This week I’d like to get personal. My grandma has always had her hands working on some kind of craft and I attribute my hand-made skills to her.

Hello, all. My name is Claire and I am a new member of the Hello Craft blogging team.  I’m always interested in discovering and learning about slightly unconventional methods for making things. What’s even better is if there is a great story or tradition behind that method. So when I came across punch needling while [...]

A great exhibit in the Boston Area… all thread lovers should check it out.

Drawing in Thread: Contemporary Embroidery
March 30 – May 2
Opening Reception on April 8 at 5p.m. with a gallery talk at 6:30p.m.
The Gallery is located in Carlson Hall on the Mount Ida College campus
Traditionally, embroidery is a decorative embellishment made with a needle [...]

The beauty and grace of the hand of embroidery artist Walter Bruno Brix is inspiring. He creates lovely subtle simple lines in thread to explore issues of sexuality, the aging body, and of life and death.
I am especially drawn to his series 42, a series of what I assume might be self portraits of a male [...]

Last week I attended a lecture of the artist Orly Genger, I had not known of Orly’s work before but went after I saw her work online. She was a very petite young women who was surprisingly blase in talking about her art and practices.  I found this both humorous and charming since her work [...]

Box, Hand-woven fabric, embroidery, packaging tape, 2008
Artist Frances Trombly recreates everyday mundane objects through the  labor-intensive practices of weaving, embroidery, cross stitch, and crochet. In recreating a simple ordinary object through these processes and presenting them in the pristine white box of the gallery and museum she forces the viewer to question the value, we [...]