16 8 / 2011
You can visit Sajou in Paris, stock up on vintage thread cards, get this book…get one for me too, please.
16 8 / 2011
If you wanted to buy me a present, please buy me this rainbow-like array from Sajou. (Via Purl Soho, a store that I would love a lot more if they had better customer service, ahem.)
16 8 / 2011
If you want to see legit embroidered portraits (wool and acrylic on linen, most frequently, look no further than Cayce Zavaglia.
16 8 / 2011
My next project…
Will be to complete the wedding triumvirate and stitch something from our wedding. I’m planning on documenting my progress, stitching session by session. This could go on and on (the last portrait that I finished, of Rob’s parents, took me seven dedicated months).
16 8 / 2011
My first foray into embroidering portraits free-hand (a Ban the Bomb protest that I attended with my brother and father in 1982). I bet you can’t figure out which one is the girl in the photo, right? I’m hanging out by myself on the far left, looking like a legitimately angry protestor.
