Niamh O’Connor – Contemporary Embroidery & Textile Art Inspiration

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 Niamh O'Connor, the Head Honcho of Urban Threads, who have been sharing masterful machine embroidery in our Gear Threads column for years! Hi Niamh! Name: Niamh O'Connor Location: Minnesota, USA Specialism: Evil genius of machine embroidery Urban Threads - Hawk Scarf Favourite Colour: Amethyst Favourite Film: National Treasure (judge me all you want!) Favourite Band: Alt-J Urban Threads - Evenfall Shoes Favourite Book: Currently, the Martian Tell us a joke: Q: What's a pirates favorite letter? A: Ay, ye may think it be RRRR but actually it be the C. A little piece of wisdom if you please: Never thread the needle with the machine running, no matter how much coffee you've had. Urban Threads' Crane Wife It would be remiss of us not to send out big love to Karline at Urban Threads, the Nightwing to Niamh's Batman. These two have brought us some great posts over the past few years and here's three of our favourites! PaleGray Labs Embroidermation Marjolein Starreveld's Machine Embroidered Portraits Birgitte Busk ________________________ Gear Threads is brought to you from the offbeat gals at Urban Threads. Created by illustrator Niamh O'Connor, Urban Threads is revolutionizing machine embroidery one edgy, elegant, innovative, and/or offbeat design at a time. Discover the future of digital stitchery at www.urbanthreads.com.