The Stitch Safari Podcast

What better way to begin 2025 than with something gaining traction as a popular means of documenting life events, happenings, memorable moments or simply feelings - I'm talking about Embroidery Journalling.  Join me as I explore this amazing, relatively new embroidery community.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/embroidery-journalling/

Embroidered food is an unusual topic offering a surprisingly interesting and complex level of realism that's truly off the charts.
But the simple needle and thread are also used here to comment on consumerism, everyday life, and things we take for granted such as our daily bread or the simple pleasure of growing our own vegetables.
Each artist uses the art of embroidery in their own way, expressing the utter beauty of something we all see and use daily.

Stitch Safari listeners, whether faces or figures, embroidery, patchwork or quilting, these artists capture the synergy of humanity through a gesture or a look.  They do it with flair and vivacity giving personality to each and every stitch and thread colour and that's important because these faces and figures need to sing.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/embroidered-faces-and-figures/

How often do embroiderers think of perspective?  Well, in the case of the following embroidery artists, the answer would have to be, often, because they take their work to an aerial perspective depicting embroidered scenes one does not often think about or get to see.
Join me in this fascinating episode detailing the magical work of four amazing embroidery artists.
Show Notes:  https://stitchsafari.com/embroidered-aerial-views/

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.