V In Everything

Category: Textiles

  • The Nature of Creativity and Originality in Art

    I often worry that I’m not very creative. I don’t really come up with out of the box ideas or with anything genuinely novel. I do like making things that are artistic though, which colloquially falls under the “creative person” umbrella. But I don’t think I really do anything new or unique. The thing that…

  • Me (2025)

    While researching open calls and artist opportunities online, I stumbled upon the Fabric Workshop and Museum. It’s located in Philadelphia and having read a bit about it, I vaguely recall seeing it from the street, considering its proximity to Reading Terminal Markets, and wanting to visit, but have not yet done so. In any case,…

  • Crafting a Better World book review

    Crafting a Better World book review

    I originally wrote this post this past summer when I was fully on my craftivism kick. At the time I couldn’t be bothered to look up the actual name of the book or the author or take a photo of the library’s copy of the book so this post languished. I finally have done all…

  • TOO MUCH STUFF

    When my mother worked as a full time artist making art dolls she collected a bunch of fabric, beads, and bits and bobs. When the market for that completely died, she offered me all her stuff. The only things I didn’t take were most of her tools and her clay but I did take all…

  • Sacred Salt

    There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. – Kahlil Gibran I first came across this quote on my favorite place on the internet: tumblr. I thought nothing of it for a long time. I had simply copied the quote in the notes app on my…

  • tiny tip #1

    Putting your foot all the way on the sewing machine pedal can help to better control the speed.

  • The Arts and Crafts of Sustainability

    The Arts and Crafts of Sustainability

    I’ve been thinking a lot about sustainability lately. With all the chaos of the world I’m trying to pick just a couple of things to care about so that I don’t burn myself out. For now I’ve settled on environment. I do trash walks in my neighborhood and local parks. I’ve been putting more effort…

  • Worshiping at the Alter of Mending

    Worshiping at the Alter of Mending

    I’m being wildly dramatic with the title, I know, but the pun potential of “worshiping at the altar” and “alter” as in clothing, could not be resisted! While the tide on this surge of creation is receding, I am still interested in mending and altering my clothing, the least of which because I am bothered…

  • Making, Mending, and Misadventures

    Making, Mending, and Misadventures

    One of my lifelong skills, instilled within me by my mother, who lived in the Soviet Union for a vast portion of her life, has been mending. I have never been great at it, but I knew how to do a couple different stitches and how to sew on a button. In the past couple…