Following the success of our Instagram LIVE with Daniel Lismore and requests for more, we are delighted to announce our second Instagram LIVE on Thursday 8 October at 1pm with Jamie Chalmers, aka Mr X Stitch. Jamie took up cross stitching 15 years ago and he’s never looked back, referring to himself as a ‘Manbroiderer’!

Since establishing the Mr X Stitch website in 2008, Jamie has been showcasing new talent in the world of textiles and stitch and has curated a number of stitch-based exhibitions in the UK and Ireland. Jamie is an accomplished and internationally exhibited artist in his own right, the curator of PUSH Stitchery and the author of the Mr X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch. He is the founder of ‘Stitch’, the game-changing Cross Stitch design magazine which launched in summer 2017.

Jamie is an active leader in the online stitch community, what he has dubbed ‘the new embroidery movement’, and is active on various social networking platforms. He loves introducing new people to the benefits of embroidery from a creative and wellbeing standpoint and is proud to be an ambassador for this ubiquitous craft.

Angie Wyman, Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery Degree, will be in conversation with Jamie, discussing his passion for embroidery and textiles, and his support for the RSN Embroider a Selfie, a project for schools to encourage children to step away from their phones and express themselves through stitch instead! To ‘meet’ Jamie before our LIVE, head over to his TEDx Talk where you will hear him talk about how “your life can be enriched by something as simple as a needle and thread.”

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