Since her accidental introduction to “Yarnies”, for want of a better word (and a better word is wanted, folks), Lim has recreated her Australian experience almost every time she travels and every place she goes… it’s a perfect example of making figurative lemonade when life has given you a lemon.
We’ve shown some scenes of Lim’s embroidery as captured by her at their respective times and places. Holding her embroidery in one hand and a camera in the other, Lim could definitely use another hand! From the top down we’ve shown her and her work in Singapore, Prague, London, two locations in Vietnam, and a sheep-strewn meadow near Frankfurt, Germany.
Here she is at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, followed by a twilit park in Amsterdam. Lim has made her travel embroidery a mission of sorts – the series as a whole being part of an ongoing collection of embroidered landscapes and urban vistas which Lim encounters as she continues her exploration of the world.
Called Sew Wanderlust, the series has a beginning but as yet there’s no end in sight… and why should there be? As long as Teresa Lim (shown above) is possessed by wanderlust in the traditional sense, she’ll continue to preserve her travel memories with a needle and thread. (all images via Teresa Lim and WENN.com)

