While most Colorado creatives turn to the state’s snowcapped peaks or quaking aspens for inspiration, embroidery artist Anna Hultin has a much humbler muse: the open fields near her Loveland home. Her works evoke the things she sees there—namely, tufts of grass, flowers, cows, and more grass. “My desire is to bring wonder into something completely ordinary,” she says. “When you look at the fields in Colorado, there is so much texture…. I see so much beauty.”

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Embroidery in a picture frame on an orange wall
“Open It Wide!” by Anna Hultin. Photo by Sarah Banks

Using traditional embroidery techniques—along with watercolor paints, collaged fabrics, and loose, unspun fibers called wool roving—Hultin creates textured compositions that melt into single strands of thread. In her recently released book, The Stitched Landscape: An Embroidery Field Guide to the Textures, Colors, and Lines of the Natural World, Hultin walks readers through her artistic process and teaches the techniques she’s developed over nine years of embroidery. It begins with observing the land. “The biggest thing I’m looking for in a landscape is movement,” Hultin says.

Get an up-close view of the artist’s works from December 5 to 28 at the Wolverine Farm Publick House coffeeshop and bar in Fort Collins