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Laura Pottinger
@laurajpottinger.bsky.social
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Research Fellow in Geography @ University of Manchester
Currently researching #MakingSlowColour (slowness, activism, growing, crafting, seeds, textiles & creative methods). She/her.
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Beautiful square for #StitchAssemblyRGS25 featuring detail of key moments across the #RGS-IBG conference.

'The back with dangling “spiralling” threads signifies the invisible interconnections and on-going (future) weaving of seen and unseen'.

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Embroidery on a deep orange square of cotton fabric. In the centre, a circle of pattered yellow and white fabric; from top left clockwise there are embroidered stitched in the shape of a bird, a blue feathery plant, a curling wave, a broken leaf, a white flower and a star A deep orange coloured square of cotton fabric showing the back of embroidered stitches and long tails of cotton threads arranged in a spiralling formation around the square.
September 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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How might stitching help us get to know mosses on more intimate terms?

New coauthored paper from the MossWorlds project on stitching sphagnum moss and doing creative, interdisciplinary work in geography labs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Embroidered moss made from a selection of textural green fabrics attached to plain cotton fabric stretched across an embroidery hoop. A brown label with the handwritten words 'laboratory incident' is attached to the fabric.
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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'Thank you very much for bringing this idea to the conference! It was so creative and fun! Sorry I went a bit out of the square shape.'
Stitched quilt square - a central brown square overlaid with fabric and stitches forming an eye shape in the centre, a patterned fabric leaf shape at the top point, and narrow ribbons of fabric in beige, green and blue tones attached to the bottom point.
September 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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'My daughter (thirteen years old) and I stitched up a small piece together. Thank you for conducting this project of kindness and creativity.'
Stitched quilt square - rectangles of cotton and linen fabric in shades of pink, yellow and cream overlaid and attached with a running stitch and embroidered star or flower shape in the centre
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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'My piece traces the geography of my learning journey, and my journeys across the country (...) The blanket stitch which runs along the top of the piece is the 'golden thread' which brings/holds it all together (which I am still seeking within my own research project : )'
Stitched quilt square - overlaid fabrics in warm orange and beige tones, with some frayed edges. A variety of different embroidery stitches, including broken lines that look like river tributaries or road networks. Blanket stiches around the edges of the quilt square
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Stitched quilt square 'Unhomely Home' - a muted pink background with three strips of fabric in grey and salmon tones overlaid at right angles in a cross hatch formation
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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'Homely home/Unhomely home.
Forgetting, remembering, designing, creating. Boring transformation making homes unhomes. Missing and protecting homely homes. Concrete jungle, generic spaces. Turned into dust. Lakes, woods, heaven on Earth. In my mind.'
Stitched quilt square 'Homely Home' - a dark grey background fabric overlaid with an orange circle (top left), a tall yellow triangle (right), a band of frayed blue denim (bottom), attached date palm fibres (left) and stitching in beige threads, giving the effect of a sun in a dark sky over water
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections!
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Two overlapping stitched squares. The bottom has dark grey and yellow small shapes stitched onto a salmon pink background, and the top features an embroidered raised fist with the text AC2025 RGS Black Teacher. A small yellow flower sits alongside the stitched piece.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Featuring illustrations from the brilliant Jack Brougham.
Open access article here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
A comic style illustration of a large cat jumping out of a cardboard box that reads 'methods' on its side, towards a person sitting in a wheelchair who looks surprised. Text reads 'research can be lively, messy and chaotic!' Papers, pens and pencils are also flying out of the box.
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG

Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session.

If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there!
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scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours
August 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵
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A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM