Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
@knittedpixel.bsky.social
Designer, creator & dreamer. Insatiably curious human being. Typography obsessed. Things I 💜: music, exploring creativity, photography, books, culture & art.
From/living in 🏴 but love to travel.
I sometimes write stuff here: https://catmcl.substack.com/
From/living in 🏴 but love to travel.
I sometimes write stuff here: https://catmcl.substack.com/
Pinned
Making History
The story of Scotland in stitches
open.substack.com
I wrote this essay primarily on the Great Tapestry of Scotland, but it also reads as a potted history of Scots, our literature, arts & culture, and contributions to science and industry, amongst other things!
I also embroidered the 🦄 - our national animal!
Enjoy: open.substack.com/pub/catmcl/p...
I also embroidered the 🦄 - our national animal!
Enjoy: open.substack.com/pub/catmcl/p...
Late-night #Bloomscrolling. Working on a gift for someone who taught me many moons ago when I lived in Berlin and went to school in Potsdam. 🌹
#TraditionalArt #Botanical #Rose #FlowerDrawing
#TraditionalArt #Botanical #Rose #FlowerDrawing
January 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Late-night #Bloomscrolling. Working on a gift for someone who taught me many moons ago when I lived in Berlin and went to school in Potsdam. 🌹
#TraditionalArt #Botanical #Rose #FlowerDrawing
#TraditionalArt #Botanical #Rose #FlowerDrawing
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Ready to push your chair back and have a little boogie? I thought so 😎
Posted before😉.. The beautiful #Birds at #SuffolkOwls and their version of: 📷💚✨
🎶🦉 Chuck Berry 🪶🎸🎶
🎶💃🏻’You Never Can Tell’🦉🕺🏻🎶
#Owls #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
Posted before😉.. The beautiful #Birds at #SuffolkOwls and their version of: 📷💚✨
🎶🦉 Chuck Berry 🪶🎸🎶
🎶💃🏻’You Never Can Tell’🦉🕺🏻🎶
#Owls #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Ready to push your chair back and have a little boogie? I thought so 😎
Posted before😉.. The beautiful #Birds at #SuffolkOwls and their version of: 📷💚✨
🎶🦉 Chuck Berry 🪶🎸🎶
🎶💃🏻’You Never Can Tell’🦉🕺🏻🎶
#Owls #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
Posted before😉.. The beautiful #Birds at #SuffolkOwls and their version of: 📷💚✨
🎶🦉 Chuck Berry 🪶🎸🎶
🎶💃🏻’You Never Can Tell’🦉🕺🏻🎶
#Owls #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
@manekinekohub.bsky.social I think these ones mainly came from Hong Kong, as my dad spent time living & working there 😊
#ManekiNeko
#ManekiNeko
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
@manekinekohub.bsky.social I think these ones mainly came from Hong Kong, as my dad spent time living & working there 😊
#ManekiNeko
#ManekiNeko
I always enjoy playing with colour. This is a detail of a meditative painting I made back in 2021. Definitely want to make more art this year!
#Vibrant #BlueskyArtShow #Painting #AbstractArt #MakeArtNotWar
#Vibrant #BlueskyArtShow #Painting #AbstractArt #MakeArtNotWar
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I always enjoy playing with colour. This is a detail of a meditative painting I made back in 2021. Definitely want to make more art this year!
#Vibrant #BlueskyArtShow #Painting #AbstractArt #MakeArtNotWar
#Vibrant #BlueskyArtShow #Painting #AbstractArt #MakeArtNotWar
January 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Another #vibrant offering for the #BlueskyArtShow - saw some absolutely stunning peonies at Priorwood Gardens near Melrose Abbey today. 🌸
#BloomScrolling #PeonySeason #Flowers #ScottishBorders
#BloomScrolling #PeonySeason #Flowers #ScottishBorders
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
How’s this for #ThickTrunkTuesday?!
A glorious sequoia, or giant redwood tree, one of a few that stand guard at the entrance to a local woodland here in the Scottish Borders. (I like to visit them regularly and pay my respects 💚)
#Arboreal #Tree #Scotland
A glorious sequoia, or giant redwood tree, one of a few that stand guard at the entrance to a local woodland here in the Scottish Borders. (I like to visit them regularly and pay my respects 💚)
#Arboreal #Tree #Scotland
January 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
How’s this for #ThickTrunkTuesday?!
