Gratitude: The quality of being thankful. I’m grateful for every sunrise and sunset. Only a few years ago, I was flat on my back and unable to turn over on my own. Divine Mercy saved me through the prayers and kindness of others. To God Be The Glory!

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Stitching Culture Website

Stitching Culture is a soulful, creative journey where fashion, memory, and ancestral traditions meet in the building where I was born, the historical Mercy Hospital on East Green Street in Wilson, NC. The Stitching Culture brand honors the slow process of textile making practiced on Daniel Hill and in East Wilson. It is rooted in the rhythms of the black sandy soil on what was once Contentnea Creek Homeland. It celebrates the creative hands of Doris Jones, Minnie Haskins, Harriett Woodard, Mammy, Fawn (Ann), Mattie Randolph, Mary Burnette, and Grand Mere for the knowledge they transferred to me about regenerative fibers, plant dyes, and sustainable Indigenous textile practices.

Stitching Culture is the heart of the my small business, with a physical location inside the historic Mercy Hospital building where I was born. It’s a storytelling platform, book, and YouTube channel that documents and teaches the living traditions of Indigenous Tuscarora, Seminole, and Gullah Geechee fiber arts. Through video episodes, digital courses, and print publications, Stitching Culture explores how fabric becomes a vessel for memory, healing, and cultural continuity.

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Fiber Art By Carola Blog

Through my studio and brand, Fiber Art by Carola, I create medicine cloth, one-of-a-kind, hand-dyed, hand-stitched wearables and home goods that honor land, memory, and transformation. Each piece is both art and story, a living tribute to the women and ancestors who stitched before me. My creative practice weaves together storytelling, natural dyeing, quilting, beadwork, and hand embroidery, rooted in Indigenous (Tuscarora and Seminole) Eastern Woodlands and Geechee Gullah traditions. | Visit Google My Business for Updates

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Divine Mercy In Action

Studio 104 manifests Divine Mercy and being still while you wait on God. It is my first creative space outside my home. It comes as I surrender all to Jesus. I lost my ability to sew in my Momma’s house. It was only after machine stitching was blocked from me that I became aware of its importance to my mental health. Sewing is my therapy, just me, sitting at my sewing machine and stitching. I experience God’s peace when I’m sewing. I pray that I will never take my need for a creative maker space for granted. It’s a cherished Divine Mercy blessing!

Inside Mercy Hospital & Stitching Studio Before

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Stitching Cloth Studio After
Grand Opening November 29, 2025 / 9 am - 3 pm

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My Creative Process

The first part of my creative process is creating “medicine cloth.” I hand-dye intentional yardage for Pow Wow and Indigenous Fashion shawls, blankets, and quilts, following traditional Southeastern Algonquin zero-waste design concepts. I dye, paint, and eco-print with plants, flowers, nuts, earth pigments, and contemporary textile paints. What makes the cloth “medicine” is following Carolina Low Country Geechee Gullah ceremonial practices associated with named resist design patterns. The final step in my creative process is to stitch memory into the cloth. I aim to reimagine the ancestral mark-making shared with me as markings drawn with a stick on the ground by Howell Woodard. Stitching Culture in the place where I was born is a circle of making, remembering, and creating, where every stitch connects my hands to ancestral creative hands on Daniel Hill, in East Wilson and in the Carolina Low Country, who found contentment in sewing, and an outlet to deal with the pain of living “The Blues.”

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Indigenous Geechee Inspired Stitching Techniques

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Southeastern Woodlands Algonquin Wool Blankets