Embroidery journal
Refreshingly different: embroidered snapshots instead of traditional vacation photos. Singaporean textile artist Teresa Lim shares her album.
The first time Teresa Lim (who works under the name Teeteeheehee) embroidered what she was looking at was while on vacation in Australia. “I was sitting on Cottesloe Beach in Perth, watching the sunset,” she says. “The colors were so beautiful, and I wanted to take a picture, but the battery on my cell phone was dead. I had my embroidery kit with me, and that’s what gave me the idea to record the sunset using a needle and thread. I embroidered the scene on the spot in a couple hours, as a sort of alternative vacation photo.”
Teresa still embroiders nice moments or beautiful views while on vacation, and she shares them in the ‘Sew Wanderlust’ section of her website. “I kept getting the feeling I was missing something when I was traveling,” she says. “Like everyone else, I took a lot of photos. And if the storage on my camera or phone was full, I would delete a few of them.”
