
Nicola Elliott | Machine Embroidery
Ladies and gentlemen: please direct your attention to the fine freestyle machine embroidery of Nicola Elliott, aka Picturestitch. Based in Manchester, England, Nicola creates custom

Ladies and gentlemen: please direct your attention to the fine freestyle machine embroidery of Nicola Elliott, aka Picturestitch. Based in Manchester, England, Nicola creates custom

Louise Gardiner is a British artist and illustrator, and she has become well known for her world of weird and wonderful characters, and impressive machine embroidery skills. Her work is a combination of rhythmic drawing, intense and intricate free machine stitches, paints, appliqué and inks.

Bold, mythic, and uniquely Australian — the textile art of Tara Seekamp is something that will catch your attention with its rich color and detail, and stick in your mind long afterward.

Freestyle machine stitching can come in all kinds of styles, but I love it when I see an artist who takes their craft one step

Creating compelling machine-stitched images — whether through free machine embroidery or digitized stitching — takes the mind of a painter. For Georgia artist Lauren Evatt

Digitized machine embroidery is still a bit of a rarity in the art world, and finding emerging artists using it even less so. That’s why

It’s easy on a blog all about “contemporary embroidery” to only think of the present. However, revolutions in a creative field can come about long

One of the delights of being in the stock machine embroidery design biz is seeing crafters take those building blocks and create something extraordinary with

Welcome to another shiny edition of Gear Threads, where we explore the digital and mechanical side of modern embroidery. Today I wanted to share the

Anne Honeyman is a textile artist who creates her amazing thread sculptures using a free machine embroidery technique on soluble fabric. When the soluble stabilizer

It may not seem all that surprising to anyone quite familiar with the craft world, but geekdom and crafting frequently come together in glorious harmony.

Anja Rieger is the rare combination of an illustrator and digitizer, which results in some truly fabulous embroidery creations. Some of her work has been published