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Gear Threads – Miyuki Sakai’s Everyday Marvels

There's something enchanting about Miyuki Sakai's freestyle machine embroidery illustrations. With a delicate balance of realism and whimsy, her work brings a vivid new perspective to everyday...

Gear Threads – Harriet Popham’s Custom Machine Embroidery

Harriet Popham is a third year student studying surface pattern design in Swansea. She specializes in architecture and portraiture in print and stitch. She makes amazing freestyle machine embroidery...

Gear Threads – Birgitte Busk

Got some serious eye candy for you today. Birgitte Busk is a textile artist in Denmark who creates freehand thread painting portraits, using an ordinary sewing machine and mad skills. Birgitte...

Gear Threads – Tara Seekamp

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. Seekamp,...

Gear Threads – Cindy Hickok

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 further, like the work of Cindy Hickok. Cindy creates these freestyle...

Gear Threads – Lauren Evatt Finley

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