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pardalote
@pardalotemakes.com
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I make strange textile things: birds, beetles, embroidery, oddities and weirdlings. I live in Vic, Aus. I have a little online shop and some workshops: https://bio.site/pardalote
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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · Oct 18
New shape! A small plummy purply shape I finished today as a kind of colour test. I wasn't sure if it would be okay with a white edge, but I think it works.

Already stitching the next one :D

#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint
Four stitched shapes on a white background. Each shape is a soft arched D shape with a geometric pattern in different colours.
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When I'm working on a new piece, I often create a 'side cloth' where I can do a few quick stitches to try out a colour, stitch or thread. It really helps me make decisions and not have so much unstitching.
Do you sample as you work?
#embroidery #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint #sampling
Mesh canvas with sampled needlepoint stitches in various colours and threads. Mostly letters, but also some grids of crossed stitches.
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Some of my favourite makes from 2025
#beadwork #embroidery
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Sampling for a new series maybe. A thought that's been brewing for a while.
#embroidery #textiles #handembroidery #needlepoint #canvaswork #words
A photo showing needlepoint samples in the foreground. The stitching is of block letters in different colours. The background shows graph paper with lettering sketched out in coloured pencil. Scissors and threads are stacked up on top of the paper.
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Some of my favourite stitches.

#handembroidery #embroidery
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Some roundish stitched objects
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Felt like some green this morning. So playing around with arranging some of my small pieces of stitching and paper again. This makes my mind happy.

#handembroidery #textileart
A handful of small stitched and paper objects on a white background. The objects are in various shapes and forms, and all in tones of green. They are laid out between two larger stitched objects that we only see the edges of.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I finished this green shape, and it’s now edged with a thin border of crochet in white thread.

#embroidery #textileart #crochet
A long embroidered shape, rectangular with rounded corners. It’s stitched mainly in greens with a strip in the right in pale grey. Many of the stitches are square.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Loving these stitch structures.

#embroidery #handembroidery #textileart #canvaswork #needlepoint
Embroidery in purples and blues, geometric patterns on gridded fabric.
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The moon I embroidered for my brother a few years ago. It's based on a photo he took. It's appliquéd fabric in white, grey, metallic, that I then covered with stem stitch circles, and french knots.

#mandembroidery #embroidery #textileart #moon
A detailed and textured embroidered half-moon which has been stitched onto black fabric. The moon's dark side is rendered in black thread, while the craters and rocks are distinguished through circles of white and metallic and French knots. A detailed and textured embroidered half-moon which has been stitched onto black fabric. The moon's dark side is rendered in black thread, while the craters and rocks are distinguished through circles of white and metallic and French knots. A detailed and textured embroidered half-moon which has been stitched onto black fabric. The moon's dark side is rendered in black thread, while the craters and rocks are distinguished through circles of white and metallic and French knots.
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A few years ago I made this stitched paper piece inspired by butterfly wing scales.

#embroidery #handembroidery #textileart #stitchedpaper
Two triangles of black felt on a white background. One is covered with blue-painted paper elements, that mimic the surface of butterfly wings. The other is stitched in lines of blue and white beads and thread. A side-on view of two triangles of black felt on a white background. One is covered with blue-painted paper elements, that mimic the surface of butterfly wings. The other is stitched in lines of blue and white beads and thread.
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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I finished the stitching on this a few days ago and forgot to post. Looking forward to finishing the edging.

#embroidery #textilesart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint
A long piece of canvaswork embroidery in greens and greys.
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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New shape! A small plummy purply shape I finished today as a kind of colour test. I wasn't sure if it would be okay with a white edge, but I think it works.

Already stitching the next one :D

#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint
Four stitched shapes on a white background. Each shape is a soft arched D shape with a geometric pattern in different colours.
October 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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thresfold.bsky.social
roughly 28x28 cm / 11x11 inches
August 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Line Drawing, Sketch Printed on Fabriano Paper
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I love this!
ahestenes.bsky.social Adrienne Hestenes @ahestenes.bsky.social · Sep 6
Ta daaa! I give you the Lorentz Attractor thanks to the free pattern from #ThreadedTheorems and also @samjshah.bsky.social whose posted work I admired.

#StemBroidery #MathArt #MathSky
An embroidery in a circular hoop of the Lorentz Strange Attractor. Embroidered using backstitch and variegated thread of colors aqua, indigo, and pink. The pattern loops around giving a two lobed appearance of a butterfly.
October 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Another green rectangle
#handembroidery #textileart
A rectangle stitched in geometric pattern in shades of green and grey.
October 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Kicking off the keychain bats with a slight variation of my original Clown Bat
#clownbat #keychain #handmadeplush
October 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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vladhat.bsky.social
We are so back. We are SO back. 🐀🇫🇷👑 Working on the second panel of the Reign rat triptych.

#linocut #workinprogress #art #printmaking #rats #crafts #traditionalart #fanart #artsky #printsky
Partially carved linocut block dyed red with a Pfiel tool and a hand visible with aqua blue nails. Block is lined out with images of rats doing costume drama stuff in a cutaway dollhouse style castle. Carved rat is hanging by his tail sipping tea while peeping on another rat reading a Handmaiden's spicy private journal.
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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New shapes.
#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #crochet #canvaswork #needlepoint
Three embroidered shapes, longish rectangles arranged on a white background. The shapes are embroidered in shades of green and grey in geometric patterns and edged in white.
October 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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A new green shape, stitched and ready for edging.
#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint #shapes
An embroidered shape, in greens and greys. The white mesh fabric it's stitched on is visible around the edge. The stitches are simple straight stitches in different lengths forming simple geometric areas.
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I am excited to announce that I will be showing how I make these bird brooches at the Making Zen online retreat!
There will be 30 artists presenting during the week, and it’s free to watch each presentation for 24 hours when it airs - October 27-31, 2025!
Link in bio (this is an affiliate link)
Felt brooches in many colours, stitched with whimsical birdlike features. There is a group of five brooches posed on a white background.
September 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The home stretch
A Korean silk embroidery project. Mulitcolor and gold silk thread on red silk. Birds flowers butterflies
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Some small green shapes. I pulled these out this afternoon to help me make choices on the larger pieces I’m working on.

#embroidery #textileart
Greenish stitched shapes on a white background. The shapes are stitched in simple short stitches that completely cover the fabric in geometric patterns.
September 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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deidrerobb.bsky.social
My work 'Time well spent' is a finalist in the Trades Hall Art Prize 2025. I can't make it to the exhibition opening in Melbourne next week, but maybe someone out there can?

Details here:
www.weareunion.org.au/art_prize_op...

#TextileArt #Embroidery #CreateAgainstTheMachine
A detail of an artwork by textile artist Deidre Robb. The image shows small sections of five embroidered tape measures. The embroidery is worked in dark grey and gold threads on white linen. The repeating patterns measure time, not size.
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I finally finished making this embroidery into a cushion!
#embroidery#textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint
A cushion embroidered in stripes and zigzags in dark browns, golds, muted greens. It's on a pale cream coloured couch with a tapestry cushion in muted greens leaning against it.
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM