The Stitchscape Swap!
Welcome to the Stitchscape Swap gallery! The Stitchscape Swap is a monthly challenge whereby members sign up and create two 'Artist Trading Cards', or ATCs, a month on a different theme. One of these will be for you to keep, and the other will be sent by post to Dotty Textiles to be swapped with someone else's beautiful creation for you to receive back as happy mail. We are now in our fourth year of swapping so have a look through the gallery pages for an insight into the wonderful work created last year.
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For more details on how to sign up to the monthly swap, please email sales@dottytextiles.com so that we can return an email with further information.
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Origins of the ATC
The concept of Artist Trading Cards was first developed in the late 1990s by Swiss artist, M. Vänci Stirnemann, who created a catalogue of small artworks for an exhibition and invited other artists to create similar pieces in their own style to ‘trade’ at the end of the exhibition.
They are always a set size; 2.5 x 3.5 Inches and are often more usually made as a paper item, either painted or collaged for example, but, for the purposes of this swap, they must include fabric and embroidery.
Monthly Galleries
Click on the images to see the full month's collection
featuring the beautiful work that has already been swapped
2025 Themes
January: Murmuration
Starlings, close ups of other migratory birds, migratory flight patterns, swirls of dots or marks, fly stitch birds, silhouettes against the sky
February: Lovers Lane
Country lanes, signposts, heart flowers, silhouetted figures, lovebirds, hearts, love knots, entwined branches
March: Pond Life
Inside ponds/underwater, waterlilies, frogspawn, newts or other aquatic pond animals, visitors to the pond, plant life, ornamental garden ponds or those found in nature
April: Farmyard Friends
Specific farm animal focus, fields and farmstead, farmyard practices, farmer/farm workers and their livestock
May: Hot Air Ballooning
Balloons in the sky, view from the basket, balloon festival, sunset silhouettes, canopy patterns, view into the balloon, vintage balloons, steampunk
June: Along the Towpath
Canal-side, narrowboats, locks, horse drawn boats, bridges, fishermen, canal wildlife, weeping willows, canal paths, folksy colours, Roses & Castles traditional painting style
July: Rose Cottage
Cottage garden, roses around a door or garden frame, rose gardens, trellis layouts, close ups of roses, rose pink painted cottage, rose petals, rose bunches
August: Sunflowers
Sunflower fields, sunflower bunches, close up of petals or centre formations, scientific anatomical observations, whole flower heads
September: Komorebi
Japanese term for ‘sunlight leaking through trees’, woodland sun rays, dappled woodland colours, shimmering gold rays around tree trunks, looking up to the canopy
October: Red Sky at Night
'Red sky at night, shepherds delight’, sunsets, silhouettes, colour wash of red, stars, tinted cloudscapes
November: Doorways
Open doors, doors to different rooms, fantasy doorways, weathering, arches, stone surrounds, door frames, handles or panels, peeling paint, door curtains, figures within a doorway
December: Fireside Crackle
Burning logs or coal, fireplaces, flames under a mantlepiece, sitting room scenes, items hung by the fire, toasting tea cakes, flame details
2024 Themes
2023 Themes
2022 Themes
