Book Reviews

  I am a complete and total art book whore.  I justify this with the idea that I really do study them, treasure them, and honor them.  One of my recent purchase was this treasure.

PUSH Stitchery: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Stitched Art

This book has a very diverse group of artists whose medium is stitch and I found something interesting about each one of them.  I have a few favorites include Joetta Maue, whose blog http://littleyellowbirds.blogspot.com/ I follow and Gillian Bates, http://www.gillian-bates.com/default.aspx,
who has these wonderful British seaside canvases she makes using reclaimed fabric and machine embroidery. Here is one of her canvases

I found out pretty quickly that she has an etsy shop, and purchased one of her canvases for a very reasonable price.
If you get a chance, check this book out, it's a real gem