Hayley Mills-Styles: Thread Artist Who Loves Digital Embroidery

Today on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, Hayley Mills-Styles shares her life in fabric & thread. Hayley describes herself as a thread artist, and has had a very busy year so far culminating in two solo exhibitions. Whilst she has a love for backstitch, we have a great chat about her love of digital embroidery.

Susan Weeks chats with Hayley about:

• A busy year preparing for exhibitions
• The joy of working collaboratively, as well as visiting museums for research
• Loving libraries and all those "real books"
• Connecting people, places and materials
• Unpicking things as a curious child
• How much do we love backstitch?
• Discovering the world of digital embroidery
• An obsession with pin cushions
• The excitement of unusual objects as embroidery inspiration
• Writing about Narwhals!
• The roller-coaster of freelance creative businesses
• Who has 37 types of 'post-it notes'?
• and much more...

For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Hayley's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hayleymillsstyles

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Visit: Whitby Museum https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/

Visit: Love Arts Festival (Leeds) http://www.loveartsleeds.co.uk/