Punch Needle Workshop
Basic Beadwork on Clothes
Latest News
Exhibit and Class at Las Cruces Museum of Art
Winner of the Joann Minority Creative Grant (2022)
State of the Arts Interview
You can listen to the complete interview at KTEP’s State of the Arts Webpage.
Mas Y Menos will be hosting this Workshop on August 19th at 11:30 AM
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J&M Creations of El Paso will be hosting this Workshop where we celebrate our beautiful El Paso Community!
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Kaffa 128 will be hosting this Prickly Pear Hand Embroidery Workshop on Thursday August 24th at 7:00 PM
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About Me
I started hand embroidering gifts for friends and family.
Honestly, they were pretty bad, but they help me practice and practice and eventually get better with the craft.
Throughout this exploration process, I fell in love with the possibilities of the thread and the needle and started to create more elaborated designs, mixing with acrylic or watercolor painting, beading, appliqués or felt patches from time to time.
Currently I do commission works and teach workshops around my community
If you want to learn more about my journey and my art, see my complete “About Me” page.
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It is a fast paced life. I can barely keep up with it.
But… Mexico siempre en mi corazón.
I will be hosting spooky, fall and pumpkin spiced embroidery classes at the studio and other places, but, like my abuelita use to say: primero lo primero! (First things first!!).
Most of the classes in September will be about Mexico lindo y querido!!
These are the upcoming classes for September:
🪡Flores Mexicanas 1, on Saturday mornings (for those that couldn’t make it on Wednesdays). Learn Tenango, del Pensamiento and Tehuano Embroidery.
🪡Flores Mexicanas 2, on Wednesdays: Jalapa de Diaz embroidery (from Oaxaca) and bordado callejero (from Ciudad de Mexico).
🪡 I ⭐️ EP TX and EP Sunset embroidery classes to celebrate the 9-15!!
🪡Kids & Parents special classes: Ojos de Dios, huichol (wixárika) fiber art from Nayarit.
🪡 Muñeca Lele embroidery project (2 sessions course)
🪡 Bordando mi historia con bordado purépecha (3 sessions course)
🪡 Heart embroidery class inspired on Filigrana Clay.
🪡 Milagros mini wall embroidery class.
🪡 Viva Mexico! Viva TX! embroidery class
🪡 Moon & Sun hand embroidery workshop (ornament or Tote Bag) inspired on Filigrana Clay at @winedownsocorro
Dates, pictures, registration and more details about each of these classes will be available next Wednesday September 3rd.
Thank you so much for your support!!
Y vivan nuestras raíces por siempre!!!
Viva El Paso!
Viva Texas!
VIVA MEXICO!!!🎉🇲🇽🎉
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#handembroidery #vivamexico #septiembremespatrio #mexicanheritage #mexicanindependenceday #elpasotx #elpaso915 #elpasoproud #elpasotx915
I stitched a botanical Utep logo, but didn’t notice it had an awful hole until the very end😫😫😫
So I’m ditching the bag and now I’m turning it into a patch.
But I’m still not sure if I should put it on:
- a better tote bag 💼
- a used backpack 🎒
- a white shirt 👚
- or a black cap 🧢
wdyt? 🤔
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#handembroidery #utep #utepminerpalooza #elpasotx #elpasoevents
Thank you my dear stitching friends for joining me at @vivalaplantshop 🪴!!!!
What an amazing way to start the weekend!!
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#handembroidery #SmallBusiness #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasotx915 #plantembroidery
Workshop prepping… con sabor y puras buenas vibes!!💃🏻🪩💃🏻
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#solodanceparty #artstudiohangs #vibing
🤩 Hey El Paso! Looking for your weekly Hand Embroidery Fix?
🧵 You won`t want to miss my next
In Studio Classes!
🪡 Needle Painting (Strawberry)
🗓️ Thursday August 21st
⏰ 11am - 1pm
🪡 Needle Painting (Strawberry)
🗓️ Sunday August 24th
⏰ 10am - 12pm
🪡 Hair Styles Embroidery
🗓️ Sunday August 24th
⏰ 1pm - 3pm
🪡 Tehuano Embroidery
🗓️ Wednesday August 27th
⏰ 6pm - 9pm
Ocotillo Love!!
This pattern will be available as a Stick & Stitch and DIY kit this Sunday at @suncitydreamersmarket
Super easy to make and easy to fall in love, too.
Designed with mucho amor!!❤️
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#handembroidery #ocotillo #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpaso915 #elpasoproud #bordandofronteras I
I did not graduate from UTEP, but I do feel like an honorary alumni, because many of the great things that had happened in my career have happened at UTEP. Also, it’s the place where I met some of the greatest friends in my life❤️🥰❤️
So I’m super thrilled to be part of this year’s @utepminerpalooza as an art vendor!!!🙌
For this event, I’ve designed some very special edition patterns with all of you Miners in mind!!
So come visit us on Friday September 5th at the art vendors area that will be located at the Fox Fine Arts Plaza.
Thank you @utepgetinvolved for inviting me!!
