Category: embroidery

  • I’m appreciative of the foresight to make a post before the end of the year about my progress in my embroidery practice. Here are some questions and answers. I got the questions from ChatGPT. I asked: “I am making a blog post batching the embroidery I’ve done in the last seven months. Help me by…

  • Stitching on light, transparent chiffon feels smooth and effortless. The fabric offers little resistance, letting me focus on detail. Sigils, mudras, and the Flower of Life inspire me. Each stitch channels intention and mindfulness into my work. I’ve developed a rhythm: inbox and outbox for my projects. When I finish, I clear space for new…

  • This year’s threadlife includes patches, mobiles, and wall hangings. I was blessed with a commission from a new father to make a mobile and it made me think about other ways to use the loads of embroidery floss I have. This year, feels like a leap into three dimensions and I’m for it.

  • A summary of 2020’s needlework

    In playing a game of “catch-up” or “catch-all,” here are images from the year 2020 of portraits where to varying degrees of styling and photographing embroidery/sewings– it’s by no means exhaustively catalogging all the things that passed through my hands this last year. Possibly one of the saddest things about art/craft documentation is that you…

  • I worked on these brooches fairly recently, but I feel compelled to add that when I blogged about my new year’s eve, I saw the dates between today and the last time I published a blog which was February of Last Year (insert The Killers lyric, it’s not consequential, I got potential, I digress). I…

  • My last zine describes my foray into embroidery in such a way that I would recommend requesting that if you want to get the fully pensive scoop on my inspiration through this new medium. Long story short, I took a class with some miracle money that I came into and it has altered the course…