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Janey Colbourne
@janeycog.bsky.social
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Peer support facilitator Brain Health Breakthrough CIC | Nonfiction Writer | Performance Poet | Embroidery Hobbyist | Gender Nonconforming | AuDHD | she/her

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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Book cover with title ‘The Mind of a Bee’ by Lars Chittka, in white text on a black background. A close-up photograph of an iridescent bee is the centre image.
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#moss #bryophytes
The cover of the book ‘Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The cover shows an illustration of moss, and a quote by Robert MacFarlane which says, ‘Grounding, calming and quietly revolutionary’
October 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay ☺️
Some pieces from my embroidery journey 2021-2025 (the last one is still unfinished)
A compilation of 12 photos of my embroidery pieces. Some are stitched words or line drawings in backstitch. Some are thread paintings. Ex There is one rectangular redwork piece in a frame, which is a stitched poem entitled ‘redwork’ and one piece that is a simple house design stitched on a mini canvas. The other ten are all in circular embroidery hoops. There are positive messages in the pieces with words. For example, the first piece in the top left, an embroidery piece in a hoop, with freehand words stitched in red. In the centre is a heart, around which is the phrase ‘create & chat’. All the words begin with the letter C. There are some flowers stitched with daisy chain stitch, and heart motifs. The stitched words are: contentment, conversation, calm, cherish, cozy, cheer, connect, craft, companions, comfortable. The bottom left piece is an embroidery ‘thread painting’ in an orange hoop. The scene is a pond in the woods. A tiny figure in the centre stands on a hillock just beyond the water. There are patches of ground stitched in orange and russet, where there is a carpet of fallen larch tree needles. The last piece, at the bottom right, is an unfinished embroidery in a detailed thread painting style, of a woodland scene, framed in a green embroidery hoop. The large central tree is growing on rock. In the foreground, the purples in the rock strata have been accentuated.
July 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Incredibly slow progress on my #HandEmbroidery #ThreadPainting

#WIPWednesday
Hand embroidered ‘thread painting’ work in progress, depicting a woodland scene, with a central tree growing on rock, and framed in a green hoop.
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I know it’s small consolation, and a weird irony, but you’re popular right now on FB
Screenshot of a search box, showing that Rebecca Solnit is ‘popular now’
June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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My personal embroidery has taken a bit of a backseat as I’m working on a community textile project with our #LongCovidSupport group at #BrainHealthBreakthroughCIC
Some beautiful contributions from our group members

