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 ...

Vera B. Underhill creates a different kind of masterpiece on canvas , Vera Bisbee Underhill appeared as delicate and refined as the Bunka Japanese embroidery she took up 30 years ago as her vocation.

Inspired by what appeared to be a painting of horses done by her daughter-in-law, Stella Marapana began her journey in embroidery, when she realized the ‘painting’ was actually done in thread. “I ...