Latest Handstitchery Podcast Episodes
Tori Riley: Batik Inspiration
Stitchery Stories - October 30, 2019 11:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsPassionate 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...
Mary-Ann Toop: Bringing Fabric Sculptures To Life
Stitchery Stories - October 16, 2019 09:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsFabric 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...
Tracey Coverley: Textile Artist
Stitchery Stories - October 02, 2019 10:27 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, textile artist Tracey Coverley shares her story of leaving the railway industry and turning her fine art skills into creating textile art portraits of iconic figures from music and film. She works under her brand, "Handmade In Horwich End". ...
Diane Gaffney: Trader In South East Asian Textiles
Stitchery Stories - September 18, 2019 12:39 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories podcast, Diane Gaffney shares her fascinating story of developing a well-established business based around her love of travel. Diane and her husband Jim, are the founders of Textile Traders. They have been buying and selling hand made textiles from south east Asia ...
SFSNAD: San Francisco School Of Needlework And Design
Stitchery Stories - September 04, 2019 11:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsSFSNAD: San Francisco School Of Needlework And Design Today on the Stitchery Stories podcast, the co-founders of SFSNAD, Ellice Sperber and Lucy Barter share their story of turning their chats into dreams and their dreams into reality as they established their embroidery school in San Francisc...
Susan Weeks: Celebrating Two years Of Stitchery Stories Textile Art & Embroidery Podcast
Stitchery Stories - July 17, 2019 15:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsPodcaster Susan Weeks celebrates that her embroidery and textile art podcast is two years old this week. Susan shares some of the backstory around her podcast and talks about her entertaining, inspiring and courageous guests. Of course plenty of thanks are in order and Susan also has some qu...
Amanda Cobbett: Realistic Embroidered Fungi and Lichen
Stitchery Stories - July 03, 2019 08:04 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile Artist Amanda Cobbett shares her life in fabric and threads. Amanda creates realistic 3-dimensional, papier-mâché and machine-embroidered sculptures of fungi and lichen and other hidden treasures of the woodland floor. From her studio in the Surrey Hills, Amanda is surrounded by inspir...
Sally Stone: Textile Artist Yarnstorming York
Stitchery Stories - June 12, 2019 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile artist Sally Stone shares her life in fabric & thread, and yarn. With her textile art, Sally works in both small and large scale. She creates colourful pieces of textile jewellery, finding a new lease of life and use for a selection of objects. And then of course there is her joy with Ex...
Janine Heschl: Textile Wildlife Art
Stitchery Stories - May 29, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile Wildlife Artist Janine Heschl shares her life in fabric and threads. Janine creates photo realistic portraits of animals using free-motion machine embroidery, and an exceptional eye for detail, light, colour and texture. And even more amazing, Janine is entirely self-taught. Along with...
Sarah Cross: Artist Using Textiles And Multi-media Techniques
Stitchery Stories - May 15, 2019 15:07 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile Artist Sarah Cross shares her life in fabric and threads. Having chosen teaching as her career path, Sarah has taught art based textiles and fine art in a variety of school for 20 years. However, she has continued to learn skills, experiment with techniques and create her own pieces grab...
Kathleen Laurel Sage: Shaping Machine Embroidery With Heat
Stitchery Stories - May 01, 2019 10:52 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsTextile Artist Kathleen Laurel Sage shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. Kathleen combines machine embroidery, using water soluble stabiliser and layering organza and meltable threads and acrylic felt to create her nature inspired pieces. She then melt...
Emma Broughton: Embroidered Boxes
Stitchery Stories - April 17, 2019 12:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsEmma Broughton shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast. Emma is a classically trained hand embroidery artist with a real passion for designing and making embroidered boxes. So much so that she is the author of a new book launching April 2019 simply called "...
Loetitia Gibier: Hand Embroidery Artist With A Passion For Design
Stitchery Stories - April 03, 2019 12:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsLoetitia Gibier shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast. Loetitia is French but has made the UK her home and is a hand embroidery artist, and tutor, who also designs kits for sale. Loetitia shares her fascinating story, and the good things that have happe...
Rie Wenham: Hand Embroidery Artist Who Loves Spiders
Stitchery Stories - March 20, 2019 13:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsRie Wenham shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast. Rie shares the various aspects of her creative career, and the story of why she loves to create beautiful spiders and snakes combining goldwork, crewelwork & stumpwork. Rie dislikes the waste behind 'fast ...
Danielle Balfoort: Developing Abstract Contemporary Hand embroidery
Stitchery Stories - March 06, 2019 12:29 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDanielle Balfoort shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. Danielle shares her steps on her journey as an embroidery entrepreneur. After being made redundant from her office job, Danielle decided to go for it and launch her dream of creating a business a...
Natalie Dupuis : Goldwork Embroidery Artist, Tutor & Designer
Stitchery Stories - February 20, 2019 15:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsNatalie Dupuis shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast. Natalie shares her determined steps from being a teacher of children to being a teacher of goldwork embroidery, and a designer of unique goldwork embroidery kits. Susan Weeks chats with Natalie about...
