Illustrator Milena (Milo) Hachim has a penchant for quirky character design that is best expressed in three-dimensional forms. Her figures are readers, dreamers, and basketball players. Each piece has the delightful wonkiness that comes from being crafted by hand. Milo…
If you’ve lived somewhere for a while, chances are you feel some pride for that place. It’s why US state-inspired t-shirts and jewelry are wildly popular. Celeste Johnston of Lemon Made Shop has created an embroidered twist on this trend with…
It’s not often that I post anything about my own work; I like to focus this website on others! In addition to writing, however, I embroider. I’m pretty slow, mostly because I have limited time in my day to dedicate…
Artist Solange Nunes thinks outside the hoop by embroidering on a precarious material—dried leaves. Taking on their brittle and delicate surface, she stitches colorful bouquets on the brown backgrounds. The juxtaposition she’s created is exciting in more ways that one.…
Artist Elise Lefebvre combines the exacting edges of ceramics with a surface treatment akin to watercolor. Her chunky forms, featuring portraits of animals and people, are expressed with carefree fluidity you’d find in painting. They have diffused edges of colors that…
There’s something missing from Katie Tume’s fiber art. Working under the name Mother Eagle, her intricate landscape embroideries and appliqued pieces highlight stunning details including three-dimensional leaves and layered beading. But in every piece, a small creature is removed from…
Artist Lorien Stern is naturally afraid of sharks but has based a large part of her creative practice on forming them from clay. “I like making them look kinda goofy or in bright colors or smiling,” she explains in a documentary…
Artist Mika Hirasa uses cloth as if it were paint and stitches as brushstrokes in narrative hand appliqué embroidery. Her work is often focused on fables and classic stories like Little Red Riding Hood, and the time-honored craft techniques pair well…
I love it when illustrators venture into ceramics; their knack for character design and storytelling lend themselves well to the creation of unique objects that bring their 2D world to life. So when I saw Mar Hernández, aka Malota, was…
Fenny Suter of Suter Design & Co. creates idyllic landscapes using a punch needle and thread. She combines a mixture of stitches to vary the textures—perfect for showcasing the different parts of a lagoon. She’s used the appliqué in the…