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Tina Morris

Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Plastic Fantastic

Hand embroidery on recycled plastic

“I am a Mixed-media artist living in the UK.”

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Susana Wurzel

Newtonville, Maine

Till Death Do Us Part...Lifelong Jeans

Sashiko mending, reverse appliqué, patching, random thread doodling

“I love the process of stitching for its own sake. Saving these jeans from the rag bag had special meaning for me, as I am an advocate of slow fashion and mindful use of the limited resources our planet has to offer.”

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Lucy Fitzpatrick

San Francisco, California

Alphabet Bunting

Cotton embroidery on handkerchiefs

I had been collecting monogrammed handkerchiefs for this alphabet bunting for my daughter’s nursery, but certain letters were hard to find. I embroidered 12 of them on handkerchiefs or linens. Can you guess which ones I embroidered and which I collected?

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Sara Pernigo

Torbiato di Adro, Brescia, Italy

Cucù

Cucito, punto croce

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Rosa Iris Acuña

Alajuela, Costa Rica

Happy Summer

Openwork hand embroidery, crochet, hand sewing

“What is trash for some people is treasure for others.”

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Rosio Torres

Lake Balboa, California

Doll Blanket from Recycled Knitted Blocks

“This is the product of recycling 9 knitted blocks which had been placed on a pile to be thrown in the trash. I used whipped stitch to put them together and made a small doll blanket.”

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Rémy Minniti

Vizille, France

Dreaming

Hand embroidery, machine sewing

“amateur”

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Peggy Ichinose

Fremont, California

Grandma’s Roses

Surface embroidery, appliqué, beading, goldwork, FabMo fabric

“Inspired by Grandma who was a seamstress and artist –– she never wasted a thing and reused everything. She loved silks and velvets, and her favorite descriptors were ‘divine’ and ‘elegant’. She painted, drew, and made wonderful dresses. She made beautiful things from L’eggs eggs, cottage cheese containers, and Styrofoam balls. She was a force.”

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Nina Burnsides

New Braunfels, Texas

Tattered treasure

Hand sewing

“This started life as a tablecloth that belonged to my mom. It was used on special occasions. One side was badly damaged when their basement flooded. Instead of throwing it away, I made this little dress from it for my granddaughter.”

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Mickaël Pinto

Grenoble, France

Butterfly and Rose

Hand embroidery on tulle, machine embroidery

“amateur”

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Meret Piderman

Petaluma, California

Love Your Mother (Earth)

Hand embroidery on Ivy leaves

“Sustainability is required if we want to continue life on this planet as we know it. Re-use, mending, and repair is a must not only for our material world but also our natural world. If we don't honor and revere our natural world as well, we will lose it. This piece is a reminder to take care of Mother Earth.”

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Melanie Walas

Lafayette, California

Kitchen Icon

Sewing, hand embroidery

“This piece is part of a series I'm doing, embellishing items found in thrift stores and giving them a new, cherished status. It incorporates scraps from sewing projects from the past year or so, and in doing so endows the piece with memories and history to add to its former coffee-making life.”

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Meher Bharucha

Sunnyvale, California

Upcycled Dragonfly Bag

Machine sewing, hand embroidery

“The bag body was constructed using fabric salvaged from an old pair of trousers. The bag lining and strap were constructed from a 2015 kitchen calendar and the patch was retrieved from a discarded fabric sample book. The dragonfly was embroidered using beads and ribbon left over from jewelry projects.”

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Marsha Schuld & Bev Biggeman

Rush Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada

Saskatchewan River Hills

String art, needle felting, hand embroidery, collage

“This is a collaborative piece. It started with a key deck from an old dismantled piano. The two of us wondered what we could make of it. The piano pegs were left on the wood spoke of string art so that the sky, hills, and river were laid out in string art (Bev Biggeman), then enhanced with embroidery, needlefelting and a couple of piano key scrimshaw bits. (Marsha Schuld) Enjoy!”

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Margaretta Darnall

Oakland, California

Garden Jacket

Patchwork

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Marcia Cary

Woodland, California

Art History Quilt

Stamped printing, appliqué

“This quilt began as a piece of fabric for an African art history class taught by the late Dr. Daniel Crowley at UC Davis (c.1987). I researched Adinkra cloth from Ghana, made stamps and printed with commercial dyes. Recently I decided that I really didn't want to throw it out and began to use patchwork appliqués and other bits of printed cloth with various techniques to cover holes.”

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Liz Ozselcuk

El Cerrito, California

Paste Paper Sampler

Paste paper technique on fabric scraps, foam board stamping, freestyle embroidery, couching, appliqué

“A while ago I experimented with ‘paste paper’ technique and stamping on fabric, ending up with several scraps in a blue-orange theme. I decided to preserve my samples by stitching them (using some Kreinik Challenge threads) onto the leg of a worn-out pair of pants. I have been saving pants like these because I love using the neutral colors as background fabrics. I used a branch to hang the work.”