Stitchery Stories Podcast
1) Owen Kelly: A Creative Storyteller With Distinctive Hand Stitched Style
In this episode, host Susan Weeks sits down with Owen Kelly, a fifth-generation stitcher with over 50 years of experience. Working from his remote home on the SW coast of Ireland, and inspired by the ...Show More
2) Sally McCollin: Inspiring Creativity Through Textiles, Teaching and Online Embroidery Courses
In this Stitchery Stories episode, host Susan Weeks chats with Sally McCollin, a textile artist, designer, and educator with a fascinating career spanning publishing, design, and teaching. From early ...Show More
3) Elizabeth Ashdown: Passementerie Artist Transforming An Endangered Craft
Elizabeth Ashdown is one of only 4 hand Passementerie artists working in the UK today. She combines traditional and endangered craft skills with a contemporary aesthetic to create innovative passement...Show More
4) Ailish Henderson: Bringing Fine Art Narrative Textiles To Life
Ailish Henderson is a fine art textile artist, particularly known for her fine art stitched collage works, which focus on capturing a fleeting moment, telling the story with mixed media, paint, stitch...Show More
5) Elnaz Yazdani : Contemporary Textile Art With Unusual Materials
Elnaz Yazdani creates vibrant contemporary textile art using rather unusual materials. Look closely for nails, springs, tubes, and all sorts from scrap stores. Elnaz loves working with community group...Show More
6) Jack Roberts: Freehand Machine Embroidery Fine Artist
Dr. Jack Roberts, also known as JPR Stitch, is a fine artist specializing in freehand machine embroidery, creating stunning abstract shapes from dense, intricate webs of stitches. His art reflects the...Show More
7) Alison Holt: Freehand Machine Embroidery Landscapes
Alison Holt is a contemporary textile artist, teacher and author who combines silk painting and freehand machine embroidery to create beautiful landscapes and glimpses of the natural world. Alison sh...Show More
8) Caroline Hyde-Brown : Weaving Plant Material Into Textile Art
Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career. Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinati...Show More
9) Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business
Hannah 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 Kitc...Show More
10) Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey
Textile 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 '...Show More
Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey
1:07:54 | Sep 15th, 2023