#CommunityArts #LongCovidBanner
#crochet #embroidery #CrossStitch #WIP #TextileArt
Two fabric pieces in the shape of ginkgo leaves, in two shades of green. The dark green leaf has the words resilience and strength embroidered on it. The bright green leaf has the words hope and endurance embroidered in it. A selection of textile pieces laid out on a bright green background as part of a banner work in progress, including a cross stitch piece that reads ‘Brain Health Breakthrough’ circled by crocheted hands that are linked together. There are crochet sunflowers and a heart, and two pink Suffolk puffs in the shape of hearts. Various leaf shapes in three shades of green cotton fabric, laid out on a coffee table.
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This is Oscar Wilde’s prison door which I saw at Queer Britain in London a couple of years ago. It’s titled ‘We Who Live in Prison’. I’ve written out the artist statement in the alt text. Seeing it in person was powerfully poignant.
Oscar Wilde’s prison door on display at an exhibition. It is a dirty yellow, heavy door with rivets, and multiple locks and bolts. The artist statement beside it reads, ‘In 1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned with hard labour on the charge of gross indecency. Behind this cell door Wilde wrote De Profundis as a letter to his lover on his allocated four sheets of paper per day. He died destitute three years after release at the age of 46.’
February 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I’ve solved the overheating problem
#mytitsarehot #titsonfire #mastitis #longcovidsymptomsareweird #cabbagebra
Series of six images, five of which are screenshots from an IT Crowd episode. First three images are of Jen in a meeting. The captions say: ‘my tits’ ‘Oh, my tits are hot’ ‘My tits are on fire’ Fourth image is Moss holding a burning bra. The fifth image is of me, Janey Colbourne, wearing two cabbage leaves as a bra. The sixth image is of the main characters in IT crowd, with the caption ‘It’s a living bra’
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Finished piece
Textile piece. Black background fabric with two felt pink hearts. Stitched text goes across the hearts and background and reads 41<=BPM=>211
January 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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My piece for this week’s #WIPWednesday is for @longcovidsupport.bsky.social Long Covid Banner. Those numbers are my lowest & highest recorded heart rates since I started wearing an armband monitor this year. A slightly rushed freehand piece because of the deadline. I’m using coton a broder thread
A black linen fabric piece 30cm by 6cm. Two felt pink hearts are pinned onto it, with the numbers 41 and 211 stitched on them in red. In the centre of the piece is some unfinished stitched lettering and a needle and thread. A black linen fabric piece 30cm by 6cm on a table. Two felt pink hearts are pinned onto it, with the numbers 41 and 211 stitched on them in red. In the centre of the piece is some unfinished stitched lettering and a needle and thread. Also in the table are sewing accessories and embroidery threads in different colours
January 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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How is it #WIPWednesday again already? Did a bit more on my woodland #embroidery ‘Life Force’ at the weekend but I’ve ground to a halt again. I’ll come back to it.
Embroidery work in progress portraying a woodland scene with a central tree trunk growing on rock. Unbleached cotton fabric in a green embroidery hoop.
January 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My current work in progress is very slow progress, but that’s ok.

The embroidery style is known as thread painting, stitched with single strands of embroidery floss to build up layers of detail. It can take hours to do a very small area.

#WIPWednesday #embroidery #threadpainting #textileart
Embroidery hoop with unfinished embroidery of a large tree trunk standing on rock in the woods. Other trees are silhouetted in the background. The tree trunk has shades of dusty pink, green and grey and the rock has shades of pink, purple and blue. There is still a lot of blank space as the work is less than halfway finished.
January 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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It’s a beautiful morning
Clouds lit by sunrise, in orange and pink, looking almost like rolling flames in the sky. Telegraph wires cross the scene
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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Morning II u II
Clouds lit by sunrise, in orange and pink, looking almost like rolling flames in the sky. Telegraph wires cross the scene
November 29, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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Dandelions are amazing. Beautiful, strong and important. They are great for tired bumblebee rescues. This photo is from a few summers ago
@dandelionappre1.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
A rescued bumblebee is nestled in a dandelion flower on an outdoor table. A rescued bumblebee is nestled in a dandelion flower on an outdoor table, with one leg outstretched, grasping the flower
November 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Honouring all those who were killed because of anti-trans hate & violence. Let’s work to make a safer world for the living
#transgenderdayofremembrance
November 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Delighted to see @wildflowerhour.bsky.social has migrated here. It’s an absolute joy to have your feed filled with flowers every Sunday evening, or indeed at anytime
To take part, share your wildflower images with the tag #wildflowerhour
Here’s a common spotted orchid (not a recent pic)
Photo of a common spotted orchid in a meadow
November 15, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Hi everyone, good to be here. Liking the vibe 💚 So far I’ve found lots of writers & scientists which is right up my street. I also love textile art. Here’s one of my pieces-Stitching Myself Back Together. There’s a whole story behind it but that’s for another day. Photo by British Textile Biennial
Photo of a seven inch orange embroidery hoop with an embroidery in the thread painting style, depicting a woodland scene. There’s a pool emptying into a stream, surrounded by mossy banks. Across the back of the scene are trees of various species going into the distance. There are patches of orange stitching to represent fallen leaves and larch tree needles. In the centre standing by the pool is a tiny figure with blond hair in a turquoise coat.
November 15, 2024 at 8:55 AM