New Year
As a general rule, Resting Stitch Face NYC stays in NYC. We broke the rule once in 2018, with Claudia’s trip to Rome, and here we are starting off the new year by breaking it again. But a chance to do a stitch face photo …read more
Resting Stitch Face NYC
Resting Stitch Face NYC was started by me (Carol Paik) and my daughter (Meredith Slifkin) in 2017.
I started making the stitch faces because I wanted to do something creative without having to sequester myself in a studio, and also because I had boxes full of scrap material that I’d saved over the years that I wanted to use up. Ironically, because of this project I’ve now acquired more fabric than I had when I started, but at least I also now have an excuse. I have a rule that the stitch faces must only be made of stuff that would otherwise be discarded. Each stitch face is a one-off, unique, label-defying individual.
After I had made a few, my daughter, Meredith, who is a photographer and filmmaker, and I thought it would be fun to photograph them around NYC, our home city that we both adore. Meredith initially did all the photography for the blog, but then she abandoned me to go to school and I had to learn how to use a non-cellphone camera. She still insists on editing the photographs whenever possible, and does her best to prevent me from posting mediocre-quality images. Once she left, I was faced with having to go around the city all by myself posing and photographing the stitch faces, which was super weird and not that fun: fortunately for me, dear friends stepped in to help. Resting Stitch Face NYC owes a great deal to all those wonderful people.
Exhibition
Five of the stitch faces just had an entirely new New York City experience: they were Art! Pippa, Charity, Clothilde, Whitney, and Thisbe appeared in a week-long group art show at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea. This was exciting and also a bit of a …read more
Unstuck
It’s always an exciting morning for Maple when she spies the Gum Busters truck. You never know when they’re going to appear, but when they do, you know they bring the promise of a better world. One you may not even have known was possible. …read more
Roma Therapy
Even stitch faces occasionally leave NYC, and after a particularly long, hot, NYC summer, Claudia feels a change of scene would do her good. Here she is in Rome, where, she does believe, the sunlight glows with a certain burnished, aged quality, and the cloud …read more
Aroma Therapy
Clothilde loves her apartment. It’s very small, even by NYC standards, but it has a nice window overlooking a side street which is mostly quiet except for disputes involving parking. Clothilde will hear the honking—it starts in one spot and then spreads down the street like …read more
Milestone
The big reveal: Persephone was invited to a party! Today is Resting Stitch Face NYC’s one year anniversary, and the stitch faces are celebrating. They may not look like a party animals, but they do enjoy a social gathering now and then. Particularly if there’s …read more
RSVP
There’s something weird in Persephone’s mailbox. It’s not a bill, nor is it an advertisement. It’s difficult to read. Persephone thinks she’s heard of this kind of font. It’s called handwriting. Um . . . cursive. It appears to be her name. Should she be …read more
Smelting Pot
On a late summer day with temperatures predicted to hit triple digits, Fern sets off on a mission to visit Queens. Resting Stitch Face NYC has existed for almost one year but has yet to post about NYC’s largest borough, so Fern boards the N …read more
