared skills, team members will be creating papercut and origami houses bearing the hashtagsContinue reading “Craftivism”
Mindful Crochet Workshops
I have added this NEW workshop to my website as it has become clearer in recent years the benefits to wellbeing crafting has on us. I have personally found that when I am crocheting in my own time, I find it relaxing, satisfying and mood boosting. I enjoy the feel of yarn in my hands,Continue reading “Mindful Crochet Workshops”
New crochet makes
My sister has just had a baby girl, meaning I have another niece. So of course I had to make her some crochet gifts. I made a ‘kitten rattle’ following the pattern by Inna Chybinova, on Instagram as @inna_chi_hm . I also made a pair of ‘tiger booties’, which I designed myself. My niece isContinue reading “New crochet makes”
art and design blog
Welcome to my blog! Here you will find a variety of posts I have written over the years, covering art and craft projects and exhibitions, as well as my current design work.
Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’
From the Archives: Liverpool Independents Biennial 2012 ‘Hospitality Reviewed’ project and exhibition. Re-view Textiles is a group of artists who work with a variety of textiles and in diverse disciplines. meeting regularly to work together on exhibitions and events around Merseyside. The latest project is an exhibition at Liverpool’s Baltic Creative, based on the themeContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’”
Art in Liverpool: The Black-E: Creative and Co-operative Games
My time at The Black-E is one I will never forget. I first arrived at the Community Arts Charity to volunteer on their extensive archive – chronologising the paper archive and tabulating events in an Excel database and helping to create a taxonomy from the paper archive. At this time I was grateful for theContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: The Black-E: Creative and Co-operative Games”
Learning to teach crochet at Liverpool craft centre Abakhan
I first started teaching crochet in 2017 after I saw Abakhan’s call for tutors on Facebook. I had facilitated arts and crafts workshops before in my job at The Black-E Community Arts Charity, but thought ‘am I good enough to actually teach?’ Turns out the Managers at Abakhan thought it was worth taking a chanceContinue reading “Learning to teach crochet at Liverpool craft centre Abakhan”
Amanda Jones Art and Design 