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Hayley Mills-Styles: Thread Artist Who Loves Digital Embroidery Today on the Stitchery Stories embroidery and textile art podcast, Hayley Mills-Styles shares her life in fabric & thread. Hayley describes herself as a thread artist, and has had a very busy year so far culminating in two solo exhibitions. Whilst she has a love for backstitch, we have a great chat about her love of digital embroidery. Susan Weeks chats with Hayley about: - A busy year preparing for exhibitions
- The joy of working collaboratively, as well as visiting museums for research
- Loving libraries and all those "real books"
- Connecting people, places and materials
- Unpicking things as a curious child
- How much do we love backstitch?
- Discovering the world of digital embroidery
- An obsession with pin cushions
- The excitement of unusual objects as embroidery inspiration
- Writing about Narwhals!
- The roller-coaster of freelance creative businesses
- Who has 37 types of 'post-it notes'?
- and much more...
For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Hayley's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hayleymillsstyles Follow the Stitchery Stories Instagram channel at: https://www.instagram.com/stitcherystories_podcast/ Visit: http://www.hayleymillsstyles.com Look: https://www.instagram.com/hmillsstyles Like: https://www.facebook.com/hmillsstyles Tweet: https://twitter.com/@HMillsStyles/ Visit: Whitby Museum https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/ Visit: Love Arts Festival (Leeds) http://www.loveartsleeds.co.uk/ |