Lucia LaVilla-Havelin

Lucia LaVilla-Havelin uses needlepoint, embroidery and beads to translate her version of the natural and scientific world. Here are some pieces from her LANDFORMS and ECLIPSE series.

Eclipse 1, Drought, 2007

Salt Marsh

Abby Johnson

Abby Johnson is a grad student in the fibers department at Savannah College of Art & Design. Her work focuses on the idea of memory and photographs. Here are some of her studies:

This is a study Abby did for our graduate Stitch class. She distorted dupioni silk by pulling at the warp and the weft, then stitched and wove over the hole she created.

Scott Ellegood

Working with digitally manipulated photographs, Scott Ellegood creates wonderfully dense, stitched portraits.

All the detail and color variation is created using one stitch, the buttonhole stitch! This piece won 3rd place in the Art of the Stitch, the 08-09 International Open Exhibition by the UK Embroiderer’s Guild.

Subterranean

I have recently discovered this work, and I love it!! Images were difficult to come by. Alas, this was all I could find. Enjoy!!

Confluence

His next exhibition, Being Perceived, will run from October 16- January 9, 2009 at the University of Arizona, in Tuscon, AZ. I guess if we can’t see his work on-line, then we’ll all just have to travel to see it.

HAPPY OCTOBER!! NEW DEADLINE!

Happy apple cider and candy corns. This could be one of our wackiest months yet, between the economy and the electLucky you have that stitching project to finish for Stitch Spectacular to keep you sane.

Are you freaking out about the looming deadline?

Oh happy day, you get 11 more days! YAY! Just for you, because you asked, we have pushed the deadline for entries up to October 31. (Mailed entries, which we prefer, must be postmarked by Oct 31, electronically submitted entries must be received by midnight Oct 31).

So, stop fretting, and start stitching.

Go on, get to work!

(Oh, and if you want to see your non-submission work up here, be sure to send us pics or a link to your site–we want to keep your entries private until opening night!)

Aliza Lelah

Aliza Lelah received her MFA in painting from SCAD in 2007, but well before her thesis show, she determined that paint on canvas wasn’t working for her. Trying to replicate the images and evoke the emotion from old family photos, she abandoned the speed of brush and pigment and began sifting through old family garments and textiles. Using these fabric scraps and stitches she recreated the larger-than-life images.

Grace Lister

I found Grace Lister through the UK Embroidery Guild’s flickr page. Grace, a textile artist and teacher, lives in Somerset, England. Grace is your Gran, yes, but she is not doing your Gran’s embroidery. A prolific embroiderer, I can only imagine she has taken the time to sew a needle into her hand to facilitate her work! Check out her photostream, you won’t believe how much is there!

These are all stump work:

A Day in the Country, 2008

Extravaganza, 2008 (detail, below)

Birdwatchers, 2008

Tilleke Schwarz

Tilleke Schwarz, an artist in the Netherlands, creates these wonderful collaged embroideries. The bits and parts are sometimes layered, sometimes juxtaposed and invite the viewer to explore.

Title: Beware of Embroidery

Size: 70 x 70 cm.

Embroidery on linen

I love the way she incorporates the text. There is a story to read and a story found in connecting all the images.

Title: Count Your Blessings

Embroidery on linen

Title: Count Your Blessings (detail)

Embroidery on linen

Title: Mark Making

Size:67 x 65 cm

Embroidery on linen

Minipop Sampler

Kristin, who posts under the moniker Ruby Khan, is a roller derby queen, a copywriter and a stitching diva! After three years of sporadic work and a finishing drive, she finally completed her Minipop Sampler. With 45 different entities cross stitched, from Hugh Hefner and his girls, to the Breakfast Club, to the GoGo’s and the Royal Tenenbaums, there are 99 figures overall, plus one virus carrying bee and a very happy little tree.  Wise RubyKhan also took tons of process photos. We love that. Be sure to check out all of the pictures on Flickr.

Bob Ross and LL Cool Jay

Different Strokes without Mrs Garrett

Kristin’s work is based on drawings by Craig Robinson, an English chap living in Berlin. You can spend a lot of time looking at his Minipops, Lollipops, animation and heaps of other fun at FlipFlopFlyin.

Anna Keck

Using stitching as a tool, Savannah artist Anna Keck explores the ideas of memory and trace. Beginning with the photograph, then creating the embroidery and finishing with an ink print, she follows the degradation of a memory.

Benji Whelan

You may have seen some of Benji Whelan’s work through Pricked: Extreme Embroidery. Here is a bit more of what he does. I especially like the ambiguity of the titles.

A is for

C is for

M is for

P is for

Q is for