Hand embroidery.
Some yarns are handspun, others are commercial. 
I repurposed some ABU fabric to embellish.

Thanks.  I don't know sometimes if I fit into Art or Craft, but I want to be considered Art at this point in my life.   

Portrait embroidered with cotton, silk, and linen floss on a repurposed USAF dress blues shirt. Measures 11" by 14".

Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the AK47.  As a military wife in the middle of an agonizingly long war, I have worked on military themed art for the last few years.  I know I should put this is Needlework, but I have worked for years to transcend craft and create fine art with the medium.  I hope you'll let me stay.

Just a little art quilt I made.  It's all stitched by machine.

I'm starting a new series inspired by Pablo Neruda's poems.  I'm trying to exhault the ordinary objects that are so much a part of my daily life.



I hope you enjoy it!

My latest in The Promise of Pills series.  I used cotton and rayon floss on a traditional linen tea towel.  The image is approx 10" by 4".  I have always loved the sleepy eye on Rx bottle stickers.  I blogged about it if you're interested in the idea behind it.  30 or more shades of floss.

16" by 9"  Cotton and rayon on a printed cotton background.

I'm exploring my 23 year love affair with meds.  Join me, won't you?

My biggest concern was trying to get stitching to look like painting--gestural and complex.  I am crazy excited about this project. 

I can't resist this face.

I've never posted to the weaving board before, so I thought I'd just put everything in one post.

The purple and white blanket is handspun.


The red and brown blanket is 4ft by 8 ft.


The hot pink thing is a scarf for my stepdaughter.


The pillow was a gift to my husband for our cottton anniversary.


Thanks for looking!
Alex