Communities of Stitch

A few bits of images from Experimental Hand Stitching.

I wish I was a reliable picture taker, but I find that I am immersed in the moment, and when it passes, I wish I had taken more photos. This happened last week during an amazing workshop at Quilting By the Lake. My photos are meager, but the experience was rich and full of discovery. Eighteen artists, embroidering and stitching together, making meaning with needle and thread. Thanks to the Schweinfurth Art Center staff, the other teaching artists and the talented participants for a wonderful week in Syracuse NY. Some amazing exploration of stitch happened, but more importantly, we so easily formed a community of artists, sharing a common interest—and a common thread. I left with renewed inspiration and a lot of new art friends.

Here is a new set of Amulet Bundles, these are for cutting strings.

My Reading List for July: The Chalk Artist, by Allegra Goodman; Blood Child, by Octavia Butler; and Lucky Turtle, by Bill Roorbach.