Completed Doors

  The doors of my next casket are complete. The Hare is sound asleep in one of the Wanderscapes I have created for this series.    Here is the Hare from a slightly different angle. […]

The Hare and Wanderscapes

  Most of the background for the second door is complete. I am loving the intensity of color I get from the detached buttonhole shapes.     Here is the beginning of the sleeping Hare. […]

Slow and Steady

  Aesop’s Fables are the theme of my next casket. In the story of the Red House, Claire and William run a puppet theater of fables.    The colors look rather gloomy. We haven’t seen […]

Back to Hand Stitching

  I have started stitching casket 3. Here is the left hand door. I arrived at this place in the design process because of the experiments I did with freehand machine embroidery.    This is […]

Why Not Use a Machine?

  I have been playing with free motion machine embroidery.   I have used traditional casket designs for the Cabinet of Curiosities class and made a 21st century panel of stumpwork.    I have already […]

Home Again

  My “Once Upon A Time” casket is home! Thank you Winterthur for the wonderful opportunity to be a part of your exhibit “Embroidery: The Thread of History”. It was a magical experience from beginning […]

The Mountains

  The mountains are taking shape at the top of the panel.   As I stitch I am making notes of all the details I will come back to later, details I will be adding […]

Trying To Get It Right

  I had fun stitching Bubbledom….   …until I stepped back and looked at it in context with the rest of the map. Too dark and gloomy so….   I took it out. Not only […]