Our stitchgasm focuses on Mary Carson a textile artist. She focuses on portraits and has been inspired by the artist Sue Stone. She likes to tell a story through her work and often uses her own family as inspiration as well as the history of the local area of America where she lives. Her work is hand stitched and painted.
Welcome to another Tooled Up column where we aim to give you reviews of fun products from all over the crafty world. Today we review the scrumptious Sweet ‘n Sharp Macaron from Clover.
Ian Berry is a UK based textile artist who coerces denim fabric to create mind blowing portraits and landscape studies that are incredibly realistic, exploring themes like American nostalgia and contemporary intimacy.
Jessie Chorley is a talented textile focused designer maker with the ability to juggle running a growing business and being a full time artist. She also often holds workshops and until recently was running an arts and crafts shop in London.
Meet Lillian Cellan-Jones, second-place winner, Student Textile Art category, in the 2020 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery. Lily’s winning butcher’s apron marries contrasts: repulsive with beautiful, harsh with delicate, brutal with feminine.
Welcome to another Tooled Up column where we aim to give you reviews of fun products from all over the crafty world. Today we review the Stitch Dome from Clover.
Through textiles you can spend some fun time together and really inspire your children to be creative. Cindy Trillo explains how.
Free Machine Embroidery, or freehand machine embroidery, is a type of sewing that allows you to draw with your sewing machine through drawing different shapes and profiles.
Written by a Swedish designer, Freestyle Embroidery on Wool has been first published in Sweden and then brought here to the UK. Derland the author gifts this book to her grandmother. The book references wool fabrics and threads, as well as those made from silk, linen and cotton – so very naturally biased. This publication is filled with unique ideas and will delight any embroiderer.
Rachel Ellenbogen is the second-place winner in the Student Fashion Category in the 2020 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery competition. She used recycled fabric and beads from second-hand jewelry and plastic bottles to stunning effect.
Jo Burgess reviews two types of punch needles from Milward. Whether you want traditional wooden or more modern plastic punch needles, we’ve got the information you need!
In this craft bible of colourful critters, Jessica Long guides us through skills via thirty embroidery based tutorials, which reveal all the wonders of creation – are you a cute bunny lover? Or maybe your prefer one of the wilder ones…well this book certainly covers all things fluffy and fur ridden! Just make sure that you have an embroidery hoop and cotton on hand…