As in most homes, family portraits map the white walls of Inez Tan’s three-bedroom apartment, where she lives with her video-director husband, Benjamin Siow, 41, and their two children, Miya, six, and Tyler, three. But unlike most families’ portraits – smiling selfies or studio set-ups – theirs are created by Tan with needle and thread, based off her daughter’s doodles. Decidedly artisanal – and if you like the idea, she can do the same for you, too.
Tan, 41, is an embroidery artist with her own label, Inez Designs. She spends up to seven hours a day at a makeshift workstation in her bedroom, producing what she calls “colourful, bohemian, eclectic, with a touch of kitsch” embroidered works. She first sketches them – they are either customised projects or one-of-a-kind…
