I think I’ve fallen down another creative rabbit hole. I missed writing last week. Sometimes life asks us to slow down, and last weekend I simply didn’t have the energy to gather my thoughts into a blog post. But while the words weren’t coming, the stitching certainly was. These concertina – or accordion – books…
There is something deeply satisfying about placing the final stitch in a project that has lived in your hands and thoughts for weeks. This week, I finished my Japan concertina book, and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. It became exactly what I had hoped it would be: twelve stitched pages, nestled…
I have spent a lot of time stitching this week. Wimbledon has been playing in the background, the soccer matches have kept me on the edge of my seat, and somewhere between all those hours of hand stitching, I finished my All About Pink textile book. I’m also about halfway through my Japan book, and…
Pink, Lace and Fútbol This past week has been one of those wonderfully ordinary ones. It was filled with grocery shopping, chores, cooking meals so I could enjoy leftovers later in the week, and all the little things that somehow fill our days. And then there was soccer. Or fútbol, as I still call it….
There is something deeply satisfying about finishing a textile book. For me, every book is an opportunity to explore new ideas – not just for the pages themselves, but for the way the book is constructed. I am endlessly fascinated by bookbinding and the many ways fabric, thread, and stitch can come together to hold…
Last year I began a new textile book. I wanted to try a new-to-me way of binding, following Anne Wood, but instead it became one of those projects that demanded patience, pauses, problem-solving, and more than a little stubbornness. There were starts and stops along the way, experiments that worked beautifully and others that definitely…