Moxie posted the latest piece of handmade fiber genius to her flickr account. This is the “Isle of Aisle”, one in her Lost at Sea Series. I think this is some very emotionally stirring work. The embroidery is a part of the Lost at Sea exhibition, opening at Hanahou Gallery in NYC on Thursday, May […]
I’m madly in love with the scientific stitchery of The Voracious Brain. She’s a scientist and stitcher, and her work is clever, thought-provoking and even educational. It makes me wish a textbook publisher would use them as illustrations. How awesome would it be to see these in your science book instead of some boring, computer-generated […]
I love this sweet embroidered mirror frame project from Corinne of So September. She stitched the message, “Well, now, don’t you look cute today!” around the edge of the mirror. Perfection!
Sarah of Totally Severe wowed us with her embroidered The Price is Right piece, made us cheer with her Tim Gunn embroidery and captured incredible detail and character with her Amy Winehouse portrait. Now she’s given us Schrute Farms embroidery. Thank you, Sarah. Just… thank you.
Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching points us to this rad speaker-turned-birhouse complete with an embroidered front. It’s part of a project called Learning From in which Nora Korn and Christoph Köhler spent three months collecting bulky trash and the converted it in to new objects. I’m now eyeing the speakers in our house in a […]
I’m fascinated by the works of artist, Miyoshi Barosh, who combines layers upon layers of crochet, knit, embroidered and other fiber pieces to create art that is simultaneously bold and soft. My work collides the domestic world of craft with the muscular images of Pop in signs: maps, banners, billboards, and roadside attractions. Like figures […]
The crafter at Twitchy Fingers was wanting to use up some remnant embroidery floss, and she came up with this! She says she started out trying to make an eye, but it turned into something more abstract. I love it. Especially how all the colors are indistinguishable when they are all coiled together, and then […]
