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Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there
In those days, it was the permanence of the thing that gave me pause. To mark this body, for all time - too great a commitment to inflict...

Tamanna Rahman


Unleashing Creativity Through Embroidery: Exploring Ideas, Emotions, and Experiences
In my daily work as a psychiatric provider, I tend to focus on narrative: guiding each person I work with in crafting a story of how they...

Tamanna Rahman


Slow Work Sewing: A Tiny Manifesto
People tend to assume that Slow Work Sewing means doing things very, very slowly - but really, nothing could be further from the truth. I...

Tamanna Rahman


Marled Yarns
In January I'll be starting the Bouquet sweater by Junko Okamoto as part of Allyson Dykhuizen's winter class. This is my second class...

Tamanna Rahman


Mixing yarn
As cold weather descends, I am increasingly spending time on my knitting needles. I recently attended Rhinebeck for the first time...

Tamanna Rahman


Botanical embroidery inspiration
With my botanical embroidery course launching soon, I'd like to share some inspiration for dramatically different approaches to botanical...

Tamanna Rahman


Building Fabric
Learning to knit is a revelation for a sewist. Sewing feels like a feat of engineering, a mathematical manipulation of flat pieces that...

Tamanna Rahman


Free Sewing Pattern Roundup!
A curated list of free patterns from around the internet....please let me know if there are others I should add! Closet Core Patterns...

Tamanna Rahman
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