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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

#Fiesta Day #brunch at my Dad’s apartment complex. A lot of very tasty #foods to try. Also had a margarita that was #lovely as well!

Festive fiesta-inspired piñata and lighted cactus 🌵 on a table with a striped tablecloth.

Mexican & Spanish foods on a table for Fiesta Day in the dining room of my Dad’s apartment complex.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Cutting strips of #fabric to begin making a #homemade braided #rug for my #apartment. My #pup, Jolie, has decided to come help supervise the work being done (as she will more than likely walk upon this #braidedrug - as well as lay upon it too!) #pennsylvaniadutch #culturalart #heritage #ancestry

Cute white and black long-haired Chihuahua mixed-breed pup 🐶 supervising on the floor where her human is cutting strips of fabric.

Strips of white fabric cut on a beige carpeted floor. The knee of the artist, wearing black pants, can be seen at the bottom of the picture. Scissors ✂️ & a black cord connected to a fan out of the frame (because it was vey hot inside).

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Spent about an hour and a half after work, doing a simple #DIY update to my #apartment bathroom. It looks so much more #modern in #style. It’s certainly not perfect (I might need some double sided tape for some of the edges), but all-in-all I am very pleased with how it turned out! 🩵

Updating a very brown apartment bathroom
to something a bit more modern looking.

The completed DIY project to update a very brown apartment bathroom.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Submitted my 2nd (& last #essay) for the #graduate 👩🏻‍🎓 #course in #Sustainability #Science I’m taking. Hopeful for a good grade on it.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Having #breakfast with my Dad at our town’s local #favorite #restaurant, My #Garden Cafe. Lots to do to get him settled into his new place.

Painting on the wall in an Impressionist style of a tree 🌳 , a white fence, and a birdhouse.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In the course of moving my Dad 👴🏻 to a much better #living situation, we came across #film 🎞️ from my mum’s side of the #family. I’m asking my #cousin, a videographer 🎥, how best to #digitize these. Do any of you know of a good place that does that?

A film roll with a note written in pink ink what they think is on that particular film 🎞️ roll.

Multiple rolls of film of my mum’s side of the family in a brown met box with two silver metal clips near either end, sitting on a countertop.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I saw this #little cutie #bird during my #walk while on my break. It was #chirping up a storm above my head in that #tree. 🌳 #Singing some sort of #important song. 🎶

Cute little bird chirping from the center of a tall tree. Blue sky abounds.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Watched the #documentary film by the #BBC, Moominland Tales: The Life of #ToveJansson. It’s inspiring me to create my own characters & #write ✍🏻 their #stories. The #Moomins are a family of trolls who go together on amazing adventures. #WaltDisney tried to buy them from the #author, she declined.

A title card for the BBC documentary film 🎞️, Moonminland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Jolie, the #pup I share with my Dad 👴🏻, is #helping the ambulance 🚑 along that we heard from our apartment as it rolled on down the street. Jolie howls to help them know where to go. Kind of like a #StarlightBark, I think! 🐶💭 #the101dalmatians #dodiesmith #cutepets #chihuahua

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Watching the #documentary about #CharlieMackesy and how he came about #creating the #story & #book 📖 for The Boy 👦🏻, the Mole, the Fox 🦊, & the Horse. 🐴

Image of Charlie Mackesy, author of The Boy👦🏻, the Mole, the Fox 🦊, & the Horse 🐴 for the documentary on how he created the characters & the story.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Haven’t been feeling well, so trying to do a few errands & then rest as much as I can. Allergies got me like, “Achoo!” 🤧 ‘Tis the season where I live. The #almondblossoms 🌸 in #bloom. #Pretty to look at? Yes. A bit annoying, with all the stuff in the air? Also, yes. #trees #flowers

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Spent the #morning & #afternoons this #weekend looking at furniture. Tables, beds 🛌, chairs 🪑, oh my! Lots of various pieces to think about & figure out what is needed. Plus, #budgeting for this as well. Took a side trip to a tech #store to get my Dad new #headphones & saw this #Lego #cat🐈‍⬛ design.

Black & white Lego cat next to a red Lego Jeep vehicle inside a tech store.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Does anybody know how long #Starbucks has been doing this initiative, Grounds for your #Garden 🪴? This is quite cool! It’s FREE & right at the entrance/exit to the #store. I live in a part of #California where most of the world’s food is grown or #cultivated. This is a really #useful thing to do.

