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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Lydia Mott & Alice Paul tea cozies were selected for the 2025 Juried Art Show “Many Hands Built Thus Land” & will be on display at Sand Lake Center for the Arts throughout the month of August. Opening reception is Saturday, August 2 from 1-3 PM. #embroidery #juriedartshow

Image of a former church now the Sand Lake Center for the Arts and 2 embroidered tea cozies each feature a half portrait of a woman. Red and white line portrait is Lydia Mott. Purple and white line portrait is Alice Paul.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I got a little bit further on Camille Claudel today whilst on my lunch break. #embroideredportrait #embroidery

Embroidered line portrait of a women, Camille Claudel, on white fabric in a red embroidery hoop.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I am so proud of my book. It may not be a best seller, but it is all mine & I love it.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I don't give a shit who's in it. Expose them all.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Camille Claudel (1864-1943) - sculptor. I just started this embroidered portrait. I’m using a lovely wine colored vintage silk floss. Not sure if it is colorfast, so we shall see. If it runs, I will be ok with it. I think I might be oddly disappointed if it doesn’t. #embroidery

Partially embroidered outline portrait of Camille Claudel using wine colored embroidery floss on white cotton fabric in a red hoop.

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CornellyCo 🪡 Hand Embroidery @cornellyco.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you’re seeing this post, where are you from? 🌎 #embroidery #handembroidery #art #handmade #flowers

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CornellyCo 🪡 Hand Embroidery @cornellyco.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Finished! Red poppies, blue cornflowers and clovers 🩷 #embroidery #handembroidery #handmade #art #flowers The pdf pattern is available here: cornellyco.etsy.com

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Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Your reminder that you can create your own Bayeux Tapestry at home, using: htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

An archer with a bow confronting an unarmed man. The archer is saying "Hast thou betrayed us? Hast thou betrayed me?". The unarmed man responds "Avon, I was waiting for thee".

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Andrea M, mountain hermit @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

In the textile archives at the #Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, looking at treasures. 🧶 #embroidery #beadwork #bunad #folkdress #fiberarts

A museum curator wearing white cotton gloves holds up a piece of beaded and embroidered textile. It's an antique breastplate from a woman's dress, with velvet trim and metal bobbin lace on a handspun and handwoven ground textile of linen and wool with plant-dyed stripes.

A Hardanger-style breast plate or "brystukk" with elaborate and colorful beadwork on a red wool ground with black velvet trim.

A beaded brystukk with 8-pointed flowers in silver and gold, with imported brocade ribbon trim.

An antique embroidered brystukk with wool yarns on a cotton or linen canvas. Dark green velvet trim at top. Dark brown linen ground fabric. The colors of the red, yellow, blue, green, and black yarns are still very vivid.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Finished an embroidered portrait of Grace Hudowalski (1906-2004). She co-founded what woukd become the Adirondack Forty-Sixers and was the first woman to officially summit all 46 of the Adirondack High Peaks, #9 over all. East Dix was renamed Grace Peak in her honor in 2014. #embroidery #history

Brown embroidered outline of a woman, Grace Hudowalski, with short, curly hair on white fabric in a red hoop.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This looks fun! I’ve always wanted to make a zine…

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We weren’t just making it up when we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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The War on Women

When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Complaining about other voices and other perspectives in comics is like complaining that a restaurant serves some dishes you don't want to eat. It's sad and self centered and childish. Anyway, comics are great. Read the ones you want to read. Make the ones you want to make. /END

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

You know, more comic book people should do ALA. It really was incredible. It was so much fun talking to librarians about my books AND my friends' books. Far less frantic than a comic book convention. DEFINITELY going to try and go next year in Chicago.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Trump’s still clearly cranky about how poorly his birthday parade went, the wave of retaliation since says it all.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My daughter’s solo show opens this Saturday with a reception at 5:00 PM. The show is up at the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, NY through August 2, 2025. #photography #polaroid #instax #photographer

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The Political Revolution @polrev.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

That bill they passed in the middle of the night with one vote? It’s ugly. Call your Senators. Fill up their inboxes. Make it so it doesn’t get past the Senate. YES, this means Red states too. Next, show up on June 14th. You know what to do. #politicalrevolution #50501movement #impeachtrump

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As we mark the start of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we celebrate the cultures and legacies of our #AANHPI community. The contributions of our #AANHPI communities help make New York the great and diverse state that it is.

