Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: creativity

  • So not writing

    Real-world making brings some kind of benefit to a writer. Using actual materials with actual tools provides a different creative boost. So I tell myself. Maybe it’s just writing avoidance. Anyway. The barrel chair. When I bought it more than a decade ago, I thought it was a leather chair. But it was something they…

  • Chickadees for Liz

    Thread painting — using embroidery thread to create images — is a thing I’ve been trying the last three years. I’m starting to get the hang of it. The chickadees are DMC cotton thread on linen fabric dyed using Derwent Inktense pencils. To see the genius artists of this genre, check My Modern Met’s collection…

  • Secret tools

    OK, I have a bone (thread?) to pick with all the wonderful women who taught me sewing over the years. Thank you, of course, grandmothers, mother, aunts, mothers of best friends, etc. Because of you I have been making things, some of my own design, all these years. But why did you introduce me to…