textile artist

Title: What I Miss
Sub Title: Swimming In Stories
Episode: P057
START: April 03, 2023
ENDS: April 16, 2023
Length:  28'' mins
Narrator Veda Hille
Host/Producer: Ingrid Rose

Join Ingrid Rose and Veda Hille in celebrating the remarkable life of Veda's mother Rosanna Hille, as revealed in her recently self-published memoir, Swimming in Stories, The River of My Life.

Rosanna Hille's memoir looks back on a life brimful of creativity and adventure. It begins with family history, postwar childhood in Denmark, emigration to Canada, coming of age in a Danish Quaker school, the turbulent 1960s, and meeting her future husband. Then she joins a spiritual group in search of a different kind of life. Raising her children in a rural community, she begins to explore her creativity as a textile artist. 

For many people this would be the main story, not for Rosanna Hille. Once her children are grown she embarks on a career in community development. As the chair of Susila Dharma International, a humanitarian, grass-roots inspired NGO that supports community development projects, Rosanna literally travels the globe from rural tribal villages to meetings at the United Nations over her long career.

Now in her seventies, and suffering from Parkinson's, Rosanna has immersed herself in the writing she always wished to pursue and never found time for. Despite her illness, she continues revelling in her indomitable life.

What I Miss, the last chapter of Swimming in Stories, finds Rosanna in her garden at home in Vancouver, contemplating a life of questions, service, connection, and love. It is read by Rosanna's daughter, Veda Hille, a well known Vancouver musician, composer and song-writer.

You can order Swimming in Stories as print or E-Book on Veda Hille's website here.

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Recently I have fallen in love with small independent creators doing dope things. Kara is one of those artist. Her discipline focuses on creating wearable knitted and crocheted items!

Kara's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbykaraleez/

Kara's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/artbykaraleez?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=f7d723df-0fc9-4a2e-90fd-193101717807

Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthegarmentpod/

Poppy Treffry is an award-winning Cornish textile designer that started her business in an attic with a 1930’s sewing machine and car boot sale fabric in 2003 and now has a well-established business employing an army of sewers across rural cornwall.  When she started using freehand machine embroidery, it wasn't even a thing, and now you see it everywhere - so she really was a trailblazer! 

I really enjoyed our chat and Poppy’s obvious passion, not just for craft, but also business. I can’t wait to share her story with you, as well as tell you how her customers came to the rescue during the pandemic.  This is a lesson in following your gut and going for it - enjoy!

You can find out more about Poppy here: https://poppytreffry.co.uk/

There are many strings to Tracy Fox's bow, she describes herself as a dyer, print maker and artist creating the most beautiful art fabrics in her home studio in Manchester. She also uses her fabric to make stunning art quilts and has exhibited her work and sold her cloth at various craft shows over the years. It was at one of those shows, the Nantwich Quilters Exhibition and Fabric Sale, that she was approached to take over the management and running of the show, which she has done ever since. Five years on, she's now launching another show, this time in Manchester - The Great Northern Textile Show will take place later this month.

The Great Northern Textile Show will showcase crafts people and artists from the worlds of textiles, quilting, yarn crafts, embroidery, felting, spinning and other disciplines. There will also be craft guilds and organisations on hand to help visitors learn new skills if they want to add to their own repertoires.

I went along to Tracy's home studio to hear about her own creative journey, the way she creates her beautiful fabrics and what she uses them for along with her hopes for The Great Northern Textile Show too.

You can find Tracy's website here, as well as her Facebook & Instagram accounts.

More information about the Great Northern Textile Show can be found here.

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Welcome to Blazon

Textile design is all around us, it is our most ubiquitous interaction with the creative arts… wherever we look we see examples of work put in by talented textile designers all over the world. Despite this, it's an area of design people often overlook. 

In this episode we discuss the artistry of textile design with Margo Selby who gives us a candid insight into her journey as a textile artist, talking to us about the creativity, dedication and perseverance required.

Margo is  a renowned British textile artist and designer whose textiles are found the world over. Her design philosophy is focused on pushing the boundaries of weaving to create contemporary stylish fabrics and a range of textile applications. 

Link to the transcript can be found here: https://blazon.revstance.com/being-a-textile-designer-journal/

In this episode, I have a lovely conversation with Susie Vickery, a multitalented embroidery artist from Western Australia. She talks about her work with different cultural groups throughout Asia and Australia. She uses embroidery to make puppets, stop-motion animation, installations, and community projects. Find the show notes at https://thefabricthread.com/podcast-episode-8/  

Welsh textile artist Matthew Downham always  knew he wanted to be an artist, and when he picked up a needle and thread, he knew that was the medium for him. Matthew, who has exhibited his art in the United States, uses layers of stitches to cover teddy bears in his work.  For him, the act of threading a needle and tying a knot is as much part of the art as the finished piece itself.

In this episode, Matthew shared with me his journey to becoming the artist he is today, which was interrupted by a prolonged period of anxiety. I'm very grateful to Matthew for speaking so openly about the struggles he has faced so far, and am delighted he shared his story with me.

You can find Matthew on Instagram and via his website.

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Hello and welcome to the twentieth episode of Making Stitches. After two episodes almost exclusively focusing on crochet, our attention is turned to textiles and textile art in particular this time. Late last year I spoke to Yorkshire-based textile artist Janet Browne about her beautiful observational work which maps journeys she has made as well as townscapes, gardens and allotments.

Like all of us, 2020 and the pandemic has seen Janet's world shrink from the freedom of long car journeys to walks around her local neighbourhood and that has had an impact on her work. She spoke to me about her work,  how she wasn't able to create the work she does until this particular time in her life and how she finds inspiration everywhere - even in motorway traffic signs!

To see Janet's work, please visit her website : https://janetbrownetextiles.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/janet-browne/ or find her on Instagram

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Many of us choose to seek a different career path after starting a family, and Cathy Emmott is no different. She took the time she spent on maternity leave with her young family to look at ways of developing her creative side rather than returning to a job in finance. After a lifetime of being creative, she dusted off her sewing machine and began creating fabric pictures inspired by her surroundings in the Yorkshire Dales. Her business 'Dear Emma Designs' was born and after initially selling her work at local craft fairs, she branched into online sales and leading workshops to pass on the skills she has learned through her craft.

I had great fun speaking to her about her craft, her inspiration, how her business has developed over the past 15 years and about her wonderful workshop in her garden where all the magic happens.

You can find Cathy on social media as 'Dear Emma Designs' and here: dear-emma.com

For full show notes for this episode, please visit the Making Stitches website.
The music featured in this episode is Make You Smile by RGMusic from Melody Loops.

Making Stitches Podcast is recorded and edited by Lindsay from Postcard from Gibraltar.