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A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful English countryside, captured in stitch, by artist Sue Nicholls.

Sue lives in rural Hertfordshire and uses her sketchbook to document her local landscape. Each image is a source for her stunning machine and hand embroidered art works. For instance, her depictions of snowy furrows and hedgerows, recreated in wool felt and thread.

Similarly, the large tree scapes were created from drawings of Gunby Hall and Gardens estate, a National Trust property.

Images courtesy: https://suenichollsdesigns.co.uk

Sue is a member of The Society for Embroidered Work.

Embroidered Landscapes - a wall of embroidered art work in a studio — Embroidered Landscapes in Sue’s Studio

Work in progress - paper design ideas of trees by Sue Nicholls — Tree designs for Gunby Hall by Sue Nicholls

Work in Progress by Sue Nicholls - and embroidered landscape being machine stitched on a Bernina sewing machine — Work in Progress

sketch books showing art and sketches in black and white of ploughed fields and trees — Sue’s sketch books – ploughed fields and trees.

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the contemporary Stitch work courtesy of the members of The Society for Embroidered Work (S.E.W.). Have you discovered this new international art society, dedicated to stitch?

#StitchedArtisArt is the Society’s Hashtag. It was co-founded in 2018 by Cat Frampton and Emily Tull, in response to opinions that ‘Stitched work is just a Craft’, and to raise the profile of embroidery as a recognised art form.

The first members’ exhibition was in November 2019, and I was there to film it for you and to chat to Cat and Emily about the Society’s aims and ambitions – I also asked them how, as fellow stitchers, we could all apply to join!

To find out more information about the Society, S.E.W. have a website and are on Instagram.

The stitched artwork in the YouTube Thumbnail is by Marna Lunt, Kate Tume and Sarah Gwyer.