knotworking

The Fine Hand Embroidery, Designer and Fashion Jewelry and other Art by Jo Adell , founder of The Filaments Project. All imagery and design on this page Copyright Jo Adell unless otherwise stated and may not be reproduced in any media without my written permission. Homepage: www.knot-working.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knotworking

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BettyBoards Foundation

Help Music's Promise spread the word about Betty Boards Foundation!

I donated a suncatcher to help support the Dead’s sound engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson.

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Midnight Pals: Heinous Losers

[mysterious campfire of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i have a new tasssk for you Rowling: and thisss isss one that even a gaggle of buffoonsss like you can accomplish Rowling: i'm looking at you allisssson Allison Bailey: [sweating, clutching briefcase]

Rowling: desspite our iron grip on all the leversss of power Rowling: people sstill think that we're a bunch of weird losssersss Rowling: judging usss for our very normal dessire to inssspect peopless junk Jesse Singal: and childrens junk too, don't forget that mommy Rowling: of coursse i wouldn't forget that jessssse Rowling: inspecting childrenss junk is the most important part

Rowling: as you know, pedro pascal called me a heinous loser Kathleen Stock: a monstrous slur, dark lord! Stock: why, someone should turn him into a blueberry for that! Rowling: Stock: don't you think? i mean don't you think? Rowling:

Rowling: why is blueberrification always your go to thing Stock: i just think Stock: i just think it would be interesting Stock: a big round sexy blueberry Allison Bailey: [briefcase flies open, spaghetti explodes out] Bailey: i'm sorry i'm sorry Bailey: i tried to hold it in Bailey: i really did

Rowling: i want you to start a smear campaign against pedro passcal Rowling: i know that sstrangely our extermination campaign against an unpopular minority hassn't endeared uss to the public Rowling: but i'm certain that a bullying campaign against a popular actor will be different

Rowling: the people will have to choosssse Rowling: who do they love more -- pedro pascal or jk rowling? Rowling: i'm pretty confident Rowling: how could anyone NOT choosse me? Rowling: i made your insssufferable millenial parentss' childhoodss magical, after all!

Allison Bailey: b-but dark lord! pedro pascal... he is friend to all children! Rowling: bah! Jesse Singal: he is beloved all the world over! Rowling: Feh! Kathleen Stock: he would be so sexy as a blueberry Rowling:

Rowling: again with the blueberries Rowling: why are you on about the blueberriesss Rowling: i don't like when we talk about booksss that i didn't write Rowling: you should be talking about harry potter, the only relevant book every written Rowling: which you did read, right? Stock: i Rowling: it was required reading for entry into the circle Stock: Rowling: oh my god did you not read it

Stock: i Stock: i liked the scene with aunt marge Rowling: huh, that's funny, mosst of my terf deatheaterss like the bit with the goblinss bessst Rowling: oh Rowling: oh wait Rowling: oh that's gross Stock: nooo don't look at me, dark lord! Bailey: [crying, gathering up spaghetti] i'm cleaning it up i'm cleaning it up don't be mad dark lord

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The other drawing I started in April, finished.

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I can’t remember last time I picked ip a needle but the Shirt wanted mending. Lots of mending.

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Necklace I re-made for a friend

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Spiral mandala in black, gold & silver

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Hard boiled egg I painted with lilacs for the Glorious 25th of May

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I started two of these back in the winter and poked at it intermittently along with 3 other arts and finally got this one done.

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Drew a thing. Finally.

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Last thing I drew. I have discovered paint.

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It’s a geometry thing. 16.35 hours.

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Should I do unfinished pithy slogans in cross-stitch? People seem to prefer that to the embroidery I do and it is physically and professionally painful to contemplate.

It has to be bad cross stitch on loose weave. This got 0 response. Yeah, I have an ego.

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4 episodes of Lower Decks, cold hands & a dying pen.

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Second two inch embroidered spiral, the color of oil on water. 2” diameter.

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This took a solid week to finish, with many interruptions. Not bad for a first piece in a new technique.

Gilt by Illumination 1

Pilot G-2 .038, Micron .03, gold watercolor. Approximately 10”

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Drew a thing and going to embellish it for a change.

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First step.