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Sini Tuulia
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe  路  activity timestamp yesterday

In other news, I've been working on this bit of embroidery for far longer than I should have, and am in the process of unpicking bits of it to redo them...
The bumblebee isn't at all as defined and fresh looking as I'd like, and needs more dimension... But here we are.
Also I don't know how to use my photo editing software yet. 馃槶

#Embroidery

A sort of purple or lilac daisy embroidered onto a bit of patchwork. There's a bumblebee, half finished on it. The leaves are done in two different variegated green threads and leaf stitch, with the stem a multicoloured split stitch. The satin stitch of the flower petals looks a bit bland and flat despite there being a bunch of colours used... On the left side there are two petals with a little more life to them, and a third one with a bit unpicked and showing the area being reworked. It's fiddly. Sini's pale fingers in frame. The colours are all a bit off and lacking the usual vibrancy.
A sort of purple or lilac daisy embroidered onto a bit of patchwork. There's a bumblebee, half finished on it. The leaves are done in two different variegated green threads and leaf stitch, with the stem a multicoloured split stitch. The satin stitch of the flower petals looks a bit bland and flat despite there being a bunch of colours used... On the left side there are two petals with a little more life to them, and a third one with a bit unpicked and showing the area being reworked. It's fiddly. Sini's pale fingers in frame. The colours are all a bit off and lacking the usual vibrancy.
A sort of purple or lilac daisy embroidered onto a bit of patchwork. There's a bumblebee, half finished on it. The leaves are done in two different variegated green threads and leaf stitch, with the stem a multicoloured split stitch. The satin stitch of the flower petals looks a bit bland and flat despite there being a bunch of colours used... On the left side there are two petals with a little more life to them, and a third one with a bit unpicked and showing the area being reworked. It's fiddly. Sini's pale fingers in frame. The colours are all a bit off and lacking the usual vibrancy.
SewBlue
@sewblue@sfba.social  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Only took me 3 years to finish! It is 8x8 inches, 18 count Aida. Over 20,000 stitches/pixels. #crossstitch #embroidery #sewing#StarWars

I picked up cross stitch when sick with #LongCovid. As I got healthy, and ran out of a couple thread colors, I set it down. Did not pick it up until I went on vacation a couple weeks ago, and needed a project. And I finished it!

The pattern designer is Awesome Pattern Studio on Etsy, and they are a Ukrainian pattern maker. Love the use of color and color blocking. Have done a couple of her pieces and they are always striking.

Not sure I will do another all over cross stitch due to the amount of time they take, but I love the results.

An all-over cross stitch design, resembling a tapestry. The design is from Star Wars, and had 2 at-ats (tanks on long spindly legs with wide feet) walking on a beach. In the background is palm trees, the Death Star (that's no moon!) And a moon. The design is in a pixel art style, color blocked in shades of black, blue, gray orange and white.
An all-over cross stitch design, resembling a tapestry. The design is from Star Wars, and had 2 at-ats (tanks on long spindly legs with wide feet) walking on a beach. In the background is palm trees, the Death Star (that's no moon!) And a moon. The design is in a pixel art style, color blocked in shades of black, blue, gray orange and white.
An all-over cross stitch design, resembling a tapestry. The design is from Star Wars, and had 2 at-ats (tanks on long spindly legs with wide feet) walking on a beach. In the background is palm trees, the Death Star (that's no moon!) And a moon. The design is in a pixel art style, color blocked in shades of black, blue, gray orange and white.
Sini Tuulia
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe  路  activity timestamp 7 days ago

And done. The flower at least, still needs the seam embroidery! I feel like I'm getting a handle on this thing.

#Embroidery

A vibrant flower in many hues embroidered onto a patchwork block. It's red and magenta, with pink, accents of purple and lavender, and a bit of orange and orange red. The leaves are also similarly vibrant, done with one subtly variegated olive green thread and a teal green one, with orange accents in the same reddish orange as the flower. There's lights and darks and plenty of overlapping layers. The finish is quite neat and balanced in most parts, with some scattered slightly wonky bits, but overall it looks like "real" embroidery done by someone who has done embroidery before. Sini's pale fingertips in frame.
A vibrant flower in many hues embroidered onto a patchwork block. It's red and magenta, with pink, accents of purple and lavender, and a bit of orange and orange red. The leaves are also similarly vibrant, done with one subtly variegated olive green thread and a teal green one, with orange accents in the same reddish orange as the flower. There's lights and darks and plenty of overlapping layers. The finish is quite neat and balanced in most parts, with some scattered slightly wonky bits, but overall it looks like "real" embroidery done by someone who has done embroidery before. Sini's pale fingertips in frame.
A vibrant flower in many hues embroidered onto a patchwork block. It's red and magenta, with pink, accents of purple and lavender, and a bit of orange and orange red. The leaves are also similarly vibrant, done with one subtly variegated olive green thread and a teal green one, with orange accents in the same reddish orange as the flower. There's lights and darks and plenty of overlapping layers. The finish is quite neat and balanced in most parts, with some scattered slightly wonky bits, but overall it looks like "real" embroidery done by someone who has done embroidery before. Sini's pale fingertips in frame.
Sini Tuulia
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe  路  activity timestamp last week

Yesterday I was unwrinkling my brain with embroidery, and redid this flower at least three times before I was happy with it, and then something clicked and it felt like I unlocked another level on the embroidery skill tree... Anyway, it's not done yet, but I think it might turn out pretty nice!

