About this podcast
Jamie “Mr X Stitch” Chalmers talks with contemporary embroidery, cross stitch, textile art, and mixed media art creators about how they design their work, build sustainable creative businesses, and stay inspired with a needle and thread.
NeedleXChange shares in‑depth conversations with fiber artists, stitchers, and makers so you can discover new techniques, creative journeys, and the modern needlework scene.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 173 episodes
- Russell Barratt - Within & Without [NX158] · 29 min · Episode 158In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Russell Barratt, a contemporary textile artist known for turning clothing and domestic fabrics into quilts with a distinctly…
- Lord Libidan - Thread Detective Part 2 [NX157] · 32 min · Episode 157In this episode of NeedleXChange I continue my interview Lord Libidan, the Yorkshire-based cross stitch designer, blogger and author. Part 2 is all about the making: his new…
- Lord Libidan - Thread Detective [NX156] · 41 min · Episode 156In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Lord Libidan, the Yorkshire-based cross stitch designer, blogger and author. In Part 1 we trace how a rained-off summer and a tiny…
- Haf Weighton - Looking Up Part 2 [NX155] · 25 min · Episode 155In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Haf Weighton, a Wales-based contemporary embroidery and textile artist known for turning place, memory and identity into stitch. This…
- Haf Weighton - Looking Up [NX154] · 31 min · Episode 154In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Haf Weighton, a Wales-based contemporary embroidery and textile artist whose work is rooted in places, journeys and the details we…
- Prisma Andrade: Making the Ordinary Sacred Part 2 [NX153] · 38 min · Episode 153In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Prisma Andrade, a Chicago-based fiber and textile artist and recent School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate whose work turns…
- Prisma Andrade: Making the Ordinary Sacred [NX152] · 33 min · Episode 152In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Prisma Andrade, a Chicago-based fiber and textile artist and recent School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate whose work turns…
- Margot Peer – Wonky in the Right Way Part 2 [NX151] · 53 min · Episode 151This is Part 2 of my conversation with mixed-media artist Margot Peer. We open with her breakout piece, "Cross Stitch of Me Crying in My Bathroom When I Was 16," scaled up to a…
- Masey Kaplan - Loose Ends [NX150] · 55 min · Episode 150In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Masey Kaplan, founder of the Loose Ends project, a global community that matches volunteer textile finishers with projects left…
- Margot Peer – Wonky in the Right Way [NX149] · 38 min · Episode 149In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Margot Peer, a mixed-media artist and Rhode Island School of Design painting major whose hyperrealistic cross-stitches turn deeply…
- REPLAY: Meredith Woolnough | Organic Machine Embroidery [NX008] · 53 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #8. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Peter Frederiksen - Tension In His Stitches Part 2 [NX064] · 46 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #64. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Peter Frederiksen - Tension In His Stitches [NX063] · 45 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #63. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art Part 2 [NX087] · 47 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #87. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art [NX086] · 31 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #86. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Orly Cogan - Modern Fictions Part 2 [NX034] · 49 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #[]. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Orly Cogan - Modern Fictions [NX033] · 38 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #33. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Diana Weymar - Pricks of Inspiration Part 2 [NX056] · 1 h 5 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #56. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: Diana Weymar - Pricks of Inspiration [NX055] · 43 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #55. In this episode of…
- REPLAY: John Thomas Paradiso | Exotic Embroiderings Part 2 [NX012] · 38 minIt's the school summer holidays and I'm taking a break. So instead of new chats, I'm replaying some of my old favourites! This is a repeat of episode #12. In this episode of…
