It's time for 5/5! Green witch gloves, Frog and Toad, and a cross-stitch mural await. Keep on scrolling for five creatively inspiring things and five ways for you to DIY.
ICYMI, this 3D embroidered blep was the most-clicked link in the last 5/5 email.
✨ 5 creatively inspiring things
1️⃣ Wafa Ghnaim is a multi-hyphenate Palestinian dress historian and the founder of the Tatreez Institute. Tatreez is a traditional Palestinian embroidery technique that dates back 3,000 years. Wafa was recently on the radio show Hear & Now talking about embroidery art—including how it connects generations of Palestinians. Listen to it here.
2️⃣ For the past two years, Laura of Tiny Pretzel Embroidery has created a yearly temperature embroidery project where thread corresponds to the temperatures in Madison, Wisconsin. She’s started on the 2024 edition, and for this year she’s wrapping a rope in floss. I’m following along! Here's week 7.
3️⃣ Artist Andréa Orue has started a series of sewn and embroidered envelopes. They are beautiful, and that’s not all—she even included hand-embroidered correspondence to nestle inside.
4️⃣ Tessa Perlow calls this set of gloves her "green witch gloves." They're like looking into a magical garden.
5️⃣ I love word-centric art (just video chat with me and you’ll see), so OF COURSE I’m in awe of Liz Payne’s glittering artworks hand-stitched and beaded on paper. It’s amazing how they don’t use any glue!
🪡 5 ways to DIY
1️⃣ Someone make this cute slip dress by Friday Pattern Co.! I am working on another of their shirts, but this is next on my list. It’s perfect for spring/summer.
2️⃣ Threading a needle is one of my least favorite parts of embroidery. I prefer stitching with small needles (they give me the most control), but the eye of the needle can be tough to thread. Anne Oliver of Lolli and Grace shares an Ultra-Fine threader how-to that might just save my “stitching sanity” (and yours, too?). Here's the needle threader.
3️⃣ If you grew up reading (and loving) Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad book series, then this project is for you. Kristina McGowan has created an advanced knitting pattern of the two beloved literary characters—down to their little clothes!
4️⃣ Morgan Renfro painted a custom cross-stitch mural and it looks incredible. (And is as cool as it sounds!) Better yet, she shares how she did it in one comprehensive video so you can do it.
5️⃣ Want to put some spring in your step? Stitch this buoyant Lucky Bunny thread painting embroidery pattern by Emillie Ferris. [Affiliate link]
✂️ What you're working on
Writer and embroiderer Juliana Muñoz Toro:
"I am working in an embroidered tarot." In a video of the project on Instagram, she writes ,"To me, oracles are a creative shooter, a way to understand the hero's path. In other words: stories. Stories we tell, we thread, we build in the present moment."
What are you working on? Reply to this email and let me know! I might feature it in an upcoming email.
🧵 What I'm working on
I'm sketching for week 26 of my long-haul embroidery project, 52 Weeks to Ms. Frizzle project (learn more about it here).
Because I'm halfway through the project, I'm going to stitch a Jackson's chameleon—aka Liz Ard aka Ms. Frizzle's pet!
Talk to you next week,
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Sara Barnes
Embroidery illustrator and writer
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