Stitching Emotions: call for contributions

Stitching Emotions is a new contributory project to make a piece for a large fabric book to be exhibited in my exhibition ‘Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch & Life’ in Sept 2025.

We don’t know Mary Linwood’s feelings about her embroidery practice but she must have loved stitching. Women’s experiences in history are rarely recorded and we have very little written evidence of how they felt about doing embroidery. 

This project gives a voice to women’s experience of stitching and embroidery and allows us to share why we do this practice of slow hand stitching.

I’d love to have contributions from women stitchers across the world, all sharing your experiences of stitching. This is not a prescriptive project – you decide and design your own piece, using your own words and images, with a few boundaries around colour and materials. You can keep it as simple or make it as complex as you like, and there’s a choice of sizes, small, medium or large. The deadline is spring 2025.

There’s a detailed brief with colour palettes, images and hopefully comprehensive instructions here.

Find out more about Mary Linwood here or go direct to the project brief here.