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Contemporary fiber artist formerly known as @stolenfromthemuses 🧵 Embroidery and crochet portraits. Expect other crafts too

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Slow progress is still progress. #crochetportrait #crochetart #freeformcrochet #threadcrochet #crochetpainting #crochet #fiberportrait #textileart #fiberartist #vintagethreads #portrait #portraitartist #contemporaryartist #galleryart #expressiveportraiture #slowlife #threadhappens #classiccinema #hollywood #gretagarbo (at Adliswil, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqK8q6OtGVD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Procastrination. That’s the only excuse I have for having Pippi Longstocking laying on the desk for weeks, waiting for her hair to be braided… Today I finally made the second missing braid, took pictures and… voilà! Pippi Långstrump is finally done! #crochetportrait #crochetart #textileart #freeformcrochet #portrait #threadcrochet #portraitartist #fiberartist #crochet #vintagethreads #contemporaryartist #galleryart #slowlife #threadhappens #PippiLångstrump #PippiLongstocking #PippiCalzaslargas #fiberportrait #crochetpainting @pippiandfriends @astridlindgrenofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAqZQrNJNJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thanks for everything 2022 and people in my life who made it special. If you are reading this, you trusted me algorithmically or somehow and this people is you: thank you for being here. 🥰 And now, ready for 2023 with a lot more learnt, works in progress and new and exciting things to come. Happy new year!! 🎉🎉🎉 #artvsartist #artvsartist2022 #bestnine #bestnine2022 #threadhappens #fiberart #portrait #crochetpainting #crochetportrait #embroideryportrait https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1whMUtNHz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pippi Långstrump. Work in progress. #crochetportrait #portrait #fiberartistsofinstagram #fiberartisart #vintagethreads #portraitartist #pippilangstrumpf #pippilongstocking #pippicalzaslargas #microcrochet #fiberart #sweden🇸🇪 @clovermfg https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck8kbZ-tgMU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🕰 Throwback Thursday! 🏔 These lasts weeks, between birthday holidays in Sweden and dog-sitting Mia (my brother’s 4-legged baby) in Switzerland (with daily excursions of avg. 14 km! 😱), I haven’t produced much. 🧵 I have several embroideries and crochet portraits in the works, but nothing really shareable yet here. 🪡 So today I decided to post an old piece that I haven’t shared in this account before, and make a #throwbackthursday post. 🥰 This embroidery on tulle is the piece that told me that what I really love to make are portraits. 👉 I made this portrait as a class project for @kathrin_marchenko course. And I must mention that I took reference from Assassins Creed character Kassandra’s portrait by artist @holepsi ❤️ I love how the shadows it projects in the wall change her expression. #contemporaryembroidery #needlework #embroideryart #dmcthreads #threadpainting #needlepainting #modernembroidery #stitchersofinstagram #tulleembroidery #hoopart #embroiderersofinstagram #broderie #bordadoamano #embroideryartist #portrait #embroideryportrait #threadhappens https://www.instagram.com/p/CgATNY7t_3e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Crochet portrait of the young Swedish environmental activist @gretathunberg 📸 When we planned my birthday trip to Sweden, I decided to bring several portraits of iconic Swedish women and take pictures of them there. I only finished one of them on time, but I took hundreds of (horrible, as you saw in my previous reel) pictures of her while in Stockholm. 🧥 Although #gretathunberg is already a grown up woman and possibly fed up with this image of her, I think that the child with two long braids in a yellow raincoat and defiant look is engraved in our minds, and therefore, iconic. 