I am very grateful to the jurors of this year's Marian Hebb Research Grant Program. Funding like this is crucial to writers, artists, and arts organizations in an undervalued industry.
“To create [and reveal] one’s own world takes courage.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
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Congratulations to the thirty-three creators and publishers awarded $140,000 in grant funding towards the creation of new Canadian published works, including @boneblackstories.bsky.social, Caroline Adderson, Karen Miranda Augustine, @nadinebachan.bsky.social, Marta Balcewicz...
The finished projected being blocked:
The finished project:
Malaga print yarn held with navy blue yarn, both worsted acrylic using a 6.5mm hook. Self-designed.
Project: Belated Mother's Day gift - a basket for my mom.
#crochet #magiccircle #handmade #acrylicyarn #mothersday #FO #finishedobject
Friends Cotton 8/4 Mercerized, black.
Shell fan stitch (using modified technique # 84 from mypicot.com) with a 3.0mm hook.
Project: Purse for my sister.
#crochet #picot #handmade #cotton #hobbii #purse #FO #finishedobject
Crochet and knitting gauge, wooden, from Hobbii
I've got some fun ideas for this sweet gauge I recently purchased from the Danish yarn company Hobbii.
Can't wait!
#crochet #knitting #hobbii #yarn #wip
Photo of Nadine Bachan, side profile, by Kamil Bialous for Maisonneuve, 2014.
Wow, a decade just flew by!
My first essay was published in 2014 by Maisonneuve with images from a photoshoot by the extraordinarily talented Kamil Bialous.
I pondered the perceptions of dialect, and my personal history with the Trinidadian accent: maisonneuve.org/article/2014...
#canlit #bipoc
Get in Trouble by Kelly LInk
#currentlyreading
Cover artwork of Teresa Wong'a memoir All Our Ordinary Stories: A Mutligenerational Family Odyssey
"Wong has a gift for gently holding the reader’s hand as she takes us into the depths of perseverance and struggle ... into a “legacy of longing."
Read the full review in The Fiddlehead's 303 issue (Spring 2025) and online here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/nadi...
