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.
Darren’s embroidery reflects his love of textiles and the visual qualities present in fabric and thread. He tells us that he uses applique and free machine embroidery to illustrate personal narratives or ideas, inspired by memorabilia or his collection of vintage ‘Stitchcraft’ knitting and embroidery magazines.
Nashville based mixed-media artist, Deeann Rieves powerfully combines realism and abstraction, working areas of loose free shapes and line with refined careful stitches and dynamic painting.
Meet Julie Heaton, 3rd-place winner in the Open Textile Art category of the 2019 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery competition. Her winning design, “A Couple on the Tube,” is a “fabric” of machine stitching that paints a portrait. It’s another Funk Files interview by Jen Funk Weber for Mr X Stitch!
all about fast food This month I’ve gathered some of the best fast food soft sculptures from around the world. I feel like junk food
Meet David Morrish, winner of the Wilcom Award for Digital Embroidery, Textile Art Category, in the 2019 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery competition. His winning design, “Natural Order of Things,” depicts the demise of the Yorkshire textile industry and artisan skills as a result of industrialization. It’s another Funk Files interview by Jen Funk Weber for Mr X Stitch!
Digitizing With Dimension Unfortunately, some new machine embroiderers start out expecting their machines to be ‘thread printers’ using embroidery as simply another option for transferring
The essential truth about machine embroidery is that there’s technically only one possible stitch. Your most amazing standard embroidery machine makes the same interlock stitch that any sewing machine has since the refined straight stitch machine.
Digitizing Detailed Designs Demystified Byzantine details, gradients, and tiny text can cause any digitizer to hesitate on a project. Complex art can evoke resistance or
Machine Embroidered Art – Painting the natural world with Needle and Thread Alison Holt Search press In this time of change, we have been gifted
Distortion in Digitizing In this post, we’re going to continue to tackle that scourge of all new digitizers, the distortion of the the on-screen design
Pull Compensation Continuing our ‘Digitizing 101’ theme, we’ll cover the most basic and yet most troublesome concept for budding digitizers – distortion. There is a