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Colleen Iversen
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Scientist | #Arctic | #Belowground | #Roots | #ScienceEmbroidery | Opinions my own | She/Her | Editor @newphyt

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#Embroidery is kinda like carving. Can’t wait to see the real her. Pretty girl. 🤍
A partially embroidered polar bear with a grey and black snout stitched against a painted grey sky.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🐻‍❄️🐾
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear stitched on a painted grey background. She has a black and grey snout and brown eyes and is looking directly at the camera.
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I stitched a springtail for a beloved friend. They’re so pretty. ❤️
An embroidery of a springtail walking along a painted root highway to grab a fungi snack.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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White bears are verrrry colorful. 🌈
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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She’s so pretty. 🫶🏻
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout against a painted grey background.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Pretty brown eyes…
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background. She had brown eyes.
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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🐾
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout, stitched on a painted grey background.
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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🐻‍❄️
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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☁️🤍🩶
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear in whites and yellows staring at the camera. She had a grayish snout and she’s stitched against a painted grey sky.
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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🐾
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grayish snout and white and yellow fur against a painted grey background.
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The next #Embroidery is a polar bear for Grace at Audubon Alaska. 🤍🐻‍❄️
A partially embroidered close up of a polar bear face with a black nose and grey muzzle. She’s stitched against a grey sky.
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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She’s done. I love her winter shadows. ☀️❤️
#Embroidery
An embroidered willow ptarmigan in her winter white feathers - she looks like a white chicken. The low winter sun is making her feathers cast grey shadows. She’s standing on painted blue and white snow amount painted shrubs.
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Nearly done! Pretty girl - I love the shadows from her feathers. ✨
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan - a large white bird with grey shadows, standing in a painted snowy back gourd with shrub tops sticking up around her.
October 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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🌘✨
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan in her winter white feathers standing in bluish painted snow. She has shadows from her feathers.
October 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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More fluff!🪽
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered wintery white ptarmigan bird standing in the snow against a painted snowy landscape. Her feathers are fluffy and partly shaded.
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I picked her because she’s standing in the low winter sun and it’s making beautiful shadows on her feathers. ☀️
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan in her winter white, standing in the snow against a painted blue snowy background.
October 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🪽
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered white ptarmigan standing on the snow and surrounded by painted twigs.
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Did you know that the scientific name for willow ptarmigans refers to their fluffy ‘bunny’ feet? 🐇
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered white bird that looks like a chicken. She’s standing in the snow and surrounded by brown twigs.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The next #Embroidery will be a willow ptarmigan in the snow with her very fluffy feet on display. 🐓
A partially embroidered large white chicken ish bird against a painted blue and snowy background with willow twigs sticking up around her.
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Jade is done! Sweet boy. 💚🐺#Embroidery
An embroidery of a grey and black wolf dog named Jade with green eyes. He’s stitched on a painted green background.
September 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Getting closer!🩶🐺
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered silver wolf dog named Jade with green eyes, stitched on a painted green background.
September 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🖤🤍🐺
Getting closer. Need to check on his coloring with his mom Clarissa.:)
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered wolf dog named Jade with green and gold eyes. He’s smiling a doggy smile and is stitched in greys against a painted green background.
September 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Struggling to get his floppy ear right. Sigh. 🐺
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered wolf dog named jade with green eyes and grey and white and brown fur stitched on a painted green background. He’s smiling a doggy smile.
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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🐺🩶🤎🤍
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered wolf dog named Jade with green eyes. He’s tan and grey and white and is smiling a doggy smile. He’s stitched on a green background.
September 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Sometimes #embroidery feels like I’m carving an image out of the fabric, bit by bit. But it’s hard to be patient when I can see lots of details just waiting to be uncovered. :)🐺
A partially embroidered wolf dog named Jade in whites and tans and greys against a painted green background. He has green gold eyes and is smiling a doggy smile.
September 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM