The Stitch Safari Podcast
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
Episodes
127 episodes
The Sartorial Embroidered Glove
In 2025, gloves are emerging as a prominent and versatile medium for artistic expression. More and more artists are using them as repurposed items, or to explore their symbolism and narrative potential. Join me as I briefly journey ...
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2025 Embroidery Trends - Are They Here Or Not?
Join me as I explore the predictions from 2024 for embroidery trends in 2025. Are they correct? Do they tally with what embroiderers are creating now? Let's find out together.Show Notes:
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The Wonderful World of Embroidery Hoops and Frames
Hoops can be used to maintain tension while stitching but also to display the finished work, as I'm doing with my 100 Stitched Circles. En masse, they make a great installation. They can be hung from the ceiling or used for 3D embro...
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Anatomical Embroidery
Join me on this examination and inspection of anatomic embroidery as I dissect, audit and review the whys and wherefores along with the artistic evaluation and interpretation of this genre of embroidery. It's unique, it's educative, and it may ...
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Why Is Embroidery Popular?
Recently I saw a post on social media questioning whether embroidery was outdated. The resounding answer is, of course, no - but why? The wiser question would be, why is embroidery enjoying a renaissance? Hasn't it been around for eons? W...
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Turn Your Sewing Room from Drab to Delicious
We've all been there, haven't we? In stressful times it's too easy to make the sewing room a dumping ground for works-in-progress and newly acquired items. We're all visual artists, so visually the space we work in has to be pleasing too,...
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Embroidery Journalling
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 amazi...
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Embroidered Food
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 ta...
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18:36
Embroidered Faces and Figures
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 an...
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Embroidered Aerial Views
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 oft...
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Beetles, Butterflies and Insectes in Embroidery
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 increasin...
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Embroidered Christmas Treasures
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 th...
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Australian Textile Artist Annemieke Mein
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 texti...
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Machine Embroidery - Book Reviews
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://stitchsafa...
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Masters of Our Machines
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 p...
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Master Embroiderers - Alice Kettle and Salley Mavor
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 narra...
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Steampunk and Textile Art
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 touc...
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Books Using Stitch, Textile or Fibre Imagery
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:
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Videos Recreating Costume and Embroidery
In this episode, I review three YouTube videos that recreate historical costumes and embroidery, two with input from Hand and Lock and The Royal School of Needlework, the third is presented by a fashion historian.Show Notes:
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Stitch and Textiles in Biennale Art - Two Artists
The artworks featured in this episode are exemplars that thread is resilient and unifying, connecting heritage with painful memories and histories that can and have become the voice of the abused and the marginalised.Show notes here: <...
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Collaborative Embroidery Projects
Link a worldwide group of collaborative embroiderers to see the true power of stitch to connect and depict. This episode highlights three collaborative embroidery projects driven by women for women.Show notes:
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Book Reviews - From My Library #1
I've chosen three books published at different times - 1980, 1994, and 2013 giving scope to all those ideas just waiting to be released into new traditional or innovative work, because I believe ‘you need to look back to move forward’.Show ...
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Critiquing Your Art
Constructive feedback for your artwork is hard. Do you self-critique or rely on the opinions of others? It takes strength, discipline and courage to be an artist and to learn to trust our inner selves to assess our work.Show ...
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