For the last 8 months I’ve been embroidering a lot. This is a dress that I upcycled with some embroidery on the front.
Here’s are a few other views where you can see the embroidery better:
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This is slow stitching intuitive embroidery #38. It was a sort of experiment, I used mostly couched pieces of felt to form the spirals.
It’s been quite some time since I posted, several months! This is intuitive embroidery #36. I continue my explorations with slow stitching and fabric collage.
This burgundy purse is piece #20 in a long line of embroidered purses. First I create the patch over a sandwich of fabric collage and after completed, attach it to fabric purses.
Since November of 2025 I’ve been making patches and attaching them to fabric purses. Here are a few of the many that I have already made.
This is a large embroidered floral patch, measuring about 9x9 inches. I haven’t found a home for it yet, but hope that soon it will embellish a purse or jacket.
Here you can see an intuitive embroidery that I made for a friend, I attached it to the back of a denim jacket.
Here you can see an embroidery that I made for the front panel of a purse, measuring more or less 9x10 inches. I love the big flowers, inspired by passion fruit flowers.
I embroidered freeform over a piece of fabric taken from a dress that no longer fit me but still had a lot of meaning.
I’m so pleased with this beautiful mandala I made using a stencil by Kathryn Costa (Four Gates Mandala). I mixed two techniques: 1) painting with Pitt artist brush pens and Inktense pencils and 2) embroidering on paper. Very very fun to make!
For the last 8 months or so I’ve been embroidering over fabrics. This is a dress that I upcycled with two hand embroidered panels.