Woven Words
Knitting together creativity, curiosity, and change.
Relearning my ABCs: Ambitious Birthdays Created with Love
As the “back to school” week wraps up, I’ve been reflecting on what I learned over the summer. The steepest learning curve came from a project that arrived in my head one day in mid-June and came with a built-in deadline: a significant birthday in late July. The idea...
A Family Thread: Four Generations of Textile Artists and Their Creative Legacy
This has been an extraordinary week of firsts for me, and one I’m very proud of. The launch of the Wheway Yarns website, the arrival of freshly minted business cards with Textile Artist printed proudly beneath my name, and the presentation of a hugely successful...
Stitching Equality into the Board room: Gender Balance Woven in Thread
Like many of us, I’ve found aspects of the last 18 months hard. For me, a pinch point came at the start of this year when I was struggling with an echoey feeling in my head - an empty space with billowing tumbleweed where I was used to a hive of activity. ...
How Well Are We Cherishing All the Children?
I developed a fascination with creative data representation during the lockdowns of 2020/21 and I wrote at length previously about how that brought me to present Gender in the Board rooms of Ireland as a hand-knitted scarf. Part of what I enjoyed was the opportunity...
Wrapped in YAP – Weaving Data into Story
Some of the best ideas are born over good food, good company… and perhaps a glass of wine. It was the evening after YAP’s annual all-staff away day, a time when we gather to reflect on our successes, challenges, and the year ahead. I was chatting with two of YAP’s...
In the Fibre of Being: How One Tweet Sparked a Textile Journey
A post popped up in my Instagram feed recently, it was from @womensart1 and it featured a piece of knitting done by Sue Montgomery, a city councillor and borough mayor of Montreal. She knits in city council meetings to aid her concentration and decided to change...