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The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Sally Hewitt

Sally Hewitt is a textile artist from Kent. She graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 2003 and has exhibited her work in various venues in the South and South East.

Sally explains her work: “My practice centres on bodies, ideas of beauty and ugliness and the conventions
that determine which is seen as which. My medium is mainly stitching and embroidery. I like the discordance between the medium and the content.

“I am interested in how we see things, how we interpret what we see and how my way of representing bodies might affect how that which is represented is seen – is it seen as ugly, beautiful or just funny? Or none of those things?”

I find Sally’s work fascinating. She recreates elements of the body that are replete with insecurities, but by isolating them in hoops, they become tactile objects of desire. They are removed from the socio-political context that shapes our view of them, and we have a chance to consider them from an aesthetic perspective. I think they’re absorbing and they make me want to reach out and touch them.

Sally’s technique in these pieces is superb – the elegance of the pieces belies the technicality of their construction, and it’s clear that Sally is an adept crafter.

You can see more of Sally’s work on her website – I’m genuinely excited to see what she does next.

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The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge is brought to you in association with Embroidery As Art, the inspirational stitched art blog from the legendary Jenny Hart.

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Stitchgasm! – Mehndi Embroidery by Darkmoonlady2002

by Beefranck

Mehndi and embroidery seem to be made for each other.

See what I mean?

See more beautiful stuff from Darkmoonlady2002 at her flickr photostream.

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Mark Your Calendars! September 3rd is Stitch in Public Day!

by Beefranck

Stitching in public places is something that is near and dear to our hearts here at Mr X Stitch. Mr X himself started stitching because he needed something to keep him occupied on a long plane trip, and he often stitches on the train when commuting back and forth to London, as you can see here.

And while I’m not a huge fan of having my picture taken, even I got in on the action recently at a local coffee shop.

So of course we just HAVE to spread the word about Stitch in Public Day, which is happening this Friday, September 3rd! *Cheers! Fanfare!*

We’re both going to stitch in public that day, and we’d love it if you would, too. We even created a new Flickr group just for pictures of stitching in public. There’s already some pretty awesome shots in there already – stitching on the train, on the beach, on a cruise ship, at a concert – but we’d love to have more! Join us!

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Stitchgasm! – thesinistergiraffe’s newspaper headlines

by Mr X Stitch

I’ll come out and say it. I don’t care much for the Daily Mail newspaper – it promotes fear and loathing.

So I was chuffed to bits when Lori sent me information about thesinistergiraffe’s stitched Daily Mail headlines. Taken out of their normal context, you can see the kind of stupid nonsense that people have to put up with here. You can buy these little beauties at tsg’s etsy store.

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