Stitchery Stories

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

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, des

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

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 w

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 ar

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 love

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

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

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

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

Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel

Textile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today! She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her creative business to focus o

Emma Horan: Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit Designer

Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stitch hand embroidery kits of the

Lottie Cockell : Growing Her Creative Business From Hand Embroidery

Lottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over the last 5 years. With a love

Prism Textiles Group: behind the scenes of their annual textile art exhibition

Prism Textile Group members Hayley Mills-Styles and Maria Walker share behind-the-scenes challenges of helping to organise an annual textile art exhibition which features

Sarah Gwyer : Contemporary Embroidery Beaded Pop Art

Today I explore hand embroidered and beaded pop art with contemporary pop art textile artist Sarah Gwyer. We talk about her magpie-like 'obsession' with colourful beads

Vanessa Marr: Domestic Dusters: Embroidery On Women And Domesticity

Back in 2014, textile artist, academic & designer Vanessa Marr posed the question: Women & Domesticity - What's Your Perspective? And invited those thoughts to be emb

Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project

Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress. It's a

Merrilyn Heazlewood : Creative Counted Canvaswork Embroidery

Embroidery artist Merrilyn Heazlewood shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She takes us on a journey through her interesting

Stitchery Stories Listeners Creative Joy Highlights 2022

A cheerful & inspiring episode as global listeners of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast share their stories of creative joy from 2022, and shoutout those 'joy bringer

Elizabeth Griffiths : Using hand embroidery for Portrait Artist Of The Year competition

Elizabeth Griffiths is a mixed media artist using hand embroidery, lino print-making, inks and watercolours to explore a range of themes. She shares the uplifting exper