Amanda Jane Textiles

Suffragette sashes and Mary Poppins Returns

This week I had the pleasure of leading a workshop as part of the East Durham Film Festival, ‘A Community-led pop-up art and film festival about our North’, coordinated by East Durham Creates (www.eastdurhamcreates.co.uk). NB This is a historic post – please note that the organisation is now called ‘No More Nowt’ (this is theirContinueContinue reading “Suffragette sashes and Mary Poppins Returns”

Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day was celebrated this week (8 March 2020) and I was pleased to see that Craft Courses produced a special feature about female course providers on their blog. This included women working in woodwork and metalwork – hurrah! You can find out more about women-led courses on the Craft Courses website: https://www.craftcourses.com ByContinueContinue reading “Women’s Day 2020”