VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY

Slapstitch is a one-woman hand-embroidery business run by yours truly, Maggie O’Neil. That’s me right over there!

I started embroidering as a pandemic hobby, fueled by ample free time and a market that lacked any clothing with slogans as angry as I was. At first I was only sewing patches (“Enjoy The Apocalypse” being just as relevant then as it is today…) and graduated onto pillows, dolls, tea towels, shirts, hats; you name it! I’m proud to be a fifth generation Brooklyn gal, and I want that to read in each length of thread I stitch – my visual aesthetic is shaped almost entirely by my growing up one D stop away from Coney Island.

Every Slapstitch piece is entirely handmade; designed, dyed, beaded, embroidered, and sewn in my Queens apartment. All credit goes to my late great Babcia for teaching me how to sew, and for giving me the ‘tude to have something worth saying.

With love,