DebraAnn Salat

DebraAnn Salat is a hand embroidery artist who has been with Valley Artisans Market since March of 2011.  DebraAnn learned how to hand embroider from her grandmother when she was just a child.  Hand embroidery has been a constant in her life since that time.  She starts with a simple drawing and lets her embroidery needles do the work from there.  That makes all of her pieces one of kind as she follows where ever the needle leads her. 

DebraAnn loves to use variations of color and she has said that her favorite projects are made of tangled up threads where she picks just the right color and then decides where to place it in her work, random and planned at the same time.  She does many different types of hand embroidery, from primitive, to abstract to realism and her favorite stitch is the french knot and many of her pieces feature them.  Debra also writes her own blog: http://www.tanglestitch.blogspot.com. and sells her work on Etsy.