Floral arrangements in concrete 💕

Rescued from shreds - found this STUNNING embroidery (maybe Chinese?) in a giveaway pile, the silk background was deteriorating badly….

So I stitched it down to a linen base so it can live again! As the front of a dress - more to come!

I ruined the bottom sphere of this snowman attempt, and in true “designers, make it work” fashion (it was almost sunset after all), I turned this into a bust of an LA yogini with top knot

An ode to my many years of coastal living, hence, lack of snowman building capabilities?

When the sun hits just right on the winter snow and sleepy branches…

These quick videos bring me so much joy to watch!

Yes embroidery takes a long time, and I don’t want to ignore that - but watching the process unfold fluidly allows me to think about future designs in a whole new way…

#handembroidery #embroideryartist #embroidery #textileart

This one’s called crossroads and anytime I hear that word I sing Bone Thugs n Harmony inside… a cousin of mine, at the age of 12, could recite every. Single. Line. Of that song.

He is no longer in this realm, and I think of him every time I hear it 🩶

I get the words are important at all, but as a visual learner, I just really don’t see how this can replace a visual scroll 😩

But at this point, I’ll give anything a try.

Some of my favorite pages from The Art of Embroidery Design 🥰

Now available for purchase anywhere you can buy books!

Ask your local bookstore to order it, or hit up bookshop.org or ThriftBooks.com and search for it there.

I wrote a book!! …it got published the day after the inauguration, and I’ve never felt so much like I was advertising in the middle of a dumpster fire.

Especially since LA is literally on fire.

Anyways.

I wrote a book!!