needlepoint

During an art residency last year in a former castle in the Umbrian countryside, the textile artist Liz Collins sat in her temporary studio stitching a needlepoint.

She gave the actor a “beautiful needlepoint pillow” and they’ve spoken over the phone about their favorite cop shows.

The two also became business partners, opening a needlepoint shop on the Upper East Side called 2 Needles.

Zoe Kurland: Even though the Troy School was different, these learned women still found themselves graduating into a world where they would be expected to cook and clean and needlepoint and smell nice and whatever.

“It Is About the Weight,” proclaims a cushion stitched in needlepoint by Berlin.