#Embroidery#Patchwork

Top down photo of an old fashioned shape flower embroidered on a patchwork block. It's done in vibrant mixed hues, and vaguely has the look of traditional embroidery and motifs on folk dress and 18th century inspired nature prints, but due to the colours and background looks pretty modern also. An outline has been backstitched in variegated embroidery floss, in four different colourways, and this has then been partially filled in with chain stitch, satin stitch, straight stitch and split stitch, giving it a bunch of different textures that nonetheless go nicely together. One leaf of two has a bit of satin stitch fill in it, in a vibrant teal pine green, matching the little patch of fabric right below it. It's not a grand piece of art, but it looks fairly intentional and dynamic all in all! Sini's fingertips in frame, she has shortened her nails.
Top down photo of an old fashioned shape flower embroidered on a patchwork block. It's done in vibrant mixed hues, and vaguely has the look of traditional embroidery and motifs on folk dress and 18th century inspired nature prints, but due to the colours and background looks pretty modern also. An outline has been backstitched in variegated embroidery floss, in four different colourways, and this has then been partially filled in with chain stitch, satin stitch, straight stitch and split stitch, giving it a bunch of different textures that nonetheless go nicely together. One leaf of two has a bit of satin stitch fill in it, in a vibrant teal pine green, matching the little patch of fabric right below it. It's not a grand piece of art, but it looks fairly intentional and dynamic all in all! Sini's fingertips in frame, she has shortened her nails.
Top down photo of an old fashioned shape flower embroidered on a patchwork block. It's done in vibrant mixed hues, and vaguely has the look of traditional embroidery and motifs on folk dress and 18th century inspired nature prints, but due to the colours and background looks pretty modern also. An outline has been backstitched in variegated embroidery floss, in four different colourways, and this has then been partially filled in with chain stitch, satin stitch, straight stitch and split stitch, giving it a bunch of different textures that nonetheless go nicely together. One leaf of two has a bit of satin stitch fill in it, in a vibrant teal pine green, matching the little patch of fabric right below it. It's not a grand piece of art, but it looks fairly intentional and dynamic all in all! Sini's fingertips in frame, she has shortened her nails.
Cassian [main]
@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe  路  activity timestamp last week

Posting on behalf of a friend:

Hi Friends- humble request for help. My artwork Landscape with Red Kites is for sale and I鈥檇 love to sell it urgently to fund hospital care for my cat Flash who is critically ill.

Flash is insured with PetPlan but her vet and hospital fees are around 拢3500 now and the insurance limit is 拢4000. She鈥檚 been in hospital for 2 nights and probably needs to stay in til Monday. I also need to fund 20% of the cost myself and will have ongoing costs to manage her condition.

Flash is very ill with ketoacidosis as we discovered too late that she is diabetic. She really, really wants to live and is fighting like the bravest solider. She is showing signs of improvement as she is now eating and standing up from time to time. But still very weak and needs round the clock monitoring of her glucose levels, potassium and electrolyte levels. She is getting the best possible care at veterinary hospital.

My artwork Landscape with Red Kites is an embroidered love letter to the Dyfi Valley, produced as a commission for the National Librady of Wales initiative Celf ar Y Cyd. It measures 10 inches diameter, and is made with around 30,000 stitches. It took 60 hours to make over 3 weeks. It鈥檚 the perfect piece for any proud Welsh interior or indeed for anyone who loves Wales, wherever they are based.

As an artist I have decades of experience in exhibiting nationally and internationally, including in London鈥檚 Yinka Shonibare space. My work has won awards and I have produced work funded by the Arts Council of Wales. You can feel reassured that your purchase represents a strong investment as well as simply being a beautiful creation to bring joy to your home or workplace.

Landscape with Red Kites is 拢2000, which includes international shipping. Please message me to purchase.

Learn more about me, my work and background at https://pennytristram.co.uk or you can message me on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pennytristram) to verify I'm a real person.

Contact: info@pennytristram.co.uk

#embroidery #art#ForSale #handmade#Wales#Cymru
maloki 馃崓:ghostbat:
@maloki@rage.love  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Finished it all today, with some small breaks. And this is why I need to get more #Embroidery floss soon. Visible mending. 馃槄

While I only needed to mend a small part I decided to do it all along the edge for future strengthening!

