Latest Handembroidery Podcast Episodes
Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business
Stitchery Stories - December 12, 2023 16:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art. In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Hannah shares her story and we dive into what s...
Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey
Stitchery Stories - September 15, 2023 14:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career. Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using modern materials and mixed media, there are plenty of exciting 'firsts' to celebrate with Holly! We join Holly at the start of her first art exhibition. She...
Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel
Stitchery Stories - August 03, 2023 13:59 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today! She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her creative business to focus on teaching people around the world through her online courses and her unique membership The No-Rules Textiles Society. Jayne...
Emma Horan: Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit Designer
Stitchery Stories - May 24, 2023 12:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stitch hand embroidery kits of the beautiful Cornish coast. For the last 10 years, Emma has grown her cross stitch kit business from a therapeutic hobby as sh...
Lottie Cockell : Growing Her Creative Business From Hand Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - April 21, 2023 11:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsLottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over the last 5 years. With a love of 'grid-based' hand embroidery, Lottie focuses on cross-stitch, blackwork and surface embroidery kits. She is keen to try ...
Prism Textiles Group: behind the scenes of their annual textile art exhibition
Stitchery Stories - April 07, 2023 09:03 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsPrism Textile Group members Hayley Mills-Styles and Maria Walker share behind-the-scenes challenges of helping to organise an annual textile art exhibition which features work from the groups' international members. Hayley & Maria explain the background and history of this well-known exhibitin...
Sarah Gwyer : Contemporary Embroidery Beaded Pop Art
Stitchery Stories - March 15, 2023 16:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday I explore hand embroidered and beaded pop art with contemporary pop art textile artist Sarah Gwyer. We talk about her magpie-like 'obsession' with colourful beads and charms and the artistic path to creating beaded portraits. But beneath the colourful sparkling beads lies strong social...
Vanessa Marr: Domestic Dusters: Embroidery On Women And Domesticity
Stitchery Stories - February 24, 2023 15:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsBack in 2014, textile artist, academic & designer Vanessa Marr posed the question: Women & Domesticity - What's Your Perspective? And invited those thoughts to be embroidered upon a yellow duster, in red thread. Little did she realise what she had unleashed... Nine years later, Vanessa has...
Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project
Stitchery Stories - February 09, 2023 10:18 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress. It's an amazing project which has enabled unheard women, many in poverty, vulnerable through trauma and abuse, to share their person...
Merrilyn Heazlewood : Creative Counted Canvaswork Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - January 20, 2023 15:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsEmbroidery artist Merrilyn Heazlewood shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She takes us on a journey through her interesting and busy lifelong creative business career based around counted canvas work hand embroidery. And for those of you in the USA, ...
Stitchery Stories Listeners Creative Joy Highlights 2022
Stitchery Stories - December 29, 2022 10:53 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsA cheerful & inspiring episode as global listeners of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast share their stories of creative joy from 2022, and shoutout those 'joy bringers' who helped them in some way to achieve that joy. Hello & Welcome to my final episode of 2022. A recurring theme is how ...
Elizabeth Griffiths : Using hand embroidery for Portrait Artist Of The Year competition
Stitchery Stories - December 09, 2022 10:22 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsElizabeth Griffiths is a mixed media artist using hand embroidery, lino print-making, inks and watercolours to explore a range of themes. She shares the uplifting experience (and challenge!) of using hand embroidery as a competitor in Sky TV Portrait Artist Of The Year. We dive behind the sc...
Stacey Jones : Modern Abstract Hand Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - November 22, 2022 17:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsStacey Jones creates colourful, modern, abstract hand embroidery art. Her work powerfully reflects her thoughts & emotions through her life experiences. Stacey shares her story of how her life with her husband has strongly informed her embroidery designs, particularly his illness, tragic death...
Floriane Schmitt : Creative Fabric Manipulation Ideas
Stitchery Stories - November 02, 2022 20:11 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsFloriane Schmitt loves to experiment with creative fabric manipulation ideas. Under her brand name of FloHomeDesign she creates accessories and home decor items from smocked neoprene and is writing a fabric manipulation book, due out end 2023. Floriane shares her story of how her dream of a ca...
Cath Janes : Hand Embroidered Human Anatomy
Stitchery Stories - October 19, 2022 13:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCath Janes is an award-winning human anatomical embroidery artist. Under her brand name of Kraken Kreations she combines anatomically correct illustrations with colourful hand embroidery which all have a story to tell. Cath shares her honest and hilarious story of the ups and downs of the cr...
Susan Hensel : Communicating Ideas Through Digital Machine Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - October 05, 2022 09:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsSusan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist with a long-established career. She combines mixed media with digital machine embroidery to create beautiful sculptural forms flooded with colour. Alongside runs her gallery & curatative experience, giving us a fabulous guest sharing her art practice wi...
