Here are fifteen of our favourite machine embroidery artists for you to enjoy!
It’s pretty amazing what you can produce with the humble sewing machine; just drop those feed dogs and you can machine embroider all kinds of art.
We’ve got tons of instructional posts here on MrXStitch that will help you get to grips with this exciting technique and if you have questions that remained unanswered, feel free to ask us!
Click on the links in each post and you can read our review of their work!
Nike Schroeder
Nike Schroeder is a Los Angeles based artist who uses free machine embroidery to explore human experience and play at the edges of abstraction and surrealism.
Find Nike Schroeder on Instagram or visit her website.
Marloes Duyker
Marloes Duyker is a illustrator from Utrecht in the Netherlands, who specialises in fabricated illustrations creating with a sewing machine.
Find Marloes on Instagram or visit their website.
Rosie James
Rosie James is a textile artist from Rochester, England. She captures human nature using machine and hand embroidery, immortalising fleeting moments that might escape us otherwise; allowing us to stop and stare at a world we might have missed.
Find Rosie James on Instagram or visit their website.
Meredith Woolnough
Meredith Woolnough is a visual artist from New South Wales who uses free machine embroidery and soluble fabrics to create mesmerising organic-inspired sculptures that are as technically triumphant as they are visually beautiful.
Find Meredith Woolnough on Instagram or visit their website. If you want to find out more about Meredith, you can listen to our NeedleXChange interview!
Oliver Bliss
Oliver Bliss is a Worcester-based embroidery artist whose recent “SoftLad” series of large-scale machine stitched tapestries explores the difference between social media images and the reality of modern manhood.
Find Oliver Bliss on Instagram or visit their website.
Jessica Larson
Jessica Larson is a mixed media artist from Minnesota. Her machine embroidered art explores contemporary pressure on feminine norms, by reproducing classic icons with a subversive twist.
Find Jessica on Instagram or visit their website.
Paul Nosa
Paul Nosa is an artist from Tucson, Arizona. His pedal powered sewing machine allows him to create freestyle improvised embroideries on request – bleeding edge creativity!
Find Paul Nosa on Instagram or visit their website.
Stacy Chapman
Stacey Chapman is an embroidery artist from Margate, whose machine embroidered portraits capture the humanity in all her subjects with style and grace.
Find Stacey on Instagram or visit their website.
Jane Sanders
Jane Sanders is a textile artist from Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK whose machine stitched and applique portraits of pop icons are insanely impressive.
I had a fantastic NeedleXChange with Jane, that you can listen to here!
Find Jane on Instagram or visit their website.
Jose Romussi
Jose Romussi is an mixed media artist from Chile who fuses edgy machine embroidery with nostalgic photography to create eye-catching pieces of urgent urban art.
Find Jose Romussi on Instagram or visit their website.
Gillian Bates
Gillian Bates is an artist from Eastbourne, UK, who uses machine embroidery to capture intimate memories of seaside Britain, presenting a timeless catalogue of understated vernaculars.
Find Gillian Bates on Instagram or visit their website.
Kathryn Harmer Fox
Kathryn Harmer Fox is a mixed media artist from South Africa whose free machine embroidery creates stunning portraits of profound figures.
Find Kathryn on Instagram or visit their website.
Kirsty Whitlock
Kirsty Whitlock is a Leicester-based textile artist whose mixed media work deconstructs newspapers, carrier bags and discarded items to make political statements.
Find Kirsty on Instagram or visit their website.
Alicia Ross
Alicia Ross is a mixed media artist from Cleveland, Ohio. She takes cross stitch and electrifies it with large scale, exotically charged machine stitched pieces.
Find Alicia Ross on Instagram or visit their website.
Who is your favourite machine embroidery artist?
If that selection doesn’t have you itching for some stitching, then you can’t say we didn’t try!
If you are using a sewing machine to create your art, we’d love to hear from you, so be sure to get in touch!
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This is free machine embroidery and if you want to find out more about it, check out our dedicated post!
