This is my second Kiri, knit in “Gold” Kidsilk Haze for my mom’s wedding. (She did not wear it at her wedding.) The shawl points are missing because I did the wrong bind off, but where the points should have been, there are clear glass beads. I also didn’t do the edging because I thought I could do an extra repeat AND the edging but I was wrong.

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“Call Your Mom” is a public installation I did on the Stony Brook Campus for Unbound, which is part of the Shirley Strum Kenny Art Festival.

I constructed 45 small ramekin cakes out of felt and hung these from the lower branches from a single tree on campus, located outside the south side of the library. The bottom of each cake is embroidered with a piece of face-value advice on small things one can do to lead a more fulfilling life and improve their interactions with others. To wit : “Call your mom”, “Avoid trans fats”, “Say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’”, “Don’t yell.” By using common crafters materials, I hope that my project has an accessible, handmade simplicity to it.

This is the Kiri Shawl! I only screwed up one leaf and it was my first major lace project. I weighed down the shawl points with pink beads and gifted this shawl to my friend Ruchi. Every woman must have a lace shawl I knit another in Kid Silk Haze for my mother for her wedding. She did not wear it at her wedding.