🧵 I did this crochet portrait with vintage threads of the lost Spanish brand Dalia by Fabra y Coats, now owned by @mez.fabra (if I’m not wrong), and @tulipjapan_official ergonomic crochet hooks (a game changer from my old steel crochet hooks!). #crochetportrait #fiberportrait #crochetart #textileart #freeformcrochet #portrait #threadcrochet #crochetpainting #portraitartist #fiberartist #crochet #vintagethreads #contemporaryartist #galleryart #slowlife #threadhappens (at Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuL5fILw7N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🛄 When I planed my trip to Sweden I made a list of iconic Swedish women to make a crochet portrait of them. My final list of “of course I will have finished them to bring them to Sweden” had 3 women, but as my mind works a bit like “hey, look, a squirrel!”, I only finished Greta Thunberg (finished pictures soon, promise!) in time before the plane took off 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🧵Anyway, I took an assortment of thread balls and my Tulip crochet hooks kit, just in case I had time to make one of the other portraits while here. 🇸🇪 On my first day on Stockholm, though, I realized that I forgot to put in the list who probably was the most iconic Swedish character and undoubtfully a referent of my childhood. She was in all souvenir shops, side by side with Moomin and the vikings!! How could I forget of her! 👧🏼 That first night in the hotel I made a quick sketch of her TV impersonation (closer to me than the illustrated book character that’s everywhere here) and chose the thread balls in my pencil case that could work better with her portrait. I have a very limited color palette and a really small quantity of orange thread, but I will try it! I don’t think I will finish it before leaving the country, but let’s start it at least! ❓Tell me, which iconic Swedish women would you have put in the list? Can you guess my other 2 choices? They will be made soon… oh, look, another squirrel! 🐿 #crochetportrait#crochetart #textileart #freeformcrochet #portrait #threadcrochet #portraitartist #fiberartist #crochet #vintagethreads #contemporaryartist #galleryart #slowlife #threadhappens @tulipjapan_official @mez.fabra #PippiLångstrump #PippiLongstocking #PippiCalzaslargas #ballpointpen (at Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRsKIvtS3X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🧵 Crochet portrait. WIP. Will I finish this crochet portrait before leaving to Sweden by the end of this week? 🤔 📸 I would love taking pictures of her in Stockholm. Do you know why? Is she recognizable yet? ✏️ Let me know in comments if you guess it! #crochetportrait #fiberportrait #crochetart #textileart #freeformcrochet #portrait #threadcrochet #crochetpainting #portraitartist #fiberartist #crochet #vintagethreads #contemporaryartist #galleryart #slowlife #threadhappens @tulipjapan_official @mez.fabra (at Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCJx5KNFcQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Jordi and Mia. Double exposure embroidery at Swiss Alps. If you didn’t watch until the end of my last reel, this is how it looks. Threadpainting of a Swiss landscape and embroidered portrait of my brother and his dog Mia. 19cm hoop, thought it will get a fancy framing sometime “soon”. #threadhappens#contemporaryembroidery #portraitembroidery #threadpainting #tinystitches #dmcthreads #miniatureart #natureinspiredart #stitchersofinstagram #stitchedartisart #embroideryartwork #embroiderersofinstagram #broderie#embroideryartist #textileart #slowlife #DentsduMidi #LesDiablerets #SwissAlps #Vaud #Switzerland #VillarssurOllon #Bretaye (at Villars-sur-Ollon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyoXeJtYyC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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📆 In celebration of ballpoint pen day today, let me share the embroidery I made for @mostlymaths birthday back in February. 🪡 This is the original László Bíró’s 1938 patent for the ballpoint pen that he submited before leaving Hungary and emigrating to Argentina. Later he improved the design, filled newer patents, and ended by selling his patent rights to French businessman Marcel Bich, who in 1950 launched Bic Cristal, today’s best-selling pen worldwide. 📸 I don’t know if the Bic/Vic pun makes any sense in English (in fact it shouldn’t make sense in well-pronounced Catalan), but I took this picture when we visited the city in February and it was fun for us. #ballpointpenday #ballpointpen #contemporaryembroidery #patent #threadhappens #contemporaryembroidery #tinystitches #dmcthreads #stitchersofinstagram #embroideryartwork #embroiderersofinstagram #broderie #textileart #embroideryartist #industrialdesign #industrialdesignart #vic #bic #bicballpointpen (at Vic, Cataluna, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeoV80AN_8N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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📸 Close up! 