A glorious sequoia, or giant redwood tree, one of a few that stand guard at the entrance to a local woodland here in the Scottish Borders. (I like to visit them regularly and pay my respects 💚)
#Arboreal #Tree #Scotland
A glorious sequoia, or giant redwood tree, one of a few that stand guard at the entrance to a local woodland here in the Scottish Borders. (I like to visit them regularly and pay my respects 💚)
#Arboreal #Tree #Scotland
Happy new year! I hope 2026 is kind to you all.
I went for a brief Ne’erday walk and found some flowering quince - proof that even in the dark days of winter, there are little glimmers of hope if you look out for them. 🌺
#Bloomscrolling #Blossom #WinterWalk
I went for a brief Ne’erday walk and found some flowering quince - proof that even in the dark days of winter, there are little glimmers of hope if you look out for them. 🌺
#Bloomscrolling #Blossom #WinterWalk
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Happy new year! I hope 2026 is kind to you all.
I went for a brief Ne’erday walk and found some flowering quince - proof that even in the dark days of winter, there are little glimmers of hope if you look out for them. 🌺
#Bloomscrolling #Blossom #WinterWalk
I went for a brief Ne’erday walk and found some flowering quince - proof that even in the dark days of winter, there are little glimmers of hope if you look out for them. 🌺
#Bloomscrolling #Blossom #WinterWalk
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
That's the bells!!
A very happy New year to all of you from me in Scotland. May 2026 bring great things to you. Lang may yer lum reek.
This is an oil pastel painting of Edinburgh Castle.
#HappyNewYear #Scotland #EdinburghCastle #Painting #OilPastel #Art
A very happy New year to all of you from me in Scotland. May 2026 bring great things to you. Lang may yer lum reek.
This is an oil pastel painting of Edinburgh Castle.
#HappyNewYear #Scotland #EdinburghCastle #Painting #OilPastel #Art
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
That's the bells!!
A very happy New year to all of you from me in Scotland. May 2026 bring great things to you. Lang may yer lum reek.
This is an oil pastel painting of Edinburgh Castle.
#HappyNewYear #Scotland #EdinburghCastle #Painting #OilPastel #Art
A very happy New year to all of you from me in Scotland. May 2026 bring great things to you. Lang may yer lum reek.
This is an oil pastel painting of Edinburgh Castle.
#HappyNewYear #Scotland #EdinburghCastle #Painting #OilPastel #Art
Betwixt one year and the next. A strange, yet oddly familiar, liminal space.
#Edinburgh #Scotland #FromWhereIStood #LiminalSpaces
#Edinburgh #Scotland #FromWhereIStood #LiminalSpaces
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Betwixt one year and the next. A strange, yet oddly familiar, liminal space.
#Edinburgh #Scotland #FromWhereIStood #LiminalSpaces
#Edinburgh #Scotland #FromWhereIStood #LiminalSpaces
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
The tender-hearted
have to cover themselves up,
layer by layer.
Wishing you a happy new week 🫶
#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings
#Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin
have to cover themselves up,
layer by layer.
Wishing you a happy new week 🫶
#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings
#Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin
December 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The tender-hearted
have to cover themselves up,
layer by layer.
Wishing you a happy new week 🫶
#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings
#Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin
have to cover themselves up,
layer by layer.
Wishing you a happy new week 🫶
#MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings
#Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.
Hole’s “Live Through This” remains one of my favourite records of the 90s. 💟
Hole’s “Live Through This” remains one of my favourite records of the 90s. 💟
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.
Hole’s “Live Through This” remains one of my favourite records of the 90s. 💟
Hole’s “Live Through This” remains one of my favourite records of the 90s. 💟
December 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Those we love don’t go away they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard but always near.
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
This can be such a hard time of year.
A huge hug to you if you need it, whatever the reason.
Unseen, unheard but always near.
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
This can be such a hard time of year.
A huge hug to you if you need it, whatever the reason.
December 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Those we love don’t go away they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard but always near.
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
This can be such a hard time of year.
A huge hug to you if you need it, whatever the reason.
Unseen, unheard but always near.
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
This can be such a hard time of year.
A huge hug to you if you need it, whatever the reason.
