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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Vulnerable & confident... with a needle in my hand

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You are who you are. Detail from Redwork Mami, 2015. I am who I am. Rinsing. Still stitching. Confident and still very vulne...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Everything is there, under the thread

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I painted this background watercolor of a cold, dark, rainy day. The kind of day that usually wears me down... the grayness of the external ...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Bascom Hogue Considers my Riff

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I’m immensely fortunate to have some amazing artists and writers as online friends. The indomitable Kansas-based artist Bascom Hog...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Blurs and WIPs

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Feeling frazzled by work in the salt mines and balancing it all with my creative life. Boring refrain of many of poor chump, I know.   P...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Quick, 80s-themed Seven for the Pi Day Project

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The good folks of Vancouver, WA, are organizing a little textile art celebration for Pi Day this year, March 14, 2015. The little nerd that...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Moonlet and String Diamonds

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Finished two new pieces for an art fundraiser at the Compass Center for Women and Families in Chapel Hill. Moonlet, 2015. Watercolor, h...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

First Scenes, 2015

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WIPs and starts of early 2015. Mostly mute. Getting back into the early morning strength training, corporate salt mines day job and attemp...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Kwik-E Bliss. Pleasure in seconds.

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Some pleasure is in the waiting. Not Kwik-E Bliss. Kwik-E Bliss., 2014 Mixed media and hand embroidery. This is the bliss of getting ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

String Box 4, for my brother and his beautiful family

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String Box 4, 2014. Watercolor and hand embroidery. I know I'm a little obsessed with these String Boxes . I can't believe th...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Now Showing - Threads of War

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By crazy coincidence, a portion of the Denmark-based collaborative art project in which I participated, In a War Someone has to Die , is cur...
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olisa
Durham, NC, United States
I’m a Durham-based stitch artist & blogger, with a focus on text, self-portraiture & texture. I embroider, sketch, paint and experiment. This blog is a place to share my creative exploration of my world. You can also find my monthly column, Inspired to Stitch, on Mr X Stitch. Other passions: Travel, baseball, stories & cooking. I’m Nuyorican and my dial is turned to 11! Thanks for stopping by. Leave me a comment, mijos.
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