Feel a tad emotional? Here’s a little more to add…….. Meet artist Jenni Dutton. She has the Fine Art skills of a painter, yet Embroidery is her medium of choice. Her collection, celebrating the life of her mother, will be available to view at this years The Knitting and…
Stitchgasm! Walt by Mary Jo Eckhart
Allow me to introduce you to Walt. He is gorgeous, no? Recently, I was lucky enough to meet the Chicago-area stitcher Mary Jo Eckhart at a workshop at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, an art school in the Great Smoky Mountains. We were both enrolled in a week-long class…
The Floating Stitched Faces of Marjolein Starreveld
There’s a certain haunting quality to the machine embroidery work of artist Marjolein Starreveld. Faces emerge as if from a fog, distorted in ways that seem almost like a glitch in the matrix. The raw, mixed media quality of the pieces combined with trailing threads gives everything the sense that…