Stitch Stories

Stitch Stories
Subtitle: Personal Places, Spaces and Traces in Textile Art
Author: Cas Holmes

An inspiring guide to creating textile art from personal stories and everyday experiences.

Stitch Stories explores how moments from your life—whether simple daily observations or meaningful journeys—can become powerful sources of creative inspiration. Cas Holmes shares her approach to capturing these experiences through sketchbooks, journals, and photography, and transforming them into expressive stitched textiles.

Blending practical techniques with storytelling, this book encourages a deeply personal and intuitive approach to textile art.

Inside this book

• Recording ideas through sketchbooks and journals
• Using photography as both inspiration and material
• Incorporating found objects and ephemera
• Techniques for developing stitched textile pieces

Key topics covered

• Layered collage and mixed media techniques
• “Sketching” with stitch
• Working with colour, texture, and composition
• Creating narrative through textiles

Why you’ll love it

• Inspiring and accessible guidance
• Combines creativity with personal storytelling
• Encourages exploration of your own experiences
• Beautifully presented with visual examples

Perfect for

• Textile artists and makers
• Creative practitioners
• Travel and journalling enthusiasts
• Craft and design lovers

Personal and expressive, Stitch Stories invites you to turn your experiences into art—supporting creativity, storytelling, and meaningful expression.

Product Details

• Format: Hardcover
• Number of Pages: 128
• Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 27.6 x 1.6