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 ...

As every body is unique, achieving a perfect dynamic fit of garments has to date relied on artisanal tailoring that cannot scale. Machine embroidery can place load-bearing thread in arbitrary patterns ...

LaVilla-Havelin stitches scenes from family stories. Here, she recalls the time she broke her ankle while bird watching at Big Bend and was confronted by roadrunners. Credit: lucialavillahavelin.com ...