This bountiful aspect of the natural world offers such scope for variety, colour, shape, and pattern it's hard to overlook it. Vital to the world's ecosystems and sustainable food production, they are also incredibly beautiful and are increasingly used as subjects for embroidery.
Join me as I introduce five embroidery artists who work their magic using the insect world as their muse.
Show Notes here: https://stitchsafari.com/beetles-butterfl…ts-in-embroidery/

In this episode, I dip into some Yuletide bliss offering suggestions to make ourselves a Merry Little Christmas or a Winter Wonderland of creativity and love. This pre-Christmas countdown is really about slowing down and thinking about the people in our lives we love and treasure - the people who would be delighted to receive a thoughtful, useful or completely kitch hand-made gift from us.

This episode pays tribute to an embroidery artist who, from a very young age, was devoted to capturing and recording the beauty and complexity of nature, learning to note intricate details that would later lay a foundation for her work in textiles.
Show notes here: https://stitchsafari.com/australian-textile-artist-annemieke-mein/

This is a follow-up to the previous episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, Masters of Our Machines, and focuses on books offering inspiration, technique, and thoughts on the artistry of machine embroidery today.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/machine-embroidery-book-reviews/

The sewing machine becomes an extension of ourselves and a means of describing the world around us. It can produce many marks and qualities to express artistic vision and perceptions, including colour, texture, dimension and pattern—just as a painter works with brushstrokes to create line, shape, and movement, our machines become a design and mark-making tool.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/masters-of-our-machines/

What a privilege to introduce two inspiring embroidery artists. Whether or not you like machine embroidery or small dolls, these two artists are worth studying for their amazing use of technique and how they apply that to create wonderful narratives - they bring ingenuity, inventiveness, flair and finesse to their art.

Emanating vintage vibes the fascinating, exciting, and inspiring genre of Steampunk, an off-shoot of science fiction is the perfect inspiration for a new body of textile and embroidered art - think past, present and future - all with a touch of mystery, adventure and romance.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/steampunk-and-textile-art/

This episode covers the vastly underrated and underused area of textiles, embroidery and fibre used to create imagery for children's books. It's one we should all be looking at a little more closely.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/books-using-stit…or-fibre-imagery/