Our 8th year!
We are really excited to release our 8th set of prompts to you – we love to see how you use your creativity to interpret the prompts, and delight in your wonderful images of textiles and the insights into how you work.
Everyone is welcome to join in from anywhere in the world, the only requirement is you love textiles and have an Instagram account!
How it works: there is a prompt for every day in September and you can respond to as many, or as few, as you like on Instagram. To help you get organised you can download our pdf planner. In your caption use the exact hashtags #SeptTextileLove and #SeptTextileLove24, and tag @seam_collective, so that we and all the other participants can find your posts to like and comment. (It’s also helpful if you include the prompt you are responding to, as sometimes different time zones can make it difficult to tell which post is for which day or prompt.)
Each year it seems that Instagram makes it a little harder to see everyone’s posts, rather than just the most popular, so we recommend that you follow the hashtags #SeptTextileLove and #SeptTextileLove24 too. Even if you don’t post it is great to take part in our textile conversations and connect with other textile lovers – such a feast for our eyes and brains!
Tip: In your feed, Instagram suggests a lot of posts for you, rather than showing you the people and hashtags you follow. On your phones you can change this by clicking on the arrow just to the right of ‘Instagram’ (in the top left corner), this gives you a drop-down list, and you can select ‘Following’ to just see the people you are following in your feed. Unfortunately, you have to do this every time you open Instagram.
We have changed a lot of the prompts from last year, but, as always, kept some of our favourites like the final post Favourite post from another participant. There are no right or wrong ways to interpret a prompt, but obviously, a love of textiles places fibres and skills at the heart of the posts. It is hard to predict which prompts you will find the most difficult, and we apologise if we sometimes use English that is difficult to interpret in different languages. Here are some ideas for a few of our new prompts, but you may have better ideas – your creativity often astounds us!
- Questions – this could be a textile question you would like to ask the community, questions you are asking as part of your textile work, questions people ask you about your textiles…
- Planning – do you plan your textiles or are you mindful and spontaneous? What are you planning for your next project? How do you plan the making of your textiles? Are you planning to spend more time on textiles? What happens when your textile plans get interrupted?
- Comedy moment – do you have any textile laughs you can share? Can you look back on past mistakes and laugh now? Does your work involve making people laugh or smile? Or do you have a favourite work by another artist that makes you laugh? Or do you laugh whenever anyone asks you ‘how long did that take?’, or ‘how big is your stash?’?
- Gathering – this could be an opportunity to arrange a textile gathering and meet some of your Instagram friends who are local to you in real life, perhaps choose a textile exhibition to meet up at? Or do you have regular textile gatherings? Or what about gathering fabric, or bringing together different materials to work with?
- Superpower – do you have a textile superpower? An exceptional or extraordinary textile power or ability? Or if you could choose, what would your textile superpower be? What would you use it to combat?
We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow, including our old friends from previous years and hopefully lots of new friends too!
Penny Wheeler
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