Jan 10, 2025
guyyysss i finally finished this piece! took me over 2,5 years, 124250 stitches, and 180 thread colors. It is approximately 45x45 cm in size!
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guyyysss i finally finished this piece! took me over 2,5 years, 124250 stitches, and 180 thread colors. It is approximately 45x45 cm in size!
I'll admit I never fully got your gripe with shows and movies presenting embroidery as a silly women's diversion but now I've been dipping my toe into it as a hobby I'm like....this shit is SO hard and time consuming and making it look good is going to take SO much practice. I'd bite the head off any screenwriter who even hinted otherwise. I'll go to jail about it but at my trial I'll have a captive audience so who's REALLY losing here, huh?? HUH?!
it is. SO HARD.
I'm terrible at embroidery. it truly is an art form- and like most art conventionally associated with women, it's been undervalued for a very long time
like yeah it's not necessary for survival, but neither is painting in oils, and yet we have a dozen movies (correctly!) glorifying the work of skilled male- and occasionally even female -painters. where's the May Morris biopic?
look at that! Morris designed and made these bed hangings, with assistance from fellow artist Mary Newill! try to tell me that's not art; I dare you!
the overdue update on my perpetua beading design! i’m putting the remainder of the work on hold for now to work another thing, but I do plan to embellish it with embroidery!
finished the applique on my Hawaiian quilt!
it’s an African tulip motif
it’s my first time doing needle-turn applique. now i get to quilt it
Got bored and messed around, found out natural henna powder when made into a thin soupy consistency is AMAZING at dying/staining wool!! I assumed it would do *something* because it dyes skin and hair so well, but I didn't expect such a vibrant color so quickly! I don't know how well it'll last or anything since I'm just getting into fiber arts/textile arts, but like look at this color😍 This is JUST raw (washed) wool dipped into the 'liquid' for all of maybe 10 minutes and rinsed, no mordant or anything of the sort. Needless to say I think the experiment is a success lmao
Tiger for @keefpiee ^_^
Melissa Joseph. Kindergarten Carnival, 2023.
Needle felted wool on industrial felt