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,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Oct 28, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
I actually ummed and ahhed about recording this episode, but to me, there’s nothing more exquisite than receiving a gift that’s been especially made for you. In an age of mass-produced consumerism, making a Christmas gift for someone you love or admire is...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Oct 13, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
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...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Sep 28, 2024 | Podcast Episodes
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...
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