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Goldwork artist Hanny Newton found herself working on her biggest-ever commission for most of 2020. It was a goldwork forest measuring 2.5 meters tall, and it contained about a kilogram of copper thread and over 500 hours of stitching.
She wondered if months of solid stitching would test her love of goldwork, but she passed her own test with flying colours. It also encouraged her to push further within her own practice. But how does an artist top such exquisite excellence?...

Linda F. Martin found her artistic voice through textile collage, but it took a long while to discover her gift for fiber art. In fact, it was only after her retirement that she became fascinated by collage and quilting as a means of expression. She...

Photographs allow us to capture a moment that would otherwise be lost – and fabric and thread offer a way of preserving that moment as textile art. Originally trained as a photographer, when Joetta Maue snapped a quick image of her young children sleeping...

Welcome to your third free workshop of the Community Stitch Challenge 2021 with embroidery artist Jennifer Collier.
Back in March 2020, when countries all over the world were being plunged into lockdowns for the first time, we launched the Community Stitch Challenge as a way of reaching out to stitchers all over the world. You responded so positively to the original...