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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Thank you! She and I are mutuals, I love her work!

Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Thank you! I am shocked it didn't take me longer! I'm used to my pieces taking me closer to 2 but i think I locked in for this 😮‍💨

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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

If you're interested in seeing the *almost* full Timelapse I filmed of this #handembroidery piece, pop on over to my YouTube! youtu.be/cPUKxEJxrfg?...

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✨Timelapse✨ Hand Embroidered Tiger Portrait

YouTube video by Needlefelis Embroidery

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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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Laura McGarrity @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hunky gila monster 🧶 #embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart #sciart

Hand embroidery of a gila monster, stitched with thousands of French knots in salmon and black on salmon fabric, framed in a wooden hoop. The stitching is raised on the fabric giving it a 3D effect

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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 · 06/02/2025

Do I just not want the trip to be over? Maybe. I'm not ready to leave the warm weather. I'm not ready to pop the vacation bubble. The west coast energy is just so freeing, so light. I'm so grateful for this trip. And I have to remind myself that I am incredibly grateful for how far I've come.

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

But the thing is idk what else I would have done. I had SUCH a good day yesterday walking art galleries and talking to the sweetest people. Had a great lunch by myself, went to museums. It was a perfect day. And I'm actually sitting here like "yeah but did I appreciate it enough?"

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

I did about 90% of the things I wanted to in the city. And I've been ACTIVE and on my feet every day so far. So I took today to rest before we fly out for the next leg of this vacation tomorrow. But I'm sitting here regretting wasting the time.

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

Man. It doesn't matter how much I check the boxes of what I want to do, how much I have enjoyable experiences I will ALWAYS feel like I didn't appreciate things enough. I wish I knew where that mindset comes from. Is it greed? Not wanting things to end?

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laney • embroidery artist @thistlesandthread.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

i will DIE ON THIS HILL #handembroidery #audiobooks

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's a lovely Saturday morning in February, and you are a horrible goose. 🪿 ✨ #art #crossstitch

A hand is holding an embroidery hoop ik front of a grassy lawn.

The cross-stitched embroidery shows a goose wearing a cowboy hat, red bandana and bullet belt. They are standing in a grassy area.

On the left side of the goose's head, the text reads "Yee honk".

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

I actually just posted a tutorial on how I do my stencils! The channel is pretty new, but I'm working on it 🥰

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Creating Embroidery Stencils Digitally

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

Anyway I'm rambling here. But it feels like we have returned as the products of those years. "Hello, you absolutely beat the shit out of us, and gave us every trial, but here we are. This is what you made us. And we love you for it."

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

I couldn't understand why this place still feels like home as soon as I stepped into it. But my hubs and I moved in together here, got engaged here, got our cat here, and set every foundation for our lives here.

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

And it was such a vivid, strange experience. Because I felt like I was stepping right back into that version of myself. I could have turned right instead of left and walked to my old job right down the street on the corner.

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

Memory is a wild thing. This morning we got up before dawn because jetlag and walked down for coffee. Walking around this neighborhood in the dark,morning chill, nearly knocked me off my feet. I spent 4 years walking to a job that killed me in this cold dark

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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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A💤ul @passionpeachy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

2 mandarins for good luck 🍊🍊

A yellow ball python sits curled up in a pile with two mandarins stacked on its head, one of them peeled open with the fruit inside glowing.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My last big project was 70 colors. This one will probably be less. Maybe the 60ish range?

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A good reference photo! I try to plan as much as I can for the colors. Thank you!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I trace/plan the stencils over a reference photo, so that I can effectively map out my details and what colors go where!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Color selection mostly. I always struggle with the bridge of the snout because it's SO much real estate. I got the minder from embroideryandsage on Etsy!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thank you! I am also filming a timelapse for this piece too! I'm normally pretty bad at remembering to post progress but it's keeping me on track ✌️

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I do! I've also started making prints. So when she's done I'll get her scanned and put her up in my shop.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is my own project! I drew the stencil from a reference photo and I'm going off that for color guides.

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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 · 29/01/2025

Not to get all emotional but I'm excited to experience the city in ways we never could when we lived there. Not only financially (we were SO broke) but emotionally. I was working a soul sucking pet job in management, he was getting a phD in chemistry...we were not very happy people LMAO

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

I'm going back to San Diego for the first time since we moved away almost 7 years ago and it's so surreal. We lived there for 4 very transformative, HARD years, and the people we are coming back as are WILDLY different than the people we were when we left.

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Somehow tomorrow I have to prefilm content for YouTube, work on the tiger and film that too, pack to be away in San Diego for a week, and relax somewhere in there. Lol

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here, have a giant anteater. #Art

Digital art of a giant anteater with a long nose, fluffy plume of a tail, and striking black stripe along its side. It is ambling through a patch of grass. There is a red and orange zig zag frame behind it and a trail of fire ants going up the side of the image.

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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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AlliePaigeArt @alliepaigeart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The beautiful Buttons in hand embroidery . . #embroidery #petportrait #catlovers

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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 · 23/01/2025

So long 😵‍💫 most of my pieces take close to two months.

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

Holy shit y'all like that progress pic huh?? Thank you so much for the love! I'll be posting a lot more progress pictures for that piece as I go!

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

I try to see my progress as much as possible! 😁

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

Hi! I drew the stencil myself from a reference photo!

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Needlefelis 🪡🧵Hand Embroidery @janinetails.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oh I love this!! The transitions between colors is definitely something you'll get with practice!

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