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Meet the Artist – Harriet Riddell

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful embroidery of Textile Performance Artist – Harriet Riddell. Filmed at Leith Hill Place in the UK.

What do a sewing machine and a pedal bike have in common? The answer is Harriet Riddell from In Stitch You

Join me for a day of stitch drawing with Free Style ‘Pedal Powered’ Stitcher, Harriet. Watch and be amazed as she ‘draws with the needle’ on her sewing machine. Harriet travels the world with her sewing machine & bicycle to create observational embroideries, documenting life in stitch.

You can see some of Harriet’s Free Style Stitchery in a previous post from Art in Action 2014.

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Meet the Artist – Tabitha Aimee Buckley

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful embroidery and beadwork of Tabitha Aimee Buckley.

How does the landscape inspire embroidery art?
Tabitha Aimee Buckley – a recent Textile Design Graduate from Falmouth University – shares how she creates one of her iconic handmade buttons, inspired by the rugged Cornish landscape. Tabitha was a recipient of an Embroiderers’ Guild Graduate Award 2019/20. She started stitching as an Embroiderers’ Guild Young Embroiderer at the age of 10.

Filmed at Knitting & Stitching Show 2019.

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Meet the Artist – Catriona Charlton

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful Costume Design & Embroidery of Catriona Charlton. Filmed at Knitting & Stitching Show 2019.

Catriona explains how she designs & creates her detailed costumes for film & TV. She shares the process she utilised to develop the costume for ‘Brimstone’ – a character from ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ by Laini Taylor – she shares her samples which include a variety of needlework techniques such as digital embroidery, hand & free-machine embroidery, crochet, smocking, goldwork & beading. Catriona received an Embroiderers’ Guild Graduate 2019 Award & exhibited at New Designers 2019 in London.