Yesterday I released a new Youtube Video with the same title. Go check it out! There are a few other key factors to interpretive hand stitching, improvisational hand stitching, expressionist hand stitching or whatever else you might want to call it. I think all of these are good descriptors of my process when taking a […]
read moreEvery now and then it hits me. She’s gone. I will never see her again. I will never hold her hand with those arthritic knuckles that made them resemble gnarled tree branches, misshapen and yet beautiful. I will never get another email from her containing silly videos or stories or photos and it is during […]
read moreSomeone commented on my Youtube channel about messiness, saying that she was happy my work area isn’t pristine as that would be intimidating. And it made me think about the various stages of messiness. The gradient scale of messiness, because this is important. 1. Kind of “messy”, but it’s not a problem and anyway to […]
read moreIt all comes down to what you’re willing to say out loud. Which, one could argue, if you’re asking yourself this question it’s probably best left unsaid. You know? However, never one to stay quiet, I did just post a video regarding The Ice Cream Situation. You can view it below. So there’s that. Do […]
read moreI was having coffee with a friend the other day when he began a sentence with, “What I’ve learned from the pandemic…” Now this is a dear friend who also became very, very ill when the pandemic hit New York City, so much so that there were a few nights when it didn’t seem likely […]
read moreI did a major clean up of my work area because I’ve got a 2-day workshop beginning this afternoon, except that now I can’t find anything. This happens more often than you might think. With the best of intentions I do a massive clean-up, methodically putting things away and then begin to work and can’t […]
read moreTrying to find the balance between having tons of time to finish a project and having almost none is difficult. Do you agree? When you have all the time in the world, it allows you to procrastinate. But once you’ve gone down that road, it’s ....
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read moreThe headaches begin with a tightness. It’s like a shadow, looming just to the side. I can feel a tingling behind my eyes, at my temples, a scratchy sensation at the back of my head. It’s similar to when you sense someone’s looking at you before turning to meet their eyes. This is when I… Continue reading In Answer to, “How Are You?”
read moreWhen I was working as a contributing editor at Elle Magazine, the Fashion Director called me out loudly in front of the entire staff. She asked me if I was color blind, not in a concerned way, but as an accusation meant to humiliate, and demonstrate just how awful she thought my sense of color… Continue reading Color and Design
read moreMy version above of a meme by @stitchesnquilts that I saw on Instagram the other day and it made me laugh so I wanted to share my tweaked version of it. Because boy do I crave laughter right now. The meme below, another that has been making the rounds, made me smile. And who doesn’t… Continue reading When Times are Tough…
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