Tina Fey... 2inx3in, 2904 stitches, 10 color palette.  Oh how I love her.


Audrey Hepburn  3x4 inch, 1700 stitches (white is canvas, not stitched), 14 color palette.

both patterns made w/ PC Stitch.

a friend is trying to eliminate unnecessary paper from her life, so she's switching to using linen napkins all the time.

i embroidered these for her.

from the mitch o'connell series put out by sublime stitching...


shoe from jenny hart's stitch-it kit converted to peep to and text added by me-- that's my handwriting  


lipstick from jenny hart's stitch-it kit with FEMME.  the best part?  the strands of metallic in the lipstick tube, if you ask me...


i made this before chrismahanukwanzaka h.  i love the rainbow houndstooth border. 


two queer slogans-- they're patches now and have been given to friends in the avengers.


a custom bowling towel


paul westerberg, musician

i'm working on a few things right now... a portrait of audrey hepburn, a birthday gift for my father-out-law, and more queer slogans.

i've started a cross-stitch graffiti project where i stitch things and leave them in public places... the slogans are part of that.

my partner's mom is a super liberal catholic who works at a catholic church...this is for her desk.  she loves it.


i made a bunch of these-- these are the first four.  they are tucked into 2.5x3.5 inch magnetic photo sleeves






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bumping for St. Paddy's Day



i made the pattern for this yesterday morning and stitched off & on all day.

finished piece is 6 inches wide by 2 inches high.

Oprah Winfrey


Dorothy Parker


Clara Bow


Michel Foucault


Gandhi



As always, patterns were made on PC Stitch, and these were all stitched by me over the last few months...  I'm working on Benazir Bhutto now-- she should be finished by tomorrow if I get a lot done tonight while watching election results.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was done on 22 hardanger w/ a palette of 18 colors for a greyscale effect.



Grace Kelly was done on 18 AIDA w/ the same palette.



For optimal viewing, stand up and walk a few feet from the computer.  The only way I know how to take photos makes them look like close-ups and they look better from a few feet away.

bettie page


marilyn monroe


dolly parton

(frustrated--this looks so much better in person than in photo)


elliott smith

i haven't posted anything in awhile because i've been embroidering, but i finally finished this.  i started it back in march or something when it was still really cold out here, and then when it got warm, i totally stopped stitching on it!

The finished work is 6x4, 73 color palette, for a grand total of 11, 616 stitches!!!

i wanted to enter it in the Minnesota State Fair, but i missed the registration deadline. 

here you go...

I'm from Cincinnati, OH  originally but now live in St. Paul, MN.  My partner & I went to Cinci for Thanksgiving and were hanging out in Sitwells Coffeehouse.  My partner was reading and I was working on my (still unfinished) x-stitch portrait of Patsy Cline.  This person walking past our table stopped and asked if I do portraits of anyone, and I said, "yea, anyone with money".  Well, he asked me right then to do his portrait, so I took his photo and a cash deposit.  Here's the finished product.  The background is a white 18 ct aida w/ silver metallic woven through.



As usual, I fixed up the photo in Photoshop and then imported it into PCStitch to make the pattern.

Sadly, my scanner is broken and the photo didn't turn out as well as I would have liked...