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Gavino_Austino
@gavino-austino.bsky.social
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Just an artist making his way in the galaxy.
He/him 🏳️‍🌈
My hobby is collecting hobbies and I'm on a textile kick right now. Embroidery, cross stitch, visible mending, and various patching methods are my focus at the moment.
https://textstylesdesign.etsy.com
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Gavino_Austino @gavino-austino.bsky.social · Feb 21
Still new to BlueSky and this type of app in general, so figuring out how it works has been fun. My interests include:
Embroidery
Linocut
Bookbinding
Photography
Sculpture
Sketches
Nalbinding (maybe?)
My hobby is collecting hobbies, so there will likely be more to come.
gavino-austino.bsky.social
18/100 #the100dayproject another busy day at work and have to start packing to go on a trip home! But I finished a #cross-stitch pattern based on #ATLA and opened an #Etsy shop! Feel free to check it out, I don't have much on there yet. textstylesdesign.etsy.com
#Pattern #Sewsky #Needle #art #avatar
A cross stitch render based on a scene from Avatar: The Last Airbender where Zuko has thrown the mask of the Blue Spirit into the water. There is a quote reading "You did the right thing. Leave it behind. The mask is based on kabuki masks and looks like a blue face with stylised mouth, eyebrows, and teeth. The teeth come out of the massive smile and there are two fangs on the top row of teeth. There are pale spikes coming off the sides of the mask and brown strap that is used to tie it on. The mask is half submerged in water and there are ripples around it.
March 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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17/100 #the100dayproject work was insane today. I made a new #cross-stitch chart, but definitely still a digital #wip. But between work tasks I managed to sew some #patches onto my #battlejacket!
#patch #sewing #needle
Two patches on the back left shoulder of a black canvas jacket. The one on the left is black with an orange border. It has a glue gun embroidery and says "I MAKE THINGS". The one on the right is white with a green border. It has a tomato pincushion with needles in it and says "stitch more worry less"
March 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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16/100 #the100dayproject it's finally finished this #gnome #cross-stitch! I love how much detail the backstitching brought back to their fluffy beards and faces. Now I'm stuck in the paralysis of what project to start next..
#needle #art #crossstitch #sewsky
A wooden hoop frame with white Aida cloth stretched inside it. The words "HANGING WITH MY GNOMIES" is cross-stitched with three gnomes in between the words. The left gnome is blue with green dots, the middle gnome is green with yellow stripes and holding a lantern, and the right gnome is yellow with blue stripes. They each have brown boots, tall pointed hats, and a fluffy white beards.
March 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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15/100 #the100dayproject I really thought I would finish this #wip today but so many things kept getting in the way. On the bright side, I've designed three different #cross_stitch charts to start after this one.
#needle #art #crossstitch
Three cross stitched gnomes in a row except the third isn't finished. The left is blue and green, the middle is yellow and green and the right is blue and yellow. They are on white 14ct Aida cloth in a wooden hoop and there is golden Hokusai's Wave needle minder above the gnomes
March 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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14/100 #the100dayproject got the second #gnome done! Just one more to #cross-stitch and then I have to decide whether I want to backstitch or leave them as #pixels. Then I'll add the lettering!
#needle #art #crossstitch
Two gnomes cross stitched onto white Aida fabric in a wooden hoop. The gnome on the left is blue with green dots in his hat and a big white beard. The gnome on the right is green with yellow stripes in his hat, holding a lantern, and a slightly smaller beard. They both have brown boots.
March 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#CrossStitch artists of Bluesky-- let's make a difference!

We're assembling a pattern bundle fundraiser: designers submit patterns, then donors give to a family's GoFundMe and receive a bundle of patterns in return.

Go to CrossStitchForGaza.com to donate a pattern or learn more!
romo image with the details of the Cross Stitch for Gaza fundraiser. It invites people to donate cross stitch patterns from March 7 - 9, donate €15 or more to Hadeel Mikki's GoFundMe from April 4 - 25, and has a message encouraging viewers to spread the word.
March 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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13/100 #the100dayproject the second #gnome in this #cross-stitch is slowly appearing! Another work day of stitching between tasks completed.
#needle #thread #art #crossstitch
Part of an embroidery hoop with white Aida cloth mounted. There is a green gnome holding a lantern in the center and the shape of what will become a blue gnome to his left. They are both made from thread by cross stitching. A round magnetic needle minder in the shape of a golden version of Hokusai's Wave holds a single needle in the top left.
March 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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12/100 #the100dayproject working on this #cross-stitch between tasks at work has been incredibly satisfying!

