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link to What Stitches Are Used For Appliqué?

What Stitches Are Used For Appliqué?

In this column we discuss the types of stitches used for applique. It depends if you are creating your appliqué piece by hand or machine. The two most popular machine appliqué stitches are the...

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Artist Takeover: Jessie Chorley

This issue I have decided to let textile artist Jessie Chorley take over my column's content. Producing ranges of timeless textile pieces, whimsical in nature, yet often with practical use. She...

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link to Take Five – Q&A with Anne Kelly

Take Five – Q&A with Anne Kelly

Textile artist Anne Kelly has just released a wonderful new book: Textile Travels (check out our recent review here). We thought that this would be the ideal time to catch up with her and dig a...

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link to What are the different types of appliqué?

What are the different types of appliqué?

Whether you are a textile beginner or a well practiced embroiderer, you will have heard the term appliqué. If you were wondering what the different types of appliqué are, I have the...

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The Textile Museum Tilburg

Recently I got the chance to hop across to Tiburg, Netherlands to visit The Textile Museum in the city to discover some awesome work. Historically Tilburg was well known within the Textile world,...

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Thread: Contemporary Textiles

The exhibition "Thread: Contemporary Textiles" was at Rheged in Penrith, Cumbria in 2019. Ailish Henderson reviews the show and shares the work of several needlework artists including Adam...

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