This month’s Quick Takes star is absolutely nothing except a celebrity to those people who feel pulled to make things by hand. If you have actually been on Instagram in the last decade, you have actually probably seen Diana Weymar’s work: Under the deal with @tinypricksproject, she hand-stitches quotes both scary and hopeful, unmatched and uplifting onto scarfs and scraps of cloth as a method to witness and keep in mind, distilling the sound of the world into a handmade, physical record.
However political embroidery isn’t Diana’s very first medium. “I grew up in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia without electrical energy or indoor plumbing,” she writes. “At Princeton University I studied innovative writing with Joyce Carol Oates, John McPhee, Russell Banks, and Paul Auster, and I have actually operated in independent film and publishing.” However when she embroidered “I am an extremely steady genius” onto a needlepoint cushion almost a decade back, her art found a new medium (and 155,000 fans); since then, her book, Crafting a Better World, includes the similarity Jamie Lee Curtis, Suleika Jaouad, Roz Chast, and Maira Kalman. As Oprah summarized Diana’s book: “The pen may be mightier than the sword, but, as Weymar and her crafting cadre show, the needle is sharper.”
Today Diana writes in from Victoria, British Columbia, with the books she loves, a film about homes she can’t forget, and– unsurprisingly– inspiring words to live by.
Above: Diana and just a few of her work
. Picture by Yvonne Tnt, courtesy of Diana Weymar. You’re invited to supper. What’s your go-to present? A stitched piece from my collection. I believe it’s extremely essential to give people handmade things. Even writing a note by hand is tender. Crucial. It ends up being an individual message and medium.
What’s on your bedside table?
Dust. 2 framed pictures (among my hubby, among us together) that keep tipping over. Muji pens, Post-its, and books. My favorites today are Wifedom by Anna Funder, Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe, and Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton. And constantly a volume of Mary Oliver’s poetry.
Above: By Diana. What’s your desert island design/art/architecture-related book?
Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Mayhem by Kim Hastreiter, so I could miss out on the things I didn’t have with me and never ever had at all. She is an icon. I have actually remained in her home and seen some of her collections personally. Everything she touches is by design, is designed. Her book is a gift to anyone who has ever felt linked to their art, items, and gathered anything.
What podcast or playlist do you put on when you require motivation?
The Great Women Artists with Katy Hessel, All There Is with Anderson Cooper, and Solutions with Henry Blodget. Who isn’t influenced by art, sorrow, and services?
Above:”Telegraph Creek,”immortalized by Diana in thread. What’s a movie or television show whose aesthetic has stuck with you
? Sentimental Value (2025) by Joachim Trier. I saw in one night and returned the beside see it once again. The household home that is sterilized to sell is heartbreaking. My dad passed away 3 years ago and it’s practically impossible to let go of what homes hold but equally impossible to keep everything. It is all memory and music. Art. There are numerous shots that are frames within frames. Every space is a phase for another piece of the drama.
Which Instagram account do you go to for style inspiration?
Other than Remodelista? I like Maira Kalman (she’s in my book) and Roz Chast (ditto). I have actually followed Debbie Millman permanently and never get tired of her storytelling and design features. I likewise find Ffern Craftsmen Eau De Parfum compelling. I wish to be inside the fragrance.
What has been your finest home upgrade?
A mudroom that could double as a pre-school cloakroom. Leave what you have actually can be found in with behind and go into your house with a lighter load. Likewise, I hate looking for things while hurrying out the door.
Above: Diana’s book, readily available here. My preferred sheets are … Tidy.
3 words that describe my design style:
Sentimental, individual, and intimate.
Very first style love?
The log cabin my moms and dads constructed.
Thanks so much, Diana! Follow her work @tinypricksproject and @dianaweymar and by means of tinypricksproject.com.
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