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Located in the Lily Loom House @penlandschool 🧵🪡

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@artyouhungry approaches embroidery with a painter’s eye, building figurative portraits through layers of color and texture.

In the Penland textiles studio, students learned how stitch direction can create form and texture, how colors can be matched and blended, and how felted wool roving can add dimension to embroidered works.

It was a delight to learn with Nneka (@artyouhungry) and to watch each student make the process their own. Embroidery asks you to slow down and pay attention: four days of stitching, experimenting, learning something new, and enjoying the first views of fall from the studio.

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another trip up the mountain to meet old + new friends and to learn things about myself I’ve forgotten

thank you @paolo_arao for the invitation to join you again in Lily Loom 🫶

‘Take A Chance’ was a whirlwind short session in which we used dice to guide creative decision making through drawing

I mostly drew, rested, and drank lots of banquet

swipe to see the charmera pics ft our collaborative weaving 🥲🕸️

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I am incredibly proud of all the work that the students in my workshop made this past week @penlandschool

I’m lucky to have worked and shared space with such a thoughtful, engaging, and wonderful group of people. The atmosphere of curiosity and experimentation and taking chances was a pleasure to be around 🎲

I want to extend a very special and heartfelt thank you to the brilliant artist @kimberly__english for agreeing to be my studio assistant again! 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

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I learned to sew last spring as an exercise in zooming into materiality… to move my creative practice from the mostly conceptual and 2-dimensional to something tactile and precise. A challenge for myself and my big dumb fingers. A return to making physical art after a long time away.

Working with textiles has taught me so much about mutability and permanence, what is essential and what can be altered. In 2025, a series of physical and mental health crises led me to rip out all the seams that held my life in place – including my relationship, my home, and my career. The fabric of self was all that remained. Since that time, I’ve been making clothes that evoke my experience through this change and tumult – raw edges and holes, shapes that defy expectation and sometimes physics. Comfort club-wear to cry in. Mesh as a portal and a barrier.

This summer I built myself a residency at @PenlandSchool of Craft and got to be one with fabric under the tutelage of the brilliant @homebodytextiles and @blkshe for a month. Here’s just a few of the things I made and some process pics. Thank u everyone ♥️ more 2 come

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The best clothes are the ones you make yourself.

Jessica Gatlin’s (@blkshe) workshop, Suit Yourself, was about discovering what’s possible with found textiles, existing garments, and a little ingenuity.

This amazing Barbie shirt was made by Mary from a blanket and spent the week making really intense eye contact with the class. It ended its time at Penland by closing out our end-of-session scholarship auction on a perfect note.

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Big thanks to @blkshe for sharing so much hard-won knowledge, and congratulations to all the students on a job well done.

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Some amazing garments were sewn, but the real beauty came from the amazing people I got to share these special moments with @penlandtextiles
@penlandschool
@tamarasewing
@lulubellle
@maria.cazzato.art

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Part I of II (I think?)🧵✨

A few highlights from the recent workshop I took @penlandschool . What a privilege to learn natural dyeing and printing methods from the amazing Emily and Sarah Parkinson @homebodytextiles . The experience demystified so many timeless processes that I had long been curious about. Thanks for lifting the veil.
And what an awesome group we had in upper textiles! Loved getting to know and be around some fine printmakers and dyers from around the country⚡️⚡️⚡️(many of them are not on Instagram *hence untagged* and good for them🤘). Lots of laughter and wonder in the studio each day. I will be tapping this new well of knowledge and perspective for years to come.

Special thanks to Amy for some of these studio shots 🫶 and big thanks to Penland for the financial support that allowed and encouraged me to make this venture. I plan to be back! #textiles #naturaldyes #screenprinting #northcarolina craft

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Penland week 1 has been a dream 🧵

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More tootling with @francis.ceramics🦋
It is hard to describe in few words what I carried with me from our recent @penlandschool experience. Mind-expanding, stimulating and exhausting. But, I would do it all over again! Bye for now. . .🐝🐝🐝
@penlandtextiles @penlandbooksandpaper #bookbinding #organicdyeing #quilting #papermaking

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I can’t believe I get to sew with this view for two weeks! @penlandschool @penlandtextiles

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It’s been well noted to my friends and family that Brant Lake, NY is my favorite place in the world. But @penlandschool you are second. It’s the incredible 420 acres of property and 16 various studios but it’s mostly the community and collaboration that gives me life.
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Shout out section:
- @lesley.darling.fiber my lower textiles studio assistant bud and mental health support.
- @j_whyy my sister in law and brother Brian for picking up my calls and requesting all the photos and stories.
- @eguil13 my sister in law for the daily check ins, support and amazing care package.
- @danimalcrackerz my best bud for checking in as well and asking for photos of my project and reminding me it’s okay to be emotional and missing my husband.
- @jawschulz my roomie making me feel comfortable as well as everyone else he talked with.
- @ekparkinson and @sarah__parkinson my insanely talented, supportive and fun instructors/friends.
- @displacedak and @themorethingss for listening to my Eddy stories, games and post studio hangs with snacks and wine.
- @__flowersoup__ the best studio coordinator ever. Thanks for making my job so much easier.
- To my studio assistants who inspired me with their work and asked me to tell my favorite stories of Eddy.
- To my classmates for being patient with me and being so damn creative through this workshop. So proud of what you all created in just two weeks.
- Lastly to my late husband and love of my life @eddviana who continues to inspire me from the clouds and stars above. Love my buds, miss you more.

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Last month, right after graduating, I had the amazing opportunity to take @johnpaulmorabito weaving beyond the binary class at @penlandschool , I cant describe how incredible this experience was. From discovering whats possible with a loom, working day in and day out in the beautiful weaving studio facing the mountains, and meeting amazing crafters and artists, this trip was a much needed reset. Thank you to all who made this such a great time, especially John Paul for hosting such an eye opening course with the assistance of @jesseesatt . I hope to be back in the mountains soon ⭐️

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