On any given day in the District, you can find Meredith Artyukhina brainstorming her next embroidery kit design, or putting together packages for her latest order.

Sometimes, though, she hosts special embroidery events in the city, too.

Artyukhina is the founder of Capital Stitch Co., a passion project turned full blown company with a mission to use embroidery to ease mental stresses and build community in the nation’s capital.

But, by no means are the company’s designs the same as the patterns geared toward those needleworking in their golden years.

“It is not your grandma’s stitching, though we have a solid core of grandmothers who defend us to the death online, and I adore them,” Artyukhina said, underscoring how the embroidery community fully embraced her updated designs. “There wa

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