The topic of AI in the needlework world has been on my radar for well over a year. But I’ve hesitated about writing on the subject of Artificial Intelligence because I didn’t believe that it would really influence the embroidery world all that much – not the real embroidery world, where real people are interested in doing real things with their real hands and their real minds, using real materials.

But AI is becoming more and more influential in several aspects of “popular” needlework as time goes on. If you spend much time online and you explore needlework especially in social networks, you’ve probably come across AI in one form or another. It’s not just in images – it’s in writing, too – but lately, the images are The Big Hook. They’re the things that draw you in.

Keep in mind, though, that it’s not the real designers, the real teachers, the real artists that are driving AI into the creative world.