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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hand embroidered, single strand DMC cotton and Devere silks. 73 colors and one month of work. This is a Himalayan monal whose picture I took myself at work, and I'm beyond stoked with how this came out. #handembroidery

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Man I'm so bad about using this app but hey here's another WIP. this is Kevin, the Himalayan monal. I'm doing this in a mix of DMC cotton and Devere silks, #handembroidery single strand. I hope to enter this for a gallery showing this year!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

She's done! 1.5 months, 71 colors(73 if you count the Gutterman spools), single strand #handembroidery . This is Puteri, a 1.5 year old sumatran tiger at the San Diego Safari Park! My first two tiger portraits were, coincidentally, of her parents. I'll be sharing comparisons with those soon!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Back with another update on this #handembroidery piece! I really only had the energy to do the ear today but I'm sooo close to being done... I won't have a lot of time to work on it over the next week, but maybe I'll have this done in two.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Another update on the princess! I'm stoked I really feel like it's moving now! I'm loving how the two sides of her face are interacting with the color palettes I'm using. #handembroidety #fiberarts

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Put in 4ish hours on this today. Starting on the ruff, filled the snout, and fixed some areas that were bothering me. This is tricky because I have to work in a specific order, in layers basically, for it to look natural. Goal is to work on that chest and shoulder next so I can fill it out "forward"

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Anyway I stood beneath a 110 year old fig tree, walked the art district from studio to studio, spoke to artists, bought art, went to museums, and finished it off with some delicious fish tacos and a marg to myself. San Diego was where I learned to LOVE my own company and that still stands

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I lived in San Diego at the wrong time in my life, because I have never appreciated this view as much as I do right now. Hello west coast, how I've missed you ❤️

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Progress on Puteri! This is my last bit of work on it for about a week and a half. I'm happy with the progress today, but not sure how I'm feeling about this overall just yet. Trusting the process is my greatest challenge. #handembroidery

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hand embroidered red panda with a 3d turkey work tail 🥰 single strand DMC in a 5 inch hoop. I did this one to try and get better at smaller color palettes and quicker projects. About 2wks work, I'm going to be turning this one into a pattern 😁 #embroidery

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is a stylized piece I finished for the winter solstice. I loved trying to work with a limited palette on this one(and I was dying to do eye shine spoookyyyy). Hand embroidered, single strand DMC.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I literally said last night to my husband "it will be back within the week and he will use it as a political power move to claim he saved it." You could see from a mile away this is what he and meta were setting it up for. people will believe it. If this is what the app is now, I don't want it.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Anyway this is the current WIP. I know for sureeee this is going to take me forever. But I'm also trying to actually record my progress instead of waking up one day like "it's done!"

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Trying to remember the years I spent crying and pleading for this job. Not quite sure if it was worth it, send help

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Mara, and rodents in general, dont get anywhere near enough love. I'm so stupidly in love with this lil girl 😭 look at that face

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I hear it's #PortfolioDay or something?? Anyway hi, I do hand embroidery. I'm also a zookeeper ✌️fun fact I work with the two jags I did the portraits of, and the eye is from a closeup shot of their daughter 😁

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hi! I'm Janine, Needlefelis on most platforms. I'm a zookeeper and hand embroidery artist that specializes in detailed, realistic animal portraits! I'm just out here shouting my work from the rooftops, excited to connect with more artists 🥰🥳

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Quick art share to slowly get it out there, but this is my recent BIG project! This is fully hand embroidered, single strand 😁 Also! This is my first piece i recently had yoinked and reposted as someone else's work so I guess I've really made it big as an artist now 🥳

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hi! I'ma Janine, a hand embroidery artist! I'm new here, so I look forward to following more artists!!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Woof idk why this piece in particular is giving me such bad insecurity. I just need to trust but DAMN.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The difference 😮‍💨 the top is the restarted piece. I'm so glad I just started over. It's soooo much better.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Well. For the first time I've scrapped and gone to completely start over a piece. Those eyes were just not what I wanted them to be and I know I can do better. Which is why I always start with them, so at least it was just 2 hours of work vs 20 eh?

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Hi Bluesky! I'm giving this a go, all in the name of sharing my work. I'm Janine, a zookeeper, embroidery artist, and lover of all things feline. Come on in, have a look, and stay for the stitches.

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