The Stitch Safari Podcast

Dec 08 2024 119 ep. 21 mins 10
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Australian Textile Artist, Cathy Jack Coupland hosts this brand-new fortnightly safari-inspired podcast, journeying into the beguiling world of stitch, sewing, and embroidery, with insights into its history, use, and innovations. Join this unique expedition and thread your way into the amazing and irresistible world of needle and thread. Learn more about Cathy's work with needle and thread at cathyjackcoupland.com

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Embroidered Faces and Figures

Dec 08 2024 21 mins  
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-f

Embroidered Aerial Views

Nov 26 2024 16 mins  
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:

Beetles, Butterflies and Insectes in Embroidery

Nov 10 2024 18 mins  
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 mus

Embroidered Christmas Treasures

Oct 27 2024 21 mins  
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

Australian Textile Artist Annemieke Mein

Oct 12 2024 18 mins  
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/

Machine Embroidery - Book Reviews

Sep 27 2024 15 mins  
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/

Masters of Our Machines

Sep 14 2024 23 mins  
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://

Master Embroiderers - Alice Kettle and Salley Mavor

Aug 31 2024 19 mins  
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.

Steampunk and Textile Art

Aug 17 2024 20 mins  
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/

Books Using Stitch, Textile or Fibre Imagery

Aug 03 2024 15 mins  
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/