Stitch Safari

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.

How often do embroiderers think of perspective? Well, in the case of the following embroidery artists, the answer would have to be, often, because they take their work to an aerial perspective depicting embroidered scenes one does not often think about or get to see....

There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy, And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly; It is something like a beetle, and a little like a bee, But nothing like a wooly grub that climbs upon a tree. Its name is quite a hard one, but you'll learn...

Stitch Safari listeners, why not share your Christmas stitching projects on the Stitch Safari Facebook page? 

This episode pays tribute to an embroidery artist who, from a very young age, was devoted to capturing and recording the beauty and complexity of nature, learning to note intricate details that would later lay a foundation for her work in textiles. This Dutch-born...

This is a follow-up to the last episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, Masters of Our Machines, and focuses on books offering inspiration, technique, and thoughts on the artistry of machine embroidery today. In the vast sea that makes up the book world which are the...

'If I can draw it, I can stitch it' is my mantra. I'm talking about using a sewing machine as a mark-making, art and design tool to create lines, shapes, and patterns using a needle and thread, often with the feed dogs disengaged, forming personal narratives and...