Marie Palmer's desk is covered in a swirl of color — a turquoise sewing machine, boxes overflowing with thread, and acrylic landscape paintings in various states of completion. She sits in her pink ...

Learning how to embroider is easy, and best of all, it’s possible to make a huge variety of artwork with even the simplest stitches. In fact, creating a design to embroider can be more difficult than ...

LaVilla-Havelin stitches scenes from family stories. Here, she recalls the time she broke her ankle while bird watching at Big Bend and was confronted by roadrunners. Credit: lucialavillahavelin.com ...