laney • embroidery artist
@thistlesandthread.bsky.social
🗝️ old victorian lady in a millennial’s body
🪡 never not stitching
📚 pairs well with books
IG: @thistles.and.thread
🪡 never not stitching
📚 pairs well with books
IG: @thistles.and.thread
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July 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
May 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
May 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
i stitched this three years ago after the war in ukraine first broke out. it seems like an apt time to share it again. i stand with ukraine. 🇺🇦🌻
#embroidery #ukraine
#embroidery #ukraine
March 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i stitched this three years ago after the war in ukraine first broke out. it seems like an apt time to share it again. i stand with ukraine. 🇺🇦🌻
#embroidery #ukraine
#embroidery #ukraine
what i’ve learned from having a post stating a controversial (though fairly innocuous) opinion go viral-ish on bluesky:
1) i was led to believe the discourse here was kinder? more thoughtful? nah, people are still awful if they disagree with you
2) people have a LOT of ways to call someone stupid
1) i was led to believe the discourse here was kinder? more thoughtful? nah, people are still awful if they disagree with you
2) people have a LOT of ways to call someone stupid
February 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
what i’ve learned from having a post stating a controversial (though fairly innocuous) opinion go viral-ish on bluesky:
1) i was led to believe the discourse here was kinder? more thoughtful? nah, people are still awful if they disagree with you
2) people have a LOT of ways to call someone stupid
1) i was led to believe the discourse here was kinder? more thoughtful? nah, people are still awful if they disagree with you
2) people have a LOT of ways to call someone stupid
February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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People are like "the genie is out of the bottle with AI so we'll all have to live with it." No it isn't. No we won't. That isn't true
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
People are like "the genie is out of the bottle with AI so we'll all have to live with it." No it isn't. No we won't. That isn't true
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I have just enough audacity and delusion to think I can make anything. It might not look great but it’s definitely something that didn’t exist before.
January 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I have just enough audacity and delusion to think I can make anything. It might not look great but it’s definitely something that didn’t exist before.
doing my annual reread of jane austen’s novels and in chapter 19 of mansfield park sir thomas bertram says “but indeed, i would rather have nothing but tea.” and i was like “same, sir thomas.” so then i ransacked my tea stash to stitch this ☕️
#embroidery #tea
#embroidery #tea
January 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
doing my annual reread of jane austen’s novels and in chapter 19 of mansfield park sir thomas bertram says “but indeed, i would rather have nothing but tea.” and i was like “same, sir thomas.” so then i ransacked my tea stash to stitch this ☕️
#embroidery #tea
#embroidery #tea
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Me: what’s that black bird with the red on its wings called
Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird
Me: holy shit
Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird
Me: holy shit
February 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Me: what’s that black bird with the red on its wings called
Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird
Me: holy shit
Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird
Me: holy shit
okay so i’m thoroughly done with january, do you think if i stitch more of these it will manifest october
#embroidery #artist
#embroidery #artist
January 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
okay so i’m thoroughly done with january, do you think if i stitch more of these it will manifest october
#embroidery #artist
#embroidery #artist
his name is todd and he is doing his best
#embroidery
#embroidery
January 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
his name is todd and he is doing his best
#embroidery
#embroidery
ta-dah here’s my latest double hoop embroidery which i call “tea for two”
on a related note if anyone wants to come over and watch grey gardens with me please consider this an open invitation
on a related note if anyone wants to come over and watch grey gardens with me please consider this an open invitation
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ta-dah here’s my latest double hoop embroidery which i call “tea for two”
on a related note if anyone wants to come over and watch grey gardens with me please consider this an open invitation
on a related note if anyone wants to come over and watch grey gardens with me please consider this an open invitation
i'm on the wrong (?) side of 30, i've never used twitter or threads, and i have absolutely no idea what i'm doing, but GOSH DANGIT I'M HERE I GUESS??
anyway i do hand embroidery, here's some of it
anyway i do hand embroidery, here's some of it
January 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
i'm on the wrong (?) side of 30, i've never used twitter or threads, and i have absolutely no idea what i'm doing, but GOSH DANGIT I'M HERE I GUESS??
anyway i do hand embroidery, here's some of it
anyway i do hand embroidery, here's some of it