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025

Good Night World

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tell your Reps to vote NO on H.R.22! Tell your Senators to vote NO on S.128!

Person in a blue coat holding a black sign with pink and red letters saying “SAVE ACT = VOTER SUPPRESSION”.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I was interviewed for an online magazine a couple of months ago talking about embroidery, singing, & more… boldjourney.com/meet-tisha-dolton/

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We’re going to die

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 23/03/2025

Bea Arthur enlisted in the Marines in 1943, whether Pete Hegseth can handle that fact or not. Fuck these losers. www.msn.com/en-ie/news/w...

Bernice Frankel, later better known as the actress Bea Arthur, in a photo taken during her service in the US Marines during World War Two.

And fuck Pete Hegseth. Bea's waiting to come down to Hell and kick the crap out of the racist sexist SOB.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My library! Stephanik hasn’t shown up in Glens Falls since she moved her office out of the city when NY21 was made even larger a few elections ago.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21/03/2025

It's the biggest barrier to real solidarity with white people that so many of them are unable to recognize that fascism is very familiar to us as Black people, because they've been able to take America's promise of democracy for granted.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A relaxing couple of hours working on my new Redwork design of suffragist & sculptor Sarah “Sally” Welles James Farnham (1869-1943) at tonight’s NYCDC Embroider’s Guild of America stitch-in.

Red embroidered line portrait of a woman on white background fabric in a red embroidery hoop. Scissors in a maroon leather case, threaded needle and needle minder.

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 14/03/2025

Elizabeth Chandler, a Quaker from DE, used her penmanship to advocate for abolitionism. Her poem “The Slave Ship,” gained national attention, exposing the horrors suffered by the captured and enslaved during the Slave Trade. 159 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

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Melora Bales @melorabales.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That's the tea! Here's my newest design in the Sunbonnet Sue, Days of Rage collection. 💙Available as a finished piece or downloadable pattern in my Etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/Harvest... #artivism #resistance #Resist #embroidery #fiberart

Hand embroidery image of two vintage ladies sharing a pot of tea with the quote "The Only Dangerous Minority are the Billionaires."

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Teresa | Screaming Heart Design @screamingheart.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Anyone else have this soundtrack permanently embedded in their brain? Just me? Okay cool 😄 The good news is you don’t have to steal this cross stitch because it’s a free pattern! Visit my Free Pattern Library if you want some early 2000s anti-piracy stitching in your life. Soundtrack not included.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A judge denied LiveNation's attempt to dismiss our lawsuit against them and Ticketmaster for monopolizing the live events industry. Our case will now continue because it's time to end the era of fans, artists, and venues paying the price for this excessive market power.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Women’s History Month! Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848) Hand embroidered portrait by Tisha Dolton, 2023. Caroline was a German astronomer who discovered several comets & she was the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828.

Embroidered half portrait in gray on a white fabric background of a woman wearing a cap, ruffled collar a dress.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Celebrating Women History Month! Catherine Waugh McCulloch (1862-1945) Redwork embroidered tea cozy by Tisha Dolton, 2020. New documentary out about her: “Discovering Catherine”!

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 08/03/2025

As we honor Women’s History Month, let’s remember the strength and resilience of enslaved women who fought for freedom and shaped history. Their resilience continues to inspire the fight for justice today. 165 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

You and I can be fined $250 for throwing a gum wrapper onto the ground.

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aprilsongstress @aprilsongstress.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My daughter & I participated in our local Women’s March for International Women’s Day. #womensmarch #50501movement

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Sky Photos LLC @skyphotos.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is one of my favorite images - Blue on Blue of the #hudsonriver and the #catskills with the #HudsonAthensLighthouse in the foreground. Wishing you a relaxing weekend! #dronephotos #capitalregion #transport #sitephotos #dronedata #dronepilot #droneservices #calming #blue

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