Starbucks front entrance has at the door floor bags of grounds that you can take for FREE for your garden! 🪴

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Waiting for the #Disney’s #Fantasia: In Concert Live to #Film 🎞️ performance. 🎭 I remember seeing this film when I was really little, so this will be fun hearing the #symphony along with it. 🎶

A symphony orchestra prepares before a live performance of the Disney film, Fantasia.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Little #Library 📚 outside the entrance to our #town’s local mall. I haven’t really #shopped (or #walked around)this mall in years, so did not know this was added.

Small Little Library 📚 lending books to the community in front of a mall, shopping center. Green paint with blue 🩵 leaves 🍃 design.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Jolie 🐶 was a great support laying on the couch 🛋️ & snoring next to me 😴 while I worked on the center of these circles, #embroidering them on. In the end, all the pieces will be put together to make some abstract sunflowers. 🌻💛 #librarian #librarydecor #highschool #artist #diy #library #embroidery

A very cute white & black Chihuahua mixed-breed pup (🐶 named Jolie) stares up at the camera while her human works on an embroidery project with painted fabric, beads, and pink 🩷/ purple 💜 cardstock.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So…those wrapped wooden hoops & those #painted yellow #fabric circles??…. Well, they are now getting colorful #cardstock circles #embroidered onto them. 💜💚

A floral embroidery 🧵 box 🗃️ set upon a dark wooden table with pink & purple circles cut out.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Well, I was going to try to work on some #embroidery 🧵 tonight, but apparently my downstairs #neighbors have a big leak (but it doesn’t seem to be coming from my particular #apartment.) However, the gutters outside are definitely overflowing. That’s the only place where water 💦 is pooling a lot.

Cute little white & black dog huddles down into a fort made of many different blankets. It’s a rainy evening and she’s trying to keep warm.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Spent part of the #evening on this very rainy #California day #cooking a #vegetarian #dinner. On cold & rainy days like this, it’s great to have a simple meal to eat. It’s mushrooms 🍄‍🟫, cherry tomatoes 🍅, & parsley 🌿 sautéed in a pan & then scooped upon toast. This made enough for 2 #meals for me.

A pan of sautéed mushrooms, tomatoes, & parsley cooking on a black stove.

Mushroom 🍄‍🟫, tomatoes 🍅, & parsley 🌿 scooped upon sourdough toast on a faux marble counter.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

When I’ve been whined at for over thirty-minutes because a certain #chihuahua mixed-breed #California #pup 🐕 wants her *daily* #evening treat 🍪 (right now!) & how dare her human sit down to eat her own #dinner before giving her a treat. (FYI #Jolie ate her dinner first before I got to eat mine).

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Next part of this particular #library #project #decor is completed! The yellow circles will be at the center of the wrapped #yarn hoops. Next part will be embroidering beads in the center, lots and lots of them! Oy! #librarian #design #arts&crafts

Bright pink rug with art supplies upon it: gouache paint, scissors, a roll of fabric, and a paint tray. Little black & white pup supervising in the top right corner.

Bright yellow painted fabric circles, drying on a pink rug.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Spending my evening tonight working on a #project for some #springtime #decor. This project is for work. I’m a #highschool #librarian. This is going to take a little bit of time, but I’m hoping it will look 👀 really cool once it’s completed. 💚🌻💜

A large wooden embroidery hoop wrapped in a green yarn. 🧶 Another, smaller wooden hoop is wrapped in purple yarn. 💚💜

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A little bit farther along on this #rose #embroidery. It is inspired by a #photograph I took of a #flower in my #father’s old #garden. I think, because of #climatechange & #California getting so hot, especially in the #summer, the #flower wasn’t sure if it needed to stay or go. So it just held on.

A pink rose embroidery is set in the center of an off-white fabric & held by a round wooden hoop. Blue and yellow embroidery stretches out from the center to the edge of the circle.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It was decided that we cannot stay in the flat all day & must go out on an #afternoon constitutional to & I quote, ‘seize the day & sniff everything!’ But, where does Miss Jolie #pup 🐶 go to when we get back to the flat? Right to the sofa 🛋️, of course! #cutedogs #chihuahua #rescuedog #adoptdontshop

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Jolie 🐶 #pup has decided that it is now time to get out of bed 🛏️ & move to the sofa out in the front room & watch #YouTube videos. We’re taking it easy today. Yesterday she was at daycare the whole day & I was doing: laundry 🧺, cleaning dishes 🍽️, vacuuming. You know, all the stuff! #cutedogs #pets

Very cute Chihuahua mixed-breed pup 🐶 Jolie, of white & black fur, is dressed in an aquatic colored hoodie and sits upon a sofa 🛋️ covered in multiple blankets.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For those that are interested in the #history of #textile #traditions, this definitely looks like a good #read! 📚

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The #rose #embroidery that I’m working on is slowly getting there. I made this #digital version in #procreate to get a basic sense of what #thread #colors I might want to use. I ended up doing a lighter #pink part of the rose. 🌹 Not sure if I’ll made it a solid #background or not. We’ll see…🩵💛

Pink rose 🌹 with a green stem with yellow and blue thread 🧵 stretching out from the middle. The embroidery is held by a wooden round hoop.

