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.
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