Hand embroidery · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Embroidery hoop with the words In My Good Enough Era, partly stitched in blue floss on calico.

3rd World
Art

Flowers, rhinestones, and things people actually say — stitched by hand onto cloth that already had a life.

The work

Calico in a yellow hoop reading In My Good Enough Era, the top two words finished in pale and mid blue, the rest still traced in green pen.

In My Good Enough Era

  • GroundCalico, in a 7″ hoop
  • ThreadCotton floss, two blues
  • StitchSatin fill on drawn letters
In progress
Blue cotton panel embroidered with the word Fucktastrophy in mulberry, framed above and below by rows of small flowers with rhinestone centers.

Fucktastrophy

  • GroundSalvaged blue cotton
  • ThreadCotton floss, mulberry and garden colors
  • ExtrasSequins and rhinestone centers
Finished
Denim cuff covered in small embroidered flowers in yellow, coral, lilac and orange, each with a sequin or rhinestone center and green stems.

Denim Cuff, Flowered

  • GroundWorn denim, hem to hem
  • ThreadCotton floss, mixed garden colors
  • ExtrasSequins and rhinestone centers
Finished

3rd World Art is a recycle, reuse and repurpose materials creation by Artzy4u.com.

Old sheets, cut-off jeans, thrifted cotton. The flowers come from the same needlework people have always done at kitchen tables; the words come from how the day actually went. Every piece is stitched by hand, one at a time, which is why there is exactly one of each.

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