A digital rose image with a blue and golden yellow background.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Next part is scratching lines into the foam so that there is plenty of #texture. Then it’s on to using #ModPodge (& waiting for that to dry). Then, beginning to #paint!🎨 I *tried* the #gold first, but it was very thin. Mixed it with some brown & it looks closer to wood texture! 🪵 #diy #homedecor

Flattened piece of thin foam scratched on the surface to make different patterns upon it.

Painted piece of the thin foam that will hopefully look *kind of* like wood. 🪵 If not exactly, it will at least give a nice border to a room I’m working on.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I had to do my best to get the thin foam to lay flat & then measured for the approximate size I think I want for these. A certain Jolie 🐶 #dog offered her services to sniff everything & supervise the project, & while setting the foam to the side, a hidden #Mickey appeared! 🐭 (not on purpose!) #diy

A little Chihuahua mixed-breed rescue pup 🐶 inspects the work being done on some thin white foam sheets that have been measured and drawn own to then cut out strips. A bright pink rug is underneath all.

The thin foam strips finally cut and weirdly positioned themselves into a hidden Mickey. 🐭 Do you see it? It’s on top of a beige carpet and a pink rug. Tools like a pencil & scissors are on the left nearby.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Working on a #diy #homedecor project to see if it will work. I’ve seen a few videos of this on #youtube where others have seen success, so….here we go!

Curious gal holds some thin, rolled up foam for a unique home decor project in front of a pink rug.

Thin, art foam was rolled out and laid *mostly* flat & then using a ruler and pen 🖊️ lines were drawn on the foam to make long strips.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m really liking this option for e-books instead of #Amazon. Thank goodness for another option! Go Bookshop.org!

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Always #thankful for co-workers (💙🏫💛), 79yr old Dads 👴🏻 with good senses of #humor, & puppy #dogs 🐕 that are great at cuddling on difficult days. This is Jolie. She’s a #chihuahua, #toypoodle, #shihtzu, #pomeranian, #cockerspaniel, #minipinscher. Basically a mutt 🐶 & a rescue. 🛟 Oh, & she’s cute! ☺️

Very cute mixed breed toy-sized dog. Her black and white face is sleeping on various blankets & a comforter.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This #embroidery is slowly coming along. I got a couple hours of work done on it tonight. It’s a fun #fiberart project to work on & is #inspired by a #rose 🌹 that was growing in my Dad’s #garden.

An embroidery hoop with the beginnings of a pink rose 🌹 with a green stem. Blue and yellow are at the center of the round embroidery piece.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Leaf #embroidery inspired by the #book, #ThePowerofTrees 🌲🌳 & #scientific #research 🔬 Davis DR, Wagner DL (2011) Biology and systematics of the New World Phyllocnistis Zeller leafminers of the avocado genus Persea (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). CC by 3.0 zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Leaf embroidery on an off-white fabric, in a wooden hoop, showing tunneling through the leaf by a leaf miner as a twisting brown line of brown thread. The leaf 🍃 gets eaten & the tree 🌳 can die.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#Beginning a new #embroidery piece that I am calling, “Is it getting hot 🥵 in here?” The image is of a #rose 🌹 in my father’s old #garden that would just not give up & held on through harsh #summer heat (over 💯 degrees many days) & through intense cold 🥶 (below #freezing #temperatures).

Wooden embroidery hoop holds fabric that has the design of a pink rose 🌹 with a green stem. A blue line 🩵 stretches across above a yellow 💛 line underneath it. Embroidery floss can be seen in the background on a wooden table.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Quite a few of my #students did really well this #afternoon (& earned multiple #medals)🏅 for the #Academic Decathlon! They have been studying 📖 very hard & it totally shows! Cant wait to #celebrate them all when I see them on Monday.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Supporting my kiddos (high school #students) as they #compete at our county’s annual #academicdecathlon!

White sign 🪧 in purple font stating:
Welcome to the Stanislaus County Academic Decathlon!

