hand embroidery

Getting into the weeds

Ok, sometimes I repeat myself, I admit. Unless I get tired of making something I might make multiple versions of the same thing?  Does anyone else do that? One image has been particularly prone to this repetitive activity. I had silkscreened a two-color image on a piece of satin rescued from an old wedding gown […]

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The People's Violin

I’ve just completed new work in the Eastern Europe in Stitches series. I’m getting ready to hang a show of the complete body of work at Judy’s on Cherry in Reading on Monday.  The reception will be Thursday, November 15, 5-7 PM. The show is called Doubletake East, because my husband Jay Ressler will also

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Spring?

I am part of Cloth in Common, a group of international artists who respond to bi-monthly prompts. The current prompt is “Spring.” Here the crocuses have sprung, only to emerge into a cold and still brown yard. And, again today, it is snowing. It’s hard for me to think “Spring!” However, I just returned from

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Day 29 The Little Red Maple

The smallest of our red maple trees, with the final leaves clinging to its branches caught my eye in late autumn. The background is pieced sections of a hand painted cloth panel from Malaysia, bought at Ladyfingers Sewing Studio in Oley, PA (a treasure trove of fine fabrics.) I had actually made most of this

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