by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 2, 2025 | Podcast Episodes
This episode is highly topical. After Christmas, I looked at my sewing room and realised how drab and lacklustre it looked, not to mention how inefficient it was. Every day I stitch, so this area needs to be appealing, vibrant, efficient and safe. I also need to...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 19, 2025 | Podcast Episodes
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...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Dec 23, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
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...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Dec 9, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
I love seeing faces and figures used in embroidery. They add emotion, whimsy and personality to the work, things that aren’t easy to capture. But as much as I find working with faces and figures difficult, so many embroidery artists love working with them...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Nov 26, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
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....
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Nov 10, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
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,...
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