Hey friends, I’ll keep this post short and sweet, because I’m out of town for Christmas and been busy—like eating delicious food and seeing the new Star Wars… Here’s one of my favorite things I’ve seen in a while—a Baroque Lovebird by…
Hey friends, I’ll keep this post short and sweet, because I’m out of town for Christmas and been busy—like eating delicious food and seeing the new Star Wars… Here’s one of my favorite things I’ve seen in a while—a Baroque Lovebird by…
I spent half of my weekend with sinus woes, going through a box of kleenex on Sunday. These embroideries by Giselle Quinto are giving me life, though! I love how she mixes the intricate detailing of the colorful hair with the simpler…
Artist Sabatina Leccia plays with abstract color and threaded marks in her Painting Embroidery series. Here, the stitches become part of the painting, adding a contemporary spin on the timeless craft of embroidery. “I work directly on the fabric, without preparing sketches beforehand,”…
I’m always looking for inspiring Instagram accounts, and I’ve found that with Yumiko Higuchi (@yumikohiguch). Her embroidery is beautiful and process-oriented, so you see a lot of work-in-progress and detail shots in her feed. Judging from how many different patterns and…
The devil’s in the details, as they say, and let me tell you—there are some great illustrative details in Gucci’s Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear collection. It includes some very decorated dresses, jackets, pants, and accessories, with glittering sequin snakes, flowers, and bows.…
Sarah K. Benning is a contemporary crafts-lady who fills wooden hoops with meticulously-stitched ferns, cacti, and other potted houseplants. As a fellow plant embroiderer, I absolutely love these—they’re little vignettes of everyday life, created with the time-honored tradition of stitching. They’re a…
For over 40 years, artist Ed Bing Lee has created knotted artworks to form small sculptures like sweet treats and junk food. He was first attracted to this fiber process because of its “immediacy, and the fact that little specialized equipment is…
Ever thought about adding florals to your daily stretches? Illustrator and textile designer Caitlin Shearer has, as evidenced in her series Reproduction. The soft, airy images feature a woman as she poses with uncolored blooms. Simultaneously surreal, beautiful, and strange, the series…
This past weekend, I went to the opening of Coordinate Disregard at the Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore. There, I saw the work Brooklyn-based fiber artist Alicia Scardetta, who I’ve been following on Instagram but hadn’t before seen her colorful weavings in person. And let me…
At the end of July, I posted about an embroidery project I was working on: Favorite Bites in Baltimore. I’m happy to say that it’s done (!!) and features some of my favorite things I’ve eaten during my 10+ years…