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The #Aluminum Show was certainly unique to watch tonight after work (& after #dinner with my Dad 👴🏻). It’s like a cross between #puppetry & interpretive #dance. 🪱💃🏻🪩❤️ After the show 🎭 finished, the #performers came out to show us all how they moved & #danced in the aluminum tubes while on stage.

A performer, dressed in a black leotard with white lines on the costume, holds a piece of flexible aluminum from, “The Aluminum Show” after the performance was done.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The lovely #art #installation of #pink metal #flowers 🌸 outside of the #theater where I am currently waiting to watch a pretty unique show. I will report back on how it goes & what I think about it.

Metal pink flowers are hanging above green petal stems connected to a silver seating area in front of a beige building.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

At the #theater 🎭 waiting to watch #thealuminumshow. Have any of you seen this #performance & #show? It looks, from the promo materials, kinda weird & trippy. I guess I’ll find out very soon how it goes.

Red curtain that shines the words: THE ALUMINUM SHOW. Silver colored bags lay on the right. People begin to take their seats in the theater. 🎭

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Almost to the finish line with this #artistic #embroidery piece. 🍃 It has certainly been #fascinating #reading about how these pests affect the #trees🌳 But, it still makes me #wonder 💭 if we can find #beauty even in knowing this could be the very end of life for this #tree if its #leaves fade away?

A leaf embroidery 🧵 showing a twisting brown line where the leaf miner has tunneled through and eaten the leaf. 🍃

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

More #stitching completed on this #leaf #embroidery project with a special #puppy 🐶 #dog helper, Jolie, supervising my work tonight. Just a bit more to do for the other half! This embroidery is #inspired by my #reading of #books about #trees 🌳💚🌲 & how #climatechange & pests 🪰🐌🦋affects them.

White and black Chihuahua mixed-breed pup dressed in a green Christmas sweater looks at the camera. In front of the dog lays a wooden embroidery hoop with a leaf that is being embroidered into the fabric.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

On a day like today 🇺🇸, it makes me so very blessed & thankful to also be an Irish ☘️/EU 🇪🇺 #citizen. Options in education & ability to move, if need be. I am also thankful for my #Science grad 👩🏻‍🎓 #studies beginning exactly today. Loving the diversity of those taking the course at #stockholmuniversity 🇸🇪

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Finally got home 🏡 after a busy day of doing errands with my 79yr old Dad. 👴🏻 I am hoping to put up the curtain rod & basic curtains I got for basic #homedecor, to not use the annoying plastic apartment ones that keep falling down (& are not helpful). My #dog 🐶 #Jolie supervising from the sofa. 🛋️

Black and white Chihuahua-mix breed dog laying on a botanical comforter and teal blanket in a small beige apartment.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Out to #lunch with my #Dad 👴🏻 as we spend this, sun ☀️ shiny #afternoon, doing errands. We had talked about coming here (BJs) but he wasn’t really hungry. So, I headed to the other option. Then, “How about BJs?” when I was parking at the other place. “Sure,” as I began driving the opposite direction 😄

Art outside of BJs restaurant. Red building with green bushes and a wooden bench set in front.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Completing a bit more on this half of my #leaf 🍃 #embroidery tonight & then do my errands for groceries (& other stuff) tomorrow. Planning to keep myself occupied with #positive things on MLK Jr. Day: #reading, embroidery, #friends & #family.

Embroidered fabric in the shape of a leaf with twisting lines in brown thread, showing leaf miner’s pattern tunneling to eat the leaf.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I find it very interesting that the #thread #colors that I am currently using in my #embroidery projects are bright, but also on the more neutral side of the spectrum. I’ll definitely have more pops of pinks 🌷 & purples🪻, but for now it’s more greens 🌿🍄‍🟫 & browns being featured more prominently.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Feeling good with the direction this #artistic piece of #embroidery is going. The twisting turns of these lines are a bit like our lives sometimes, alternate routes & detours to someplace we hadn’t originally thought about.

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The book that I’m #reading that got me thinking about the intersection of #art & #science is this one by #PeterWohlleben, #ThePowerofTrees. In the first chapters, he described trees🌲🌳, in #forest in #Germany, being affected by a leaf miner… 🪰

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Kathryn Hegarty @kathrynhegarty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This #nature inspired #embroidery project is slowly coming along! I definitely see a connection regarding #art & #science. Many of us (myself included) are #visual learners & it helps us understand the world by ‘seeing it with our own eyes’ or be able ‘to touch the surface to feel its texture’.

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