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toe up magic cast on on dpns? or actual witchcraft?

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I can't use more than two needles…. can you?

sosuperawesome

Embroidery Art and Patches, by Thread Duncan on Etsy

See our ‘embroidery’ tag

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archiemcphee

Today the Department of Creative Cross-Stitchery is catching up with the latest work by Swedish designer Ulla-Stina Wikander (previously featured here), who creates textile sculptures by covering vintage household appliances and other everyday objects in colorful embroidery.

“I find it interesting to see how these objects transforms in a new context; the obsolete, the things we do not want any longer, the old and forgotten things,” the artist says, in a statement. “I give them a second life and although I cut the embroideries into pieces, I still think they look very beautiful, when the objects has been ‘dressed up.’ ”

Follow Ulla-Stina Wikander on Instagram to check out even more of her elaborately embroidered artwork.

[via Hi-Fructose]

textilecuisine

“Kitchen with a hen” textile art

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capricornknits

Would any of you knitters of tumblr be interested in contributing to a knitting zine? I am looking for submissions. Your imagination is the limit. Anything to do with knitting will be considered. Be political, be edgy, be yourself. I would love to see inspiration pictures, free patterns, illustrations, comics knitting tips, poems, pictures, drawings, blurbs, stories or anything you can think of. The only parameters are that it must make sense in a 4.25”x5.5” printed format and should be one or two pages. I would be willing to consider longer submissions. Email me at [email protected] if you would like to contribute or would like a copy of the final priduct. Include your name and insta url or blog url so you can receive credit for your work. Deadline for submissions of the first issue is Monday September 25th.

archiemcphee

The Department of Extraordinary Embroidery can’t get enough of these exquisitely stitched miniatured foods created by Japanese artist ipnot (previously featured here).

“After discovering embroidery from her Grandmother and then being fascinated by the French knot, ipnot has spent years perfecting her hand-embroidery art and today creates “paintings” using just needles and yarn.”

Working with a collection of 500 different colors and shades of yarn, ipnot creates everything from bowls of soup and sushi rolls to fruits and vegetables to chocolates bonbons and more. Each tiny creations is remarkably realistic.

Our favorite piece is this embroidered miniature matcha, which actually looks frothy and ready to drink:

Visit ipnot’s website or follow her on instagram to check out lots more of her hand-stitched miniatures.

[via Spoon & Tamago]

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o,O dayum...

fibrearts

thetaleofthestitch

Adelaide V. Hall was an inmate at The Saint Elizabeth Psychiatric hospital, Washington in 1918. There is only one piece of her work - maybe through it Adelaide said all she had to say. It is a tiny piece of croche’d wool had all her miserable life woven into it, and having externalised her troubles she was content not to say anymore. Adelaide and her eight siblings were raised by their violent alcoholic father after the death of their mother. Adelaide shared a bed with several of her brothers and with her father. Adelaide’s claims of wretched and continuous sexual abuse was dismissed by her doctors as incest fantasies. She was hospitalised at least twice due to depression, ‘melancholia, and so called delusions’. When Adelaide was 13 years old, she went to live with her sister. She fell in love with her older brother and further complicated her life. The love affair was not allowed to continue and they were swiftly separated. She went on to lead a promiscuous adult life and had several affairs with married men where she eventually contracted syphilis. Although she never made anymore pieces of her art, she did make a lot of baby clothes for the children she never had. The croched piece is less than 10 inches square, it contains all the major players in her life and she depicts them according to their importance. Her father is the largest with prominent genitalia, with washers and beads woven in. Various siblings and her mother are featured, identified by a complex system of numbers and letters. This tiny work tells a story of her miserable, sordid life. Adelaide was a victim of her circumstance and of her time. Her ‘stories’ were never believed, and she was never able to receive the help she so badly needed. Without this little scrap of wool, Adelaide would have remained an anonymous patient existing only in the dusty records of St Elizabeth’s hospital.

youleavemeinstitches

how sad is this :(