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Susan Weeks: Christmas 2020

Stitchery Stories - December 23, 2020 09:21 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
As 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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Kris Campbell : Making Massive Cross Stitch Flowers

Stitchery Stories - December 10, 2020 10:13 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Kris Campbell, a textile artist from New York state who has decided to take cross stitch to the absolute MAX! This is a fascinating story where we can see the threads of an artist's story come together in a body of work. In response to the global pandemic and the desire to make...

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Claire Fell: Machine Embroidery Artist

Stitchery Stories - November 25, 2020 16:50 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Claire Fell is a machine embroidery artist who believes that textile art is a haven from the harsh realities of what we call modern life! She has recently written her first book 'Machine Embroidery - Techniques and Projects' and Claire shares her story of how her 'creative outburst' came into be...

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Justine Warner: Textile art landscapes from a surprising source

Stitchery Stories - November 11, 2020 13:11 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Justine Warner is inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside on her doorstep and has developed a distinctive style for the textile art landscapes she creates. She works under the brand Pearl Loves Paisley. She loves to experiment with different techniques and materials. A VERY surprising ...

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Sharon Boggon : Creative Contemporary Embroidery Stitches

Stitchery Stories - October 28, 2020 14:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Sharon Boggon embraced the internet back in 1996 and has been an inspiring leader in embroidery both online and offline, for many years. She has a passion for building enriching communities of stitchers and strives to keep embroidery alive. Sharon reminds us how difficult it was in the early i...

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Erika Maizi : A personal journey through sacred embroidery

Stitchery Stories - October 15, 2020 13:04 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today on Stitchery Stories we have a very unique story, where embroidery has been the catalyst for a personal journey of discovery, of re-connecting with family and deep spiritual meanings. We are usually chatting about embroidery as an art form, or decoration of functional items. For Erika Ma...

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David Morrish: Disruptive Digital Embroidery

Stitchery Stories - October 15, 2020 13:02 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
The inspiration for today's episode of Stitchery Stories comes from litter, running and Sheffield Embroiderers' Guild. David Morrish is enjoying his exploration of digital embroidery and he very much enjoys collaborating with other artists to grow awareness and appreciation of embroidery as a vi...

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Phillipa Turnbull: Crewel Embroidery Specialist

Stitchery Stories - September 15, 2020 14:17 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Phillipa Turnbull is an expert on historic crewel embroidery and has spent the last 25 years building her embroidery business The Crewel Work Company, which sells exquisite crewel embroidery kits and organises luxury embroidery retreats. Phillipa shares many inspiring stories around the ups an...

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Collette Kinley: A Birds Eye View in hand embroidery

Stitchery Stories - August 26, 2020 12:12 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Collette Kinley is an embroidery artist who uses both free motion machine embroidery as well as hand embroidery, although she is really enjoying hand embroidery at the moment. Collette shares her story of how 'going for it' and a new piece of embroidery has sparked several exciting opportunities...

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Alison Carpenter-Hughes : free machine embroidery artist

Stitchery Stories - August 12, 2020 12:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Alison Carpenter-Hughes is a mixed-media artist who loves free machine embroidery. Today on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Alison shares her life in fabric and thread. And since she decided to give her art practice her focus and 'go for it', there have been some fantastic opportuniti...

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Meredith Woolnough: Machine Embroidered Natural Specimens

Stitchery Stories - July 15, 2020 15:54 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Meredith Woolnough shares her insight and techniques around the beautiful machine embroidered natural specimens she creates. They are inspired by the skeletal forms of flora and fauna, particularly those she finds on walks and scuba dives. Meredith has specialised in working exclusively with w...

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Jenni Dutton: Capturing The Complexities Of Aging Through Textile Art

Stitchery Stories - June 10, 2020 16:39 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Jenni Dutton who shares stories around her powerful work and the unique way in which she creates her large portraits. Although starting her creative journey as a fine artist, creating large oil pastel landscapes, Jenni ventured into textile art portraits. We talk about how life t...

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Annie Crane: Creating Textile Art With Whimsical Abandon

Stitchery Stories - May 27, 2020 16:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Annie Crane, from Fort Collins, Colorado, on her birthday. It's a milestone birthday and Annie is marking it as a new beginning. After years of putting everyone else first, Annie is stepping out into the creative world. She is excited about (finally) giving herself permission to de...

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Claire Edwards: Pushing The Boundaries Of Traditional Hand Embroidery

Stitchery Stories - May 20, 2020 13:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Claire Edwards, who embodies her brand name of Defiant Embroidery. Claire shares her fascinating story of how she discovered her creativity and passion for hand embroidery as part of her quest to discover her third career. After an enjoyable career in the RAF and then working wit...

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Jessica Aldred: Designing Her Life Through Embroidery

Stitchery Stories - May 13, 2020 15:42 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Jessica Aldred, a former Royal School of Needlework graduate and tutor, who combines her love of embroidery with her love of all things vintage! Jessica shares some fabulous career highlights with us as she is close to the new adventure of motherhood. With big changes coming alon...