Oh, I also got to practice how to switch thread 2 times, and make it secure and I think I did pretty good, I made some doubles on the top but it looks quite neat.

#VisibleMending#Mending#FibreArt

The very edge where I switched from one thread to another, basically I slid in hidden thread, doubled one stitch and back threaded across the top the old thread to secure it. The new one binds itself in immediately. It's only double thread for 2 stitches on the top.
The very edge where I switched from one thread to another, basically I slid in hidden thread, doubled one stitch and back threaded across the top the old thread to secure it. The new one binds itself in immediately. It's only double thread for 2 stitches on the top.
The very edge where I switched from one thread to another, basically I slid in hidden thread, doubled one stitch and back threaded across the top the old thread to secure it. The new one binds itself in immediately. It's only double thread for 2 stitches on the top.
Suzanne
@suzannespirit@mastodon.art  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Made this embroidered pendant! I bought 4 of these little flower pendant kits secondhand, just to get started and gain some confidence. Then later on I want to make some designs myself. But this was great fun already!

#embroidery #pendant #CreativeToots #handmade #jewelry #creative #flowers
Sage Sharp
@sphakos@toot.cat  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

This art goes out to everyone who was told, "you're too sensitive," or "stop wearing your heart on your sleeve."

Fuck that shit.

Your feelings are telling you that person is a rude bigoted jerk.

When you repress those feelings, you gaslight yourself into staying in an unhealthy situation.

So fuck every single bully. Feel it all.

#embroidery
#ArtOfSage
#FiberArt

Hand-dyed yarn on cardboard embroidery floss cards. The yarn used for this project includes: - Emma's Yarn "Hot tamale" - Color Camp "KO'ed" - Sweet Georgia Yarns "Dutch" (discontinued color) - Madeline Tosh "Citrus" - Knitted Wit "Orange" - La Bien Aim茅e "RGO tomato" Local yarn stores that supplied the fiber: - Filligree Yarn, San Jose, CA, USA - For Yarn's Sake, Beaverton, OR, USA - Northwest Wools, Portland, OR, USA - Starlight Knitting Society, Portland, OR, USA Special thank you to SCRAP PDX for their used craft supplies, including the white cotton embroidery cloth used for this project.
Hand-dyed yarn on cardboard embroidery floss cards. The yarn used for this project includes: - Emma's Yarn "Hot tamale" - Color Camp "KO'ed" - Sweet Georgia Yarns "Dutch" (discontinued color) - Madeline Tosh "Citrus" - Knitted Wit "Orange" - La Bien Aim茅e "RGO tomato" Local yarn stores that supplied the fiber: - Filligree Yarn, San Jose, CA, USA - For Yarn's Sake, Beaverton, OR, USA - Northwest Wools, Portland, OR, USA - Starlight Knitting Society, Portland, OR, USA Special thank you to SCRAP PDX for their used craft supplies, including the white cotton embroidery cloth used for this project.
Hand-dyed yarn on cardboard embroidery floss cards. The yarn used for this project includes: - Emma's Yarn "Hot tamale" - Color Camp "KO'ed" - Sweet Georgia Yarns "Dutch" (discontinued color) - Madeline Tosh "Citrus" - Knitted Wit "Orange" - La Bien Aim茅e "RGO tomato" Local yarn stores that supplied the fiber: - Filligree Yarn, San Jose, CA, USA - For Yarn's Sake, Beaverton, OR, USA - Northwest Wools, Portland, OR, USA - Starlight Knitting Society, Portland, OR, USA Special thank you to SCRAP PDX for their used craft supplies, including the white cotton embroidery cloth used for this project.
Hand embroidery of a heart on fire. The words "feel it all" are dancing in the flames. The heart is embroidered in shaded short-long stitches, with colors fading from butter yellow at the top through citrius orange. A yellow-pink yarn in back stitches creates a border around the heart. The fire is stitched in jagged running stitches, starting in neon orange at the bottom and growing to tomato red at the top.
Hand embroidery of a heart on fire. The words "feel it all" are dancing in the flames. The heart is embroidered in shaded short-long stitches, with colors fading from butter yellow at the top through citrius orange. A yellow-pink yarn in back stitches creates a border around the heart. The fire is stitched in jagged running stitches, starting in neon orange at the bottom and growing to tomato red at the top.
Hand embroidery of a heart on fire. The words "feel it all" are dancing in the flames. The heart is embroidered in shaded short-long stitches, with colors fading from butter yellow at the top through citrius orange. A yellow-pink yarn in back stitches creates a border around the heart. The fire is stitched in jagged running stitches, starting in neon orange at the bottom and growing to tomato red at the top.