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Stitchery Stories

Susan Weeks

Stitchery Stories... Where textile artists share their life in fabric & thread. Embroidery. Textile Art. Inspiration, Techniques, Disasters & Delights. Join embroidery enthusiast & textile a...

Episodes

20 of 136 episodes

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...

45:01Apr 3, 2025

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 c...

36:48Feb 5, 2025

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...

37:16Nov 21, 2024

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 fleet...

34:38Oct 9, 2024

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...

50:10Oct 4, 2024

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...

46:20Sep 10, 2024

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...

58:37Jun 27, 2024

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 beauti...

49:33May 25, 2024

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 ups...

01:16:26Dec 12, 2023

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 mode...

01:07:54Sep 15, 2023

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...

59:54Aug 3, 2023

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 stit...

41:24May 24, 2023

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...

01:03:44Apr 21, 2023

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...

59:09Apr 7, 2023

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 'obs...

55:04Mar 15, 2023

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 invite...

01:00:02Feb 24, 2023

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...

50:52Feb 9, 2023

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 jo...

48:15Jan 20, 2023

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, a...

43:37Dec 29, 2022

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. Sh...

39:08Dec 9, 2022