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Susan Weeks: Some Thoughts and Questions around Stitchery Stories Podcast

Stitchery Stories - May 06, 2020 13:39 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we hear from Susan Weeks, the host of Stitchery Stories. Susan shares her thoughts around the future direction for this globally popular textile art podcast. She also unveils a Listener Survey that she would love everyone to complete. It's anonymous, only takes a minute and will really hel...

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Claire Mort: Powerful Pop Art in Hand Embroidery

Stitchery Stories - April 29, 2020 11:46 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Claire Mort, an award-winning British textile artist who creates colourful and powerful pop art using hand embroidery. And if you read 'Be Creative With Workbox' magazine, then you will already know her from her column, 'Morts Thoughts'. Claire has an inspiring story and we discu...

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Ilke Cochrane: Delightful Hardanger Embroidery

Stitchery Stories - April 15, 2020 12:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Today we meet Ilke Cochrane, a Dutch ex-pat living in the UK witha delightfully quirky sense of humour! Ilke has a great story, particularly around the name of her business brand... Mabel Figworthy's Fancies. As well as designing 'what she fancies' for kits and charts, Ilke runs workshops and ...

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Ami James Returns : Soothing Anxiety With Mindful Sewing

Stitchery Stories - April 01, 2020 16:13 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Ami James returns to Stitchery Stories today with a very positive message to share with us as we adjust to life 'under lockdown'. Ami was an early guest on Stitchery Stories back in October 2017 when we chatted about how textile art had changed her life after her diagnosis of bipolar disorder. I...

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Jane Austen Embroidery: The Stories Behind The Words And Stitches

Stitchery Stories - March 18, 2020 12:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Jane Austen Embroidery, the newly published book from Pavilion Books, created by Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin is the subject of this episode of the Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast. Both of these talented ladies are my friends and I have followed this book project closely over the last...

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Lianne Van Leyen : Creating cross stitch patterns from antique schoolgirl samplers

Stitchery Stories - February 26, 2020 13:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Lianne Van Leyen is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast, where she shares how she re-creates antique schoolgirl samplers into patterns for the modern cross stitch enthusiast. Lianne is the founder of 1897 Schoolhouse Samplers and is an avid collector of antique schoolgirl samplers. ...

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Kate Tume: powerful textile art to highlight species loss

Stitchery Stories - February 12, 2020 14:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Kate Tume is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast, where she shares how she creates powerful art from embroidery and textile art techniques to highlight the devastation of species loss and the destruction of our natural world. Susan Weeks chats with Kate about: What is an artists ...

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Eva Kitok: Textile artist making the most of spare minutes

Stitchery Stories - January 09, 2020 13:49 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Eva Kitok lives in the north of Sweden and has organised her life and career so she can make the most of her time and spend as much time as possible doing embroidery and creating textile art. She loves to embroider whilst watching TV on long winter evenings and also whilst cooking! Susan Weeks...

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Sharing 2019 Stitchery Stories Global Listener Highlights

Stitchery Stories - December 18, 2019 11:49 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
This week we celebrate our stitching, embroidery, textile art highlights from 2019. Susan Weeks, as the host of this popular textile art podcast, shares some lovely stories and highlights sent in by listeners from around the world. We hear from some previous guests, from new listeners, from ...

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CarolAnn J Allan: Loving Shibori and Slow Stitch

Stitchery Stories - December 11, 2019 19:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
This week CarolAnn J Allan is our lovely guest on Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. CarolAnn loves slow stitching, taking the time to enjoy the process, and she particularly loves shibori and indigo dyeing. We chat about her interesting journey into being a textile artist, and the communi...

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Stitchery Stories Live Part Two at Podcast Social Club

Stitchery Stories - December 04, 2019 14:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
This is PART TWO of the Stitchery Stories LIVE recording at the Podcast Social Club! Please listen to PART ONE before listening to this - it won't make any sense if you haven't heard Part One! This is the second half of the live recording. It was a lot of fun chatting with my two lovely gu...

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Stitchery Stories Live at Podcast Social Club (part 1)

Stitchery Stories - November 27, 2019 16:42 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Stitchery Stories LIVE at the Podcast Social Club! This is the first half of the live recording. It was a lot of fun chatting with my two lovely guests, CarolAnn J Allan and Mary-Ann Toop about fabric and threads, creativity and our well-being. It was also a step out of collective comfort zo...

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Lynn Comley : Textile Artist Up And Down Dale

Stitchery Stories - November 13, 2019 19:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Lynn Comley is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. Lynn works under the brand name of Up And Down Dale and the name gives us a clue as to the source of her artistic inspiration... the landscape around her! Lynn has recently relocated from the Derbyshire Peak District ...

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Tori Riley: Batik Inspiration

Stitchery Stories - October 30, 2019 11:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Passionate about Batik, Tori Riley is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast. Tori shares her story of being inspired by Batik as a young child living in Java, and how her love of it has led her to running workshops and talks, whilst being a busy mum of four! Susan Weeks chats with T...

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Mary-Ann Toop: Bringing Fabric Sculptures To Life

Stitchery Stories - October 16, 2019 09:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratings
Fabric sculpture artist Mary-Ann Toop is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast. Mary-Ann shares her story of leaving her civil engineering career, battling depression and starting her fascinating creative journey. Mary-Ann is determined to make her soft fabric sculptures move - and is...

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