Arriba los Mineros!! Viva La Utep!!!
💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡
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#utepminers #minerpalooza #elpasotx #elpaso915 #elpasoproud #elpasoevents
This Gallinita Class was so adorable!!!🐔🐔🐔
Everyone was super talented!!
Can’t wait to see the final results!!
Thank you so much @everyday.honey.studio for a lovely class and for sharing your beautiful art at the @cushicushi915 Studio!!
Make sure to give @everyday.honey.studio a follow and check all the classes she’ll be doing in the EP area.
And friendly reminder that we’re still taking registrations for our upcoming Guest Teaching Artists:
🪡 Sat. 08/30, 12pm to 3pm Punch Needle with @pimienta_estudiotextil
🪡 Sun. 08/31, 11am to 2pm, Beadwork on Clothes with @la.dolz
Come and support your fronterizas fiber artists!!
Acá los wachamos!!!
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#handembroidery #fiberart #bordandoando #bordandofronteras #elpasotx #elpasoevents #elpasoproud
Square shaped felt Bookmarks:
a true labor of love in a 4”x4” square.
Each carefully designed with a different color palette.
Each hand cut.
Each hand traced.
Each hand embroidered.
EVERY SINGLE DETAIL MADE BY HAND!!
Like I mentioned: a true labor of LOVE❤️!!
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#handmadewithlove❤️ #handembroidered #handstitched #feltbookmark #feltembroidery
Thank you so much @cindy_gutierrez_krapp for coming again to the studio and sharing your beautiful art with us!!
And of course, thank you @isabelbarraganrealtor for coming the studio for some fun, creative and bonding time with your daughters.
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#fiberart #womensupportingwomen #handembroidery #elpasotx #elpasoproud
Hola friends!!
This is a PSA for my dear friends at @ktep.fm 88.5FM and for one of EP’s most hard working and passionate community givers, my dear friends @marinamonsis
For 75 years, KTEP has been a trusted voice for arts, culture, news, and storytelling in our region—and @cushicushi915 has been part of that story...
I’m super grateful to KTEP!!!
Right now, they’re facing an unexpected $204,592 funding gap, and they need our support to bridge it.
So let’s donate and help our local university radio station!!!
Follow and visit @ktep.fm and @marinamonsis or visit my stories to find the link to donate.
I also encourage my fellow artists and cultural organizations to help spread the word and donate:
@gabaldonart
@aghaahatco
@dr_joseyp
@christin.m.a
@hal.marcus.9
@bravebooks.tx
@imoaep
@elpasoartassociation
@elpasomuseumofart
@therealfitfamelpaso
@elpasomatters
@elpasolibrary
@elpasomcad
@elpasomacc
@ortegtino
@theutepdinnertheatre
@utepcreativewriting
@epcc.papagayo
@marianna.olague
@t.z.hernandez
@stroncoso6
@mysticdesertstudio
@lanube915
@kruxfm
@teatroneplanta
@alessandranarvaezvarela
@adri.mnz
@mlimongarza
@los_actores_eptx
@kids_n_co_official
@the_falstaff_
@super.ultra.nova
@otro_limon
@lemontree_pro
@plazaclassicfilmfestival
We can do this!! Claro que podemos!!!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Ahí los wachoooo!!!
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#BridgeTheGapKTEP #ktep #elpasoproud #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915
Hola!!!
So I recently became a member of the @imoaep
They’re my vecinos!!! Located right across the street from my studio and I just thought this was a wonderful way to support our local art community in central EP.
And so you are cordially invited this Saturday August 9th to the opening reception of “El Paso del Norte PROUD”, an exhibition featuring works that highlight the vibrancy found within El Paso del Norte and its people through art.
I’ll have 2 pieces in this show and while there, you can also check the other 2 pieces I have in their other current show ‘Joy Abounds’.
I’m also exhibiting at the @elpasoartassociation Crossland Gallery on Paisano St in their show “Fresh Faces” and their opening reception will be also this Saturday August 9th from 5pm to 8pm.
It’s a weekend with lots of Art! Mucho arte!!🙌🪡🙌
So hope to see you all!
Aca los wacho!!
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#elpasotx #elpasoartist #elpasoart #elpasofiberart #bordandofronteras #elpasoproud #elpaso915
Not exactly born out of boredom, but also I’ve never been able to just sit and stare at the ceiling 😂
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#handembroidery #embroideryartist #embroidersofinstagram #bordadora
3 de Agosto, 2019
🤍Descansen en Paz🤍
Jamás olvidados!!!