#needle #crossstitch #art #gnome
A gnome made from cross stitched green, white, yellow, and brown thread. He sits in the middle of a wooden hoop and there is a golden Hokusai's Wave magnetic pin in the top left holding the needle in place.
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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11/100 #the100dayproject hopefully doing this #cross-stitch will keep me more on track with posting regularly! My first time doing a cross stitch and I'm enjoying it so far. It's fun to see the "pixels" from.
Cross stitch with green and peach thread on white Aida fabric in what will eventually be a gnome
March 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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7?/100 #the100dayproject wow I'm awful at keeping up with this.. but here's a #D&D character I'm working on! He's a skeleton raised by a necromancer. But before he died, he was a simple bookseller who dreamed of adventure. Until he got a rare black magic tome and was killed for it.. Turner Bookman!
Page from a sketchbook with a drawing of a skeleton in partial armour holding a sword and a book. He is holding the book out for a ghostly animal to read from it. There is also a head study of the character looking up with his jaw open and a hovering crown of glowing crystals floating around his skull. In between the figure and the head study are the words "Turner Bookman" because that is his name.
March 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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4/100 #the100dayproject I've been working on projects for work the last couple days and don't feel like I've done a lot of creative things for me. But here are some #stickers and cards I made to go with the #embroidery #keycaps!
#art #digital
6 business card sized identifiers number 0-5/5. There are embroidered keycaps with purple flowers on them on top of each card and a matching digitally designed simple logo out of purple and yellow. Each card reads "Lilac Blossom: Eight Petal Embroidered Keycap Made by Gavin :: Octonite" and then has my signature on them A simple flower design with eight purple petals and a yellow-gold center on a square sticker with gray border and rounded corners. It is designed to match the look of the embroidered keycap. The sticker is sitting in my palm.
February 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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2/100 #the100dayproject Today I finished up a small batch of the embroidered keycaps and am really happy with how they turned out! I am raffling them off to keyboard enthusiasts in my local area groups and am excited to make more soon. Writing a blog post about the process!
#embroidery #keycap #art
Six keycaps in two columns of three. Each cap has a purple flower embroidered onto a loose silk weave pressed into a plastic frame that houses the keycap bottom that allows it to interface with a mechanical keyboard switch. Each flower has a golden french knot in the middle to add some colour and glitter to the piece. The top right keycaps used canvas instead of silk and so the base colour is more off-white than white and the weave is tighter.
February 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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This #wip is taking forever but it's helping me mess with threads and techniques that I haven't tried before. I don't know if I'll show much of its progress online, but I'm excited for what it may become.
#embroidery #fiber #art #skull #fabric
A round embroidery hoop with mostly blank fabric. In the middle, a partial skull sits nestled among dirt, moss, Forget Me Nots both alive and dead, a swatch of brown fabric that will become "something" maybe, and the start of a fern patch.
February 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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It's not much for the first day of #the100dayproject but I'm testing out fabrics and threads for making more embroidered keycaps. I think I'm settling on some loose silk and a DMC 3042 for the petals and E3821 for the french knot in the middle. #embroidery #art #wip
An oval embroidery hoop mounted with a loose-weave silk. A grid is drawn in pencil that has been warped by the stretching of the fabric and in the center of the middle squares running down the middle are four small embroidered flowers with a mauve floss. The bottom two flowers have a golden middle with a metallic floss.
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I really like rocks. I was a sculpture student and fell in love with working with stone. As homage to that, here are some film photos in 35mm and medium format that I took over the last year in Illinois and Arizona. I have lots more, but will start with this sampling
#photography #film #rocks #caves
A black and white photo of sandstone rocks stacked around the corner of a wooden door frame in a ghost town in Arizona. The gleam brightly in the harsh southwestern sun and the wood has clearly been aged by the elements. Through the frame, a glimpse of shadowed rocks can be seen A black and white photo of a sheer wall of limestone with icicles clinging to the shadowy recesses of its craggy surface. Trees at the base reach up towards the top of the bluff and the trees crowning the ridge give scale to this sublime giant of stone. The barest edge of a roof can be seen behind the trees in the top right. A colour photo of stones surrounding a meteor crater (not pictured) in Arizona. There are stairs made of concrete lined with colourful stonework and bright orange metal railings that meander up a hill of orange, grey, brown, and ochre rocks and boulders with reddish-brown dirt and pebbles and sparse greenery filling in the groundcover. A black and white photo looking from the inside of a cave out towards multiple large openings. The sunlight streams inside hitting a small stream of water and casting shadows around large limestone boulders and slabs that have fallen from the ceiling. There are bits of graffiti scattered around the base of the cave walls.
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Thanks to BlueSky I discovered #Nalbinding and, with some purple heart wood that I found laying around, I made a needle for it and followed some YouTube tutorials to start making chains! I'm so excited to learn this historic fiber art.
A carved wooden needle next to a wool chain of nalbinding held down by my hand on top of my thigh
February 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
gavino-austino.bsky.social
Still new to BlueSky and this type of app in general, so figuring out how it works has been fun. My interests include:
Embroidery
Linocut
Bookbinding
Photography
Sculpture
Sketches
Nalbinding (maybe?)
My hobby is collecting hobbies, so there will likely be more to come.
February 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Good morning crafty people! I have a handful of different projects going - embroidery, linocut, book project, etc - and am kind of stuck on all of them. How do you get past roadblocks if you have them? Where does your inspiration or motivation come from?
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Tiny tiny embroidery on a single keycap. Testing out ideas
#art #embroidery #keycap
February 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Needed a good pocket for notebook and pencil so I made one with some scraps of fabric laying around. #sewing #mending #patch #bisquared #bidesign
February 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Anyone else steal pockets from other pants to make your favourite pair better?
February 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Working on developing a course for kids that I'll be teaching for a week this summer. It's all about accessible crafts, so I figured I need to dust off my pink pearl printing skills!
February 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM