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Needlepoint chair
I have a stack of plastic canvas needlepoint patterns that I got thrifting. Much more prevalent on the craft scene in previous decades, these crafts take miniatures, pixel art design, and needlepoint and smash them together into a three-dimensional craft that ranges from home accessories to doll furniture. The needlepoint yarn often screams memories of…
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Palmistry: Chirognomy
A few years ago I learned the word Chirognomy: The corner of palmistry that focuses on the shape of the hands and fingers. The square layout familiar from my tarot zine nudged me to catalogue that word. My original witchy zine was my Tarot Zine. It was a reference for a workshop I ran for…
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The Enemy of Perfect
If perfect is the enemy of good, let me become the enemy of perfect. If I had a personal motto for this year, 2025 I think it’d be this. I used to come up with a personal motto for each year. They’ve ranged from “becoming Mama” to “Return to form”. Our little family has a…
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Tatter
Tatter is a maximalist raccoon. She’s into: I made a pattern a couple years back of a raccoon, and she was born this year in fall 2025. In 2022, my social group came down with a good case of the pregnants. By the beginning of 2023, there was a small baby cult that had big…
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@artisan_embroidery: Data Visualization meets Fiber Art
There is something satisfying about finding the space in the Venn Diagram that is both. Jordan Cunliffe of @artisan_embroidery creates work that lives in that space. Where data visualization meets fiber, beading and memory. Her art invites you to explore the “both” : logic and creativity, structure and softness. It asks you to think. It…
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Scrap yarn
Everything is in the middle part of its story. It was something, it currently is something, and one day it will be something else. There was a moment in my late 20s when I looked around me and realized that someone was responsible for almost everything around me that wasn’t part of nature. I looked…
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E-waste Basketry
In July I finished an artifact made of waste and time. It started as a tangle of coaxial cable and a spool of thrifted crochet thread. Orange is a meaningful color for me, so I selected it to contrast the black cord. It is a color I’d put on our family crest. My husband and…
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