🤍Andre Anchondo, 23
🤍Andre Anchondo, 23
🤍Jordan Anchondo, 24
🤍Arturo Benavides, 60
🤍Leonardo Campos, 41
🤍Angie Englisbee, 86
🤍Maria Flores, 77
🤍Raul Flores, 83
🤍Guillermo “Memo” Garcia, 36[a]
🤍Jorge Calvillo García, 61
🤍Adolfo Cerros Hernández, 68
🤍Alexander Gerhard Hoffman, 66
🤍David Johnson, 63
🤍Luis Alfonzo Juarez, 90
🤍Maria Eugenia Legarreta Rothe, 58
🤍Maribel (Campos) Loya, 56
🤍Ivan Filiberto Manzano, 46
🤍Elsa Mendoza Marquez, 57
🤍Gloria Irma Márquez, 61
🤍Margie Reckard, 63
🤍Sara Esther Regalado Moriel, 66
🤍Javier Rodriguez, 15
🤍Teresa Sanchez, 82
🤍Juan Velazquez, 77
Siempre Presentes!!
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#elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915 #elpasostrong
Today’s World Embroidery Day and to celebrate it I’m doing a brief recap of the CushiCushi915 journey.
It’s definitely been a roller coaster!
A journey full of ups and downs: losses, heartbreaking moments, immense gratitude, mistakes, triumphs, failures, challenges, uncertainty, lots of imposter’s syndrome and joy… over-bounding moments of joy!!
Embroidery gave me certainty and calmness.
It opened me to creativity in a way I hadn’t thought possible before in my life.
It helped me bring back the joy of designing and creating like when I was in college.
It reframed my way of approaching art and made it more open and more free, with less restrictions and insecurities and more willingness to just try again and again and again.
It also brought back one of my beloved things in life: education.
Before embroidery and fiber arts, I used to teach dance. I stopped when I moved to El Paso. And I forgot how much I missed it and how much I love being part of a person’s learning process.
And now, I feel so at home when facilitating a class.
Embroidery helps me stay curious, playful, to keep exploring and to rediscover the love of creating and sharing with people.
CushiCushi915 is more than just art and classes.
Is home.
A safe space for you to feel free and just create while also connecting with others and build a strong comunidad❤️
Sigamos bordando fronteras!❤️🫶🏽❤️
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#handembroidery #embroideryworldday #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasostrong #elpaso915 #elpasoproud
Hola!!
Join @cushicushi915 for a very fun hand embroidery mini workshop at @vivalaplantshop
We’ll be creating a cute snake🪴potted plant (a 3 inch diameter project) with Crewel embroidery, a type of stitching that allows to create cool tridimensional textures with yarn or thread.
Friday August 22nd
From 6pm to 8pm
$40 dollars per person
All materials included.
To register, please visit cushicushi915.com
🪡 All sales are FINAL and NON-REFUNDABLE
🪡 No credits or refunds will be provided for non-attendance and/or cancellations
Let’s get stitchy!!🙌🪡🙌
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#handembroidery #crewelembroidery #embroideryworkshop #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoevents #elpaso915 #elpasoproud
Milagros “con chilitos”🌶️😂 (according to one of my students) came out very pretty and it went to a good home this past weekend!🙌
Thank you all for your support!!
Hope to see you at my upcoming market events:
🪡 Thursday July 31st, 6pm to 10pm: Last Thursdays at @the_falstaff_ / @super.ultra.nova
🪡 Saturday August 2nd, 6pm to 10pm: Crafty Tianguis at @cantareras_
Ahí los wachoooo!!!!
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#handembroidery #embroideryartist #fiberart #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915 #elpasoproud
Thank you @pimienta_estudiotextil for coming to @cushicushi915 and sharing your craft with us this weekend.
It was so much fun to learn how to prep our frames and how to use them to weave. Can’t wait to have you here with us again!!
And btw, if you couldn’t make it to this one don’t worry, Joana will be back in August 30th to teach a Punch Needle Workshop, so stay tuned for registrations!!!
Aca los wachamos!!!
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#loomweaving #fiberart #textileart #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915 #elpasoproud
Hola!!
Stick and ‘Stitch+Thread’ Bundles by CushiCushi915 are now available!!🙌🪡🙌
Only $15 each or 2 x $25 with different designs (made by yours truly of course!!) and embroidery thread skeins in very bold and vibrant colors.
Just stick the pattern to your clean pre-washed shirt, tote bag or any other fabric ideally without any stretch (especially if you started embroidering recently), stitch, rinse with lukewarm water y listo!!
You got yourself a cool hand embroidered design🙌🪡🙌
Visit me tonight at the @oldsheepdogbrewery and tomorrow at @properprintshop
Check my stories for times, y pos’ ahí los wachooooo!!!
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#handembroidery #stickandstitch #elpasotx #elpasoartist
Back to school: fiber artist edition!!🙌🪡🙌
With my “kids” already attending college and high school, I really don’t need to buy much for their back to school.
I’m also blessed to not have them asking me for the latest trends in clothes, tech or shoes because they really just don’t care.
So, this is my first “back to school” season where I’m treating MYSELF to some materials that will help me with my own art projects💪🏽🪡💪🏽
So in a way, I’m the one going “back to art school”🙌🪡🙌
Do you also get excited or have a special love for any material, utensil or anything else that makes you feel like you’re back to learning?!
Tell me about it! I would love to read your comments!❤️
Ahí los wacho!!!
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#handembroideryartist #fiberart #elpasoart #backtoschool #backtocrafting #elpasotx