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Tonight’s Christmas Eve moon with a favourite unicorn standing atop the Mercat Cross on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Making this a Moonicorn - see, when you have a mythical beast as Scotland’s national animal we can make up all kinds of shit.
May Christmas be full of love peace smiles & happy memories.
Making this a Moonicorn - see, when you have a mythical beast as Scotland’s national animal we can make up all kinds of shit.
May Christmas be full of love peace smiles & happy memories.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Tonight’s Christmas Eve moon with a favourite unicorn standing atop the Mercat Cross on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Making this a Moonicorn - see, when you have a mythical beast as Scotland’s national animal we can make up all kinds of shit.
May Christmas be full of love peace smiles & happy memories.
Making this a Moonicorn - see, when you have a mythical beast as Scotland’s national animal we can make up all kinds of shit.
May Christmas be full of love peace smiles & happy memories.
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Poem of mine published in the latest Christmas / winter anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Poem of mine published in the latest Christmas / winter anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
#ArtAdventCalendar
Day 23
Think this is one of my favourite drawings of the year.
#tabbyandwhitecat #cats #drawing #charcoaldrawing #catart #catdrawings #monochromedrawings #art #visualart #womenartists #sleepingcat #expressiveart #figurativeart
Day 23
Think this is one of my favourite drawings of the year.
#tabbyandwhitecat #cats #drawing #charcoaldrawing #catart #catdrawings #monochromedrawings #art #visualart #womenartists #sleepingcat #expressiveart #figurativeart
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar
Day 23
Think this is one of my favourite drawings of the year.
#tabbyandwhitecat #cats #drawing #charcoaldrawing #catart #catdrawings #monochromedrawings #art #visualart #womenartists #sleepingcat #expressiveart #figurativeart
Day 23
Think this is one of my favourite drawings of the year.
#tabbyandwhitecat #cats #drawing #charcoaldrawing #catart #catdrawings #monochromedrawings #art #visualart #womenartists #sleepingcat #expressiveart #figurativeart
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 27, 2025
The theme is #Holiday
With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate!
Use both tags to be included in the feed
#art #artists #supportartists #makeart
Saturday December 27, 2025
The theme is #Holiday
With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate!
Use both tags to be included in the feed
#art #artists #supportartists #makeart
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 27, 2025
The theme is #Holiday
With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate!
Use both tags to be included in the feed
#art #artists #supportartists #makeart
Saturday December 27, 2025
The theme is #Holiday
With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate!
Use both tags to be included in the feed
#art #artists #supportartists #makeart
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Maria Chepeleva (Ukrainian Artist, born 1985)
"Her First Snow", 2015.
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#catlover
"Her First Snow", 2015.
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#catlover
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Maria Chepeleva (Ukrainian Artist, born 1985)
"Her First Snow", 2015.
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#catlover
"Her First Snow", 2015.
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#catlover
Happy Winter Solstice, Bluesky friends! ❄️ Always glad to reach this day in the calendar, and welcome the return of the light.
This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow.
#WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow
This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow.
#WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Happy Winter Solstice, Bluesky friends! ❄️ Always glad to reach this day in the calendar, and welcome the return of the light.
This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow.
#WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow
This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow.
#WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow
It’s #OpenHouse for #BlueskyArtShow, so here are an assortment of rather charming wee birdhouses I spotted in Amsterdam this week while visiting my sister! 🪶
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s #OpenHouse for #BlueskyArtShow, so here are an assortment of rather charming wee birdhouses I spotted in Amsterdam this week while visiting my sister! 🪶
It’s #OpenHouse on #BlueskyArtShow this week! I usually share my photography here, but today I wanted to share my mixed media artwork. It’s a piece that’s a hybrid of analogue & digital art: my hand-drawn illustrations, hand-lettering and digital collage elements.
#GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt
#GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It’s #OpenHouse on #BlueskyArtShow this week! I usually share my photography here, but today I wanted to share my mixed media artwork. It’s a piece that’s a hybrid of analogue & digital art: my hand-drawn illustrations, hand-lettering and digital collage elements.
#GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt
#GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful!
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful!
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄
poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
Reposted by Cat McLaughlin 🏴🏳️🌈🏴☠️
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM