Curio: Oh Sew Nerdy
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 7:11PM Alexa here with your weekly arts and crafts. Since I first posted on pop culture cross-stitch in 2009 the craze has only grown, with new styles and patterns hitting etsy daily; now even a novice can spend some free time stitching Wes Anderson characters. Last weekend Gallery1988 opened its first-ever cross-stitch only exhibition, and it is a great one: a solo show by one of my local heroes Derek Sanchez-Hoeksema, aka OhSewNerdy. Derek stitches about some of his pop culture obsessions from here in corn country, and has quite a knack for blending words and image. Here are some of his movie-inspired designs featured at the show.
After the jump I've left them without captions because guessing the film is part of the fun...
You can see the entire gallery here.
Curio
Reader Comments (6)
lpve these
The Silence of the Lambs one is my favorite. For the life of me, I can't figure out the one with the boxing piano & guns or the one with the tree.
Sean -- those were the two i couldn't get either. so i looked it up (sort of) and i think they're SPRING BREAKERS and I HEART HUCKABEES but Silence is just brilliant.
Nathaniel, I think you're right about Spring Breakers, and I'm not surprised I couldn't guess it since it's one of my least favorite movies of the decade.
I cheated, too, and I think the plant one is actually The Happening. Not sure why anyone would talk about that movie anymore since it's completely awful.
Hey Alexa, I really like your pieces on art and the movies, thank you for sharing your great finds. This one made me think about Stephen Campbell who does great sewn illustrations (rather beauty than film related) which you might like too:
http://www.illustrationdivision.com/artists/stephen_campbell
Thank you so much for the kind words! Super awesome everyone is enjoying the stitches.
The two discussed above in the comments are definitely Springbreakers and The Happening. The happening is really in honor of Mark Wahlberg. But not the real Mark Wahlberg. The Mark Wahlberg that shows up on Doug Loves Movies and puts on the Wahlberg Solution (aka Daniel Van Kirk).