Gear Threads – Niamh O’Connor
We’ve some fantastic columns on Mr X Stitch and we wanted to celebrate the authors who share their love of needlecraft with you. This time it’s
We’ve some fantastic columns on Mr X Stitch and we wanted to celebrate the authors who share their love of needlecraft with you. This time it’s
Digitizers of any vintage have likely generated piles of useful elements and files with corresponding notebooks bristling with ideas to keep them punching into old
Though I extol the freedom of expression that doing your own digitizing provides, not every embroiderer will become a digitizer. Whether due to a lack
Fabulous textile artist Leisa Rich has been featured on Mr X Stitch before, primarily for her phenomenal art in 3D textiles, but she just had
One of the unsung qualities of the proficient embroidery digitizer is the ability to properly ‘path’ designs. Pathing refers to controlling the journey of the
Somewhere outside of Reno, Cody McElroy, better known to the interwebs as Dirty Needle Embroidery, is keeping the art of freemotion embroidery alive. From classic
There’s a certain haunting quality to the machine embroidery work of artist Marjolein Starreveld. Faces emerge as if from a fog, distorted in ways that
Density – as it refers to machine embroidery, density is essentially a measure of the space between parallel stitches or lines of stitching. It can
This one’s a bit outside of our usual machine embroidery realm here at Gear Threads. But it involves embroidery and machines, threads and gears, and
Machine embroidery takes me way back to my degree when I had access to beautiful Irish sewing machines. Many days were spent busting out some
In the world of contemporary textile artists, the medium of thread is naturally less startling in the art world than it used to be, but even the canvas
I was struck the other day by this bit from Mr X’s recent TEDx talk: I’m not bothered what technology you use to become an