Jennie-maree Tempest : Beautiful Botanical Sculptures
Stitchery Stories - October 31, 2021 16:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsJennie-maree Tempest is a textile artist living on the Bass Coast of Australia. After many years creating art quilts and portraits, she has decided to challenge her textile art skills and creativity by creating textile art botanical sculptures. Jennie-maree focuses her creativity inspired by t...
Nikki Parmenter: Exuberant mixed-media textile artist
Stitchery Stories - September 29, 2021 09:52 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Nikki Parmenter shares her life in fabric & thread & a wide range of interesting materials too! She chats with Susan Weeks about the wide range of inspirations and materials that she uses to create her large scale art. And although Nikki has ...
Tanya Bentham : What is Opus Anglicanum embroidery?
Stitchery Stories - June 16, 2021 10:34 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTanya Bentham is an expert in the style of hand embroidery known as 'Opus Anglicanum'. It is a style of embroidery that was prevalent in the 13th & 14th centuries in England. Very specific stitches are used in a specific way with specific materials and style. Tanya shares her fascinating story...
Vendulka Battais: An inspiring textile artist moving with the times
Stitchery Stories - May 26, 2021 12:07 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsVendulka Battais is a textile artist, quilter, embroiderer and designer who started her creative journey making clothes with her mum in the Czech Republic. She learnt simple patchwork when she moved to the UK and was looking for a new hobby! Vendulka shares her fabulous story of where that ear...
Lorraine Turner: textile art supporting endangered animals
Stitchery Stories - April 21, 2021 11:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsLorraine Turner is a textile artist who gives support for endangered animals through her vibrant textile art. Lorraine has been a practicing artist for many years as a graphic designer, working on wide variety of commercial projects but her adventure into textile art started a few years ago, a...
Catriona Baird : The Story Of The Paisley Pattern and Paisley Shawls
Stitchery Stories - April 11, 2021 12:39 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCatriona Baird is Textiles Curator at Paisley Museum, in Scotland, which celebrates it's 150th anniversary on 11th April 2021. Catriona shares the story of the Paisley pattern - that swirly floral stylised teardrop motif that pops up in so many designs and objects, as well as of course on the ...
Gail Cowley: The School Of Stitched Textiles
Stitchery Stories - March 24, 2021 15:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDr Gail Cowley is the founder and director of The School Of Stitched Textiles. Through the school, Gail offers a range of courses from beginner through to advanced practitioner, in a range of textile related subjects. As we hit the one year anniversary of Covid disruptions, lockdowns and chall...
Ruth Norbury: Capturing urban decay with textile art
Stitchery Stories - March 10, 2021 13:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsRuth Norbury is a textile artist who specialises in creating urban decay art. But Ruth is full of contrasts and surprises, and today we dig into her story. She is almost entirely self taught, and loves to experiment to create the look and feel of her textile art. It's an ongoing challenge to rep...
Penny Hill: Embroiderers Guild In Crisis
Stitchery Stories - February 24, 2021 11:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThe Embroiderers' Guild in the UK was established back in 1906 and is a charity established to build awareness of stitch and textile art. They educate, encourage, inspire and promote the achievement of excellence. And also the Guild preserves an important collection of embroidery and textile art...
Deanne Fitzpatrick : Rug Hooking Artist
Stitchery Stories - February 10, 2021 15:19 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDeanne Fitzpatrick is the artist and businesswoman behind HookingRugs, a globally popular rug hooking business based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Deanne shares with us a very interesting glimpse behind the scenes of her daily life as an artist and creative business owner. Susan Weeks chats with Dea...
Mary Corbet: Hand Embroidery Blogger, Designer, Teacher
Stitchery Stories - January 27, 2021 15:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsMary Corbet is the creator behind 'Needle N Thread' a globally popular and very long-standing hand embroidery blog. It is very much the hub of her brand, and through it, Mary shares her beautiful hand embroidery designs and kits, embroidery 'how-to' videos and creates an informative and enjoyabl...
Cindy Jackson : An Expert In Tudor Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - January 13, 2021 19:14 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCindy Jackson is a freelance embroiderer, embroidery designer and embroidery tutor based in Ottawa, Canada, with a fascination for Tudor embroidery. In fact Cindy is an expert in this area, with published research papers and she has also developed kits and classes focused on Tudor embroidery. ...
Global Listener Stitchery Highlights 2020
Stitchery Stories - December 31, 2020 14:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHere we are on the final day of 2020 and what a challenge it has been! But we all know that so let's focus instead upon the inspiring highlights based around stitching, embroidery & textile art. Come and listen as Sue Weeks presents some fabulous 2020 Stitchery Highlights from listeners from...
Susan Weeks: Christmas 2020
Stitchery Stories - December 23, 2020 09:21 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAs we head towards Christmas 2020, Sue Weeks, from Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, shares her Christmas Greetings. Sue is searching for your inspiring 2020 Stitchery Highlights to share in a special Highlights episode for the last day of 2020. She knows that they are ou...
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