Stitch Safari

In 2025, gloves are emerging as a prominent and versatile medium for artistic expression.  More and more artists are using them as repurposed items, or to explore their symbolism and narrative potential.

Join me as I explore the predictions from 2024 for embroidery trends in 2025. Are they correct? Do they tally with what embroiderers are creating now? Let’s find out together.

I continue to learn during research for the Stitch Safari Podcast, and it's wonderful, but embroidery is such an ancient craft that sometimes the information is just not there.  So where do we look? Art.  Because, in this instance, that's the only source left...

Myriad reasons to consider anatomical embroidery.

Recently I saw a post on social media questioning whether embroidery was outdated. The resounding answer is, of course, no - but why? The wiser question would be, why is embroidery enjoying a renaissance?  Hasn't it been around for eons? From what I can see, this is...

We’re all visual artists, so visually the space we work in has to be pleasing too.

Well, a very Happy New Year to all my Stitch Safari listeners. I hope 2025 fulfils your creative embroidery goals and that these episodes of Stitch Safari add to your embroidery knowledge, vocabulary, and inspiration, as does mine. So what better way to begin 2025...

As Christmas is around the corner, it's appropriate that this episode's focus is on food. Embroidered food - not a topic my mind normally ventures into, but it's surprisingly interesting and complex nonetheless and in some cases achieves a level of realism that's...

Why not give faces and figures a go?  These artists did and look where they are now.