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Ceramics + embroidery = awesome

August 25, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

MarieE of colored thread is stitching on bricks! She created the surface for her stitchery in a summer ceramics class. She says,

I threw slabs of red clay, scored and tore them down to brick size, notched a hanging depression in the back and then used a needle tool to poke LOTS of holes through the clay. Everybody thought I was being crazy.

Oh, yeah. I love that kind of crazy. The pieces will become an art installation at an art-educators show. Find out more about her technique from her blog post.

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