Stitchery Stories Susan Weeks

Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career.
Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. Combined with her purposeful art practice experience, Caroline shares plenty of wisdom on Stitchery Stories textile art podcast.
With so many inspiring aspects to Caroline's textile art career, in this episode of Stitchery Stories we chose to focus on some unique plant-based research projects that Caroline has been involved with over the last couple of years. Firstly, on a project focused on the Grass Pea plant. And secondly on a project based around extracting natural dyes from food waste. These were truly fascinating and highlight the innovative use of plant-based materials within Caroline's textile art.
Susan Weeks chats with Caroline Hyde-Brown about: 
Overwintering in her practice, her garden and her art. Combining foraged plant materials with textile art techniques Purposeful development of an art practice The importance of outreach and connections Her love of nature and plants and research Making paper with grass pea fibres Extracting natural dyes from food waste from UK & Malaysia Contrasting writing styles for academic writing & art book Writing her first book 'Forage & Stitch' A hard lesson in understanding a design brief & clear communication And plenty more besides! For this episode... View Links, information & Examples of Caroline's work at https://stitcherystories.com/carolinehydebrown
Visit: https://www.theartofembroidery.co.uk/
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Look: https://www.instagram.com/artistcaz/
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Laura Edgar: Atmospheric Coastal Scenes in Textile Art
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Hannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art.
 In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Hannah shares her story and we dive into what she describes as her transformational business year in 2023!
Susan Weeks chats with Hannah Thompson about:
Her love for textile art, quilting, crafting and creativity Family life and a career pushing textile creativity to the background Turning to textile art to deal with a challenging time Taking the leap into setting up Stitching Kitchen How her business has evolved Discovering a love of teaching and facilitating others to enjoy textile art Starting to host guest tutors Getting help within her business Pushing out of her comfort zone with an inspiring community arts project with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust and lots more too!  For this episode... View Links, information & Examples of Hannah's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hannahthompson
 Visit: https://stitchingkitchen.co.uk/
Like: https://www.facebook.com/stitchingkitchen
Look: https://www.instagram.com/stitchingkitchen/
Follow Susan Weeks for online course creation and online marketing stuff 
https://virtualityworks.com/ 
https://www.facebook.com/CraftyCourseProfitBooster
https://www.instagram.com/susan.l.weeks
LEARN HOW to turn your in-person classes into on-demand online money-makers with her FREE online course
https://virtualityworks.com/unlock-your-profits-in-7-steps/
Other Episodes featuring artists Hannah has booked for 2024:
Anne Kelly: Textile Art From Re-used Textile Treasures
https://stitcherystories.com/annekelly/
Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel
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Textile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career.
Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using modern materials and mixed media, there are plenty of exciting 'firsts' to celebrate with Holly!
We join Holly at the start of her first art exhibition. She shares her preparation and hopes from the show. We chat about her very interesting inspirations for her emerging body of work, and how she is developing her own 'take' on stumpwork, scaling it up, and using modern materials and mixed media to produce larger pieces, faster, yet still using hand embroidery.
Susan Weeks chats with Holly about:
'There's always one more thing!' How she got started on her new artist career The importance of getting in front of 'new eyes' Her preparations for her first 'booth show' The fascinating stories of the 'hidden women' behind historical Mardi Gras float designs The impacts of flooding & climate change on her region Developing 'sneaky stumpwork' techniques Creating her own unique textile art style and 'voice' Creating a body of work, using series and collections What's next after the show? For this episode...
View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Holly's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hollyjackson
Visit: https://flossinginthemoonlight.com/
Look: https://www.instagram.com/flossinginthemoonlight/
 
Other places & people we mentioned: 
Chesapeake bay, USA
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay
Tulane University Carnival Collection https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p15140coll40
Jenny Adin-Christie
https://jennyadin-christieembroidery.com/
 
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Textile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today!
She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her creative business to focus on teaching people around the world through her online courses and her unique membership The No-Rules Textiles Society.
Jayne was a guest here back in 2018 and gives a quick update as to where she was and what challenges she was facing back then.
And then we dive into the details of how she created her courses, and the practicalities of running her creative membership. The financial benefits and the fabulous network of new friendships she has developed online. 
For this episode...
View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Jaynes's creative samples at https://stitcherystories.com/jayneemerson2
Visit: https://jayneemerson.co.uk/
Look: https://www.instagram.com/jayneemersontextiles/
Like: https://www.facebook.com/JayneEmersonTextileDesign
 
Other places & people we mentioned:
 Elizabeth Ashdown (Passementerie)
 https://elizabethashdown.co.uk/
 
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 https://stitcherystories.com/nikkiparmenter/
 

Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stitch hand embroidery kits of the beautiful Cornish coast.
For the last 10 years, Emma has grown her cross stitch kit business from a therapeutic hobby as she recovered from illness, to a thriving creative business, shop & studio based in St Austell Town, Cornwall.
With the beautiful Cornish coast as her never-ending inspiration, with the desire to make bright colourful kits, Emma shares her journey from her first design made with 20p cross stitch software.
We peek into the 'nuts and bolts' of kit design and production and Emma kindly shares some hard-won lessons along the way!
Her mantra?
To provide kits so that people can stitch things that make them feel good.
Susan Weeks chats with Emma Horan about:
painting & stitching as therapy whilst on sick leave from her corporate job her creative inspirations enjoying her studio and shop the steps from inspiration to kit for sale getting help and batch production dealing with counterfeiters colouring books? the beautiful and inspiring Cornish coast For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Emma's cross stitch kits at https://stitcherystories.com/emmahoran
Visit: https://www.emmalouiseartstitch.co.uk/
Look: https://www.instagram.com/Emmalouiseartstitch/
Like: https://www.facebook.com/Emmalouiseartstitch/
Tweet https://twitter.com/emmalouiseart
 
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Lottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over the last 5 years. With a love of 'grid-based' hand embroidery, Lottie focuses on cross-stitch, blackwork and surface embroidery kits.
She is keen to try new things in her business and will often dive into the deep-end of something, figure it out as she goes, then decide if it is a direction that is suitable for her business and her self. 
That's the magic about running our own business.... WE GET TO CHOOSE what we do and how it works for US.
This is a fabulous and very inspiring story, and I'm so pleased I spotted Lottie's colourful blackwork embroidery on Instagram, and never imagined the story that would be revealed! 
Susan Weeks chats with Lottie about:
Starting with hand embroidery commissions Quickly evolving into designs & kits Running her first stall ever at a high profile handmade event Designing her kits Encouraging and inspiring stitchers to have a go Shaping her business to suit her personality and lifestyle and so much more! For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Lottie's art at https://stitcherystories.com/lottiecockell
Visit: https://purpleroseembroidery.com/
Look:  https://www.instagram.com/purpleroseembroidery
Like:  https://www.facebook.com/purpleroseembroidery
Also PurpleRoseEmbroidery on:
TikTok, Youtube, Pinterest
Directory of all the things: 
https://bio.site/purpleroseembroidery
 
Other places & people we mentioned:
Kirstie Allsopp Handmade Fair
Hochanda / Create & Craft

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