Clare Hunter: Banner Maker Writing The Threads Of Life
Stitchery Stories - February 06, 2019 11:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsClare Hunter shares her life in fabric & thread on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. Clare has run her own business for many years, with a strong emphasis on community textile art projects, and banner making. Clare is also the author of new book 'Threads of Life : A History of the Wor...
Laura Bray: Embroidery Artist & Creative Business Owner
Stitchery Stories - January 23, 2019 15:45 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories podcast, Laura Bray shares her life in fabric & thread. Laura has run her own business for many years, firstly as a business consultant, and currently enjoying her creative business built around embroidery, fabric and crafts. Laura shares plenty of great stories ...
Joe Mitchell: Tambour Embroidery & Haute Couture Embroidery
Stitchery Stories - January 15, 2019 15:02 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories podcast, Joe Mitchell Shares His Life In Fabric & Thread. Joe creates the most beautiful, sparkling beaded tambour embroidery using beads, silk ribbons, sequins and all manner of gorgeous things! Joe shares plenty of great stories around his love of tambour embro...
Tina Francis: Tapestry, Needlepoint, Canvaswork: Embroidery using wool & canvas
Stitchery Stories - January 09, 2019 12:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories podcast, Tina Francis Shares Her Life In Fabric & Thread. Based in Birmingham, Tina chats with Susan Weeks about creating her 2nd career based around her love of tapestry, bringing bargello back, and working on community stitch projects that bring people together. ...
Eleanor Pigman: Contemporary Bead Embroidery Artist
Stitchery Stories - January 02, 2019 19:37 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories podcast, Eleanor Pigman Shares Her Life In Fabric & Thread. Eleanor is a contemporary bead embroidery artists who creates vibrant portraits of marine life. She chats with Susan Weeks about how she rose to the challenge of using thousands of donated beads in her ...
Michelle Morgan: Hand Embroidery Artist
Stitchery Stories - December 12, 2018 15:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, my guest is Michelle Morgan, hand embroidery artist. Michelle shares her story with us how she discovered embroidery four years ago and how it has literally changed her life. Focusing on embroidery helped Michelle to change her...
Helen McCook: Artisan Hand Embroiderer
Stitchery Stories - December 05, 2018 12:35 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art and embroidery podcast, my guest is Helen McCook, an artisan hand embroiderer. Helen shares her story with us of purpose and direction as she realised that she wanted to create her career around her love of embroidery. Helen has worked on many high pr...
Rigged Thread: Contemporary Embroidery Inspired By Shibari
Stitchery Stories - November 28, 2018 13:48 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art and embroidery podcast, we have a subject for embroidery that you may find rather unusual, and intriguing. This episode also features our first guest from outside of the UK. My guest is Adrian Cronos, from the USA East Coast, who creates embroidery in...
Liz Burton: Corporate Fashion Designer
Stitchery Stories - November 21, 2018 12:33 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art and embroidery podcast, we have a different story and guest for you! My guest is Liz Burton, a corporate fashion designer, currently employed as Design Manager at Incorporatewear, a specialist corporate fashion and workwear company, based in Birmingham....
Sarah Rakestraw: Glorious Goldwork Supplies, Kits & Classes
Stitchery Stories - November 14, 2018 11:23 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories textile art and embroidery podcast, Sarah Rakestraw shares her story in fabric and gold threads! She is the founder and owner of Golden Hinde Goldwork, a specialist embroidery brand selling goldwork supplies, kits and also offering classes. Sarah shares how she s...
York Textile Artists: The Delights And Challenges Of Starting A Group
Stitchery Stories - October 31, 2018 18:38 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, two members of York Textile Artists share their story of forming a new group. The group was formed by uniting 8 textile artists around the city of York who had all exhibited at York Open Studios in April 2018. An early guest of...
Louise Gardiner: Contemporary Embroidery, Capes, Poufs, Scarves
Stitchery Stories - October 24, 2018 10:47 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, Louise Gardiner shares her life in fabric & thread. Louise specialises in contemporary embroidery, particularly complex machine embroidered applique, with great detail, plenty of beads and texture. Louise has recently worked ...
Alex Hall: Textile Artist & Tutor
Stitchery Stories - October 17, 2018 20:26 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAlex Hall: Textile Artist & Tutor Today on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, Alex Hall shares her life in fabric & thread. Alex is a textile artist who has recently transitioned from her 30 year primary school teaching career into the adventure of creating her own busin...
Anthea Godfrey: Embroidery Artist & Creative Leader
Stitchery Stories - October 11, 2018 10:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAnthea Godfrey: Embroidery Artist & Creative Leader Today on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, Anthea Godfrey shares her life in fabric & thread. Anthea is an embroidery artist with an outstanding career in teaching, leading and supporting embroidery and textile art. ...
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