🪡 Let me share a little bit of my Swiss-inspired WIP embroidery. I came to Switzerland prepared for all odds: 1️⃣ What if I want to needlepaint a portrait of Marilyn with a bird? Bring the portrait! 🦜 2️⃣ What if instead I feel the urge to embroider big strokes in tulle? Bring the tulle! 🎨 3️⃣ And what about the my personal project to translate to thread zoological illustrations of Sixteenth to Eighteenth-century? Take lots of little scraps of cotton fabric and the green thread! 📖 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔢 Don’t forget the Íñigo Montoya hoop, the materials for this new workshop you are enrolled in and the two crochet portraits in progress… pss, and take the threads for a new one just in case! 🙈 🏔 What happened you say? On the first day I got inspired by the landscape, the bright blue sky and hiking the Swiss mountains. 🧵I’m still amazed that the “limited” (ehem… define limited, says @mostlymaths ) palette I brought with me for the other projects - mainly portraits - is perfect and enough for this landscape embroidery. I can’t wait to share the complete embroidered piece with you! #threadhappens #contemporaryembroidery #threadpainting #tinystitches #dmcthreads #miniatureart #stitchersofinstagram #embroideryartwork #embroiderersofinstagram #natureinspiredart #broderie #embroideryartist #textileart #slowlife #SwissAlps #Vaud #Switzerland #portraitembroidery #dentsdumidi #villarssurollon #bretaye #stitchedartisart (at Villars-sur-Ollon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CegoUEMNK6H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Stitching with views. 📸 by @mostlymaths Hoop holder by @milnovecientos40 #threadhappens #embroideryartist #modernembroidery #contemporaryembroidery #portraitembroidery #broderie #natureinspiredart #embroideryartisart (at Villars-sur-Ollon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWXOOGKNYe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Face done! 🪡 Will I finish it this week? What do you think? #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #portraitembroidery #portrait #wpap #embroideryportrait #textileportrait #portraitartist #contemporaryart #thimoteechalamet @tchalamet #satinstitch (at Dune-Arrakis the Desert Planet) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdn70KtsDUp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thimothée Chalamet embroidery portrait WIP. For the love of satin stitch! I’m basing my embroidery on a WPAP illustration I made on @affinitybyserif Designer several weeks ago. #portrait #digitalportrait #embroideryportrait #textileportrait #portraitartist #contemporaryart #satinstitch #affinitydesigner #threadhappens https://www.instagram.com/p/CdOSCv9sCCh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🧵 Crochet portrait of @anyataylorjoy in @netflix series #queensgambit 🤡 Ready for the drama? [TLTR: @threadhappens is the rebranding of @Stolenfromthemuses… because sometimes, you know, “thread” happens 😅] My first post in this account is the one I was going to post on my previous account before it was closed without further notice. Well, in fact what has been closed is my personal Facebook account: different emails, different usernames, different content -indeed I haven’t posted anything there since… I don’t remember when!- , two-factor authentication,… The only link was that just few weeks earlier I added my personal account as page administrator of the page linked with my Instagram account to have access to my Instagram account through another source in case something happens. 😵‍💫 Until this issue with Facebook gets sorted (and I already accepted that it wouldn’t), I don’t have access to my Instagram account or any human way to open a ticket. 🤬 Dealing with this situation has been a kafkaesque experience, and after going through all stages of grief now I’m finally ready to start again. 💪 After all, I had this rebranding on mind since long time ago. This situation helped me to stop procrastinating 😅 Welcome to my new me. I hope you like what I post as much as before. ❤️ Now, let’s remember the +700 interesting accounts I was following 🤦🏻‍♀️ Would you help me? Tell me in comments who do you think I should follow (again). Thanks! #crochetportrait #fiberportrait #crochetart #textileart #freeformcrochet #portrait #threadcrochet #portraitartist #fiberartist #crochet #contemporaryartist #galleryart #anyataylorjoy #slowlife #resilence #threadhappens https://www.instagram.com/p/CdLkpNIs8QR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=