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.
A Metrocard swipe buys you a trip on the subway, this we all know. It also lets you board a lumbering bus. Woo hoo. But your Metrocard, thrillingly, can also sweep you into the sky for a bird’s-eye perspective of the East River, Manhattan, Queens, …read more
Flute generally wakes up feeling pretty energetic. A morning stitch face. But this morning, after looking out the window at the dispiriting rain, getting out of her pajamas just felt like more than she could reasonably accomplish. She decided to take the day off. Once …read more
The transition from winter to spring in NYC always feels like a test. Yvonne doesn’t mind January/February weather, as long as it occurs in January/February. But by mid-April, she’s lost some of that bottomless patience for which NYCers are well known. She heads for the …read more
Kestrel is a Broadway fanatic, which requires her to spend a great deal of time in and around Times Square. Like any other native NYCer she has learned how to dodge the tourists and the bedraggled, terrifying, life-sized Elmo who tries to get a photo …read more
Gemma donates some of her time helping out at a Housing Works thrift shop in Brooklyn. It’s her way of giving back to her community. It’s also a nice way to make friends: she and the other volunteers discuss the merits of the donations and …read more
Io is not flashy by nature. Outwardly, she’s quite unassuming: in fact, if you passed her on the street you might not even notice her at all. That doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have a flashy inner life. Here at the Arthur Murray World Dance-O-Rama, …read more
One of the things Delilah, like many other year-round NYC runners, most looks forward to about the advent of spring is that all the drinking fountains go back on in Central Park. This particular drinking fountain, located by the east drive around 100th Street, is …read more
Alberta has been afforded the opportunity to visit the Ella Baker School, an NYC public school named for the African-American civil rights and human rights activist Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986). Ms. Baker played a key role in some of the most influential organizations of the …read more
