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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

First day of “art studio on the patio” season! My favorite place to sit and work on rug hooking.

A work in progress is showing fiber art of two pied-billed grebes. Beyond the art you can see trees and spring color, plus a blue sky with white clouds. Technique is rug hooking, hand-dyed and as-is wool on linen.

Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Celebrating International Rug Hooking Day by sharing this detail from recently finished original fiber art titled “Lundi”. #hookedfiberart #rughooking

Original fiber art showing the head, neck and upper chest of an Atlantic Puffin. The puffin has fish in its beak. Techniques and materials include hooked wool, sari silk and art yarn fibers, in addition to hand-sewn sequins and beads.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."

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I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids

Perhaps controversially.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I made this textile last year for my sister. Her partner just finished the bench and upholstery work. It is great to see it all together! #fiberart #functionalart

A wooden bench with hooked fiber art upholstered to the sides and top. The fiber art depicts a sperm whale swimming through blue waves, with air bubbles rising above. The fiber art is wool on linen, using rug hooking and quillie techniques.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Experimenting with painting wool fabric using Inktense for application in an upcoming project. Need to refine a bit, but I think this will give me what I’m going for. #inktense #paintingwool

A piece of white wool fabric with a variety of fuchsia and shiraz painting swatches showing different values. Also shown are two Inktense pencils and three brushes — a scrubber, a water brush and an angled brush.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Artist date to the Phillips Museum of Art at F&M to see Sue Reno’s beautiful work inspired by the Susquehanna River. It was great to take in all of the detail in her techniques, design and materials. The current exhibits are there through Apr. 24. #fiberartistdate #fiberartinspiration

A wall with three quilt/fiber art pieces by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A wall with a quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. All pieces were inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A close-up of a panel in a quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m a self-taught artist and books are part of my “curriculum”. I’m away from my studio for a few days, but I’m making good use of my time in a family lounge at Penn with these books plus my journal. #selftaughtartist #womensworkart #fiberartist

Photo shows the covers of 2 books, Eyes Open to the World by Karen Miller under the book Unravelling Women’s Art by P. L. Henderson. Both books have bookmarks poking out of the top. The book on top, Unravelling Women’s Art, shows a female head and shoulders (no clothes).
The woman’s head is wrapped in white string with some hair and facial features showing through. In front of her mouth is a large mess of thread so you can’t see her mouth at all. The image is by Alia Ali.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If you're looking for details for your calls, House Dems produced this tool where you can how many people in your district are at risk of losing jobs, health care, and food on the table from the House GOP budget. "For the sake of the X people in CA-54 who will lose their Medicaid, please vote no."

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The Republican Rip Off

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Whimsical linden tree seed pods depicted in multimedia fiber art — pin loom weaving, hooking, embroidery. #fiberart #pinloomweaving #rughooking #art

Rectangular fiber art of a hand-woven background fabric in green, red-violet, and yellow-orange variegated wool yarn with hooked and embroidered motif of two linden tree seed pods in off white colors. The border is chain-stitched in the same yarn as the weaving. The dried seed pods are laying beside the fiber art.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/02/2025

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just spent a fun afternoon making mini fiber art in @lizbessel.bsky.social class through In The Studio Online. #miniart #fiberart #loveoflearning

A piece of fiber art in a square shape. The color palette includes red-orange, blues, white, light yellow, yellow green, brown, and bright coral. The fibers are fabric, yarn and roving in wool, cotton, silk and nylon. Techniques used are hooking, embroidery and needle felting.

A piece of fiber art in a square shape, next to a quilting ruler showing the size is 2” x 2”. The color palette includes red-orange, blues, white, light yellow, yellow green, brown, and bright coral. The fibers are fabric, yarn and roving in wool, cotton, silk and nylon. Techniques used are hooking, embroidery and needle felting.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My first piece of pottery! Went to date night at Lititz Clay Studio last month — highly recommend. It was a lot of fun! And harder than it looks 😂

A small pottery bowl with blue and purple glaze sitting on a table

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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s only been three weeks, but already I am exhausted by my own fury. I emailed Kate DiCamillo and asked for help. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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Opinion | Tenderness as an Act of Resistance (Gift Article)

They are trying to overwhelm us and force us to look away. But we must not.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I tried Rachelle LeBlanc’s gallery finish on this piece and I’m very happy with how this turned out. The tonal wool yarn was perfect for the row of chain stitch between the loops and binding. Visit the shop on her website for a video tutorial on this finish. #fiberart #finishingtechnique

Close up photo showing the edge of a piece of hooked art. There is a row of chain stitch in a green blue tonal yarn between the green and light peach hooked loops of the work and the taupe binding tape stitched to the back of the work.

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Marina Richie @kingfisherjourney.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

substack.com/inbox/post/1... With thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for inspiration.

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I Care Deeply About...

How to Take Back Our Power

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Artist date yesterday at the Barnes Foundation. Philly has great museums and this is one of the best. I highly recommend it — and do the tour to learn not only about the collection but also Dr. Barnes’ interesting story. #artistdate

Painting hanging on a wall at the Barnes Foundation — Paul Cezanne, Village at the Water’s Edge. It is a landscape showing a village, hills, sky and water in a palette that includes blue, terra-cotta, yellow and green.

A gallery wall of paintings at the Barnes Foundation showing 14 paintings plus various pieces of ironwork Dr. Barnes chose to hang with the art. The wall of paintings shows the symmetry in how he displayed the collection.

A corner shot of a room at the Barnes Foundation showing 8 paintings and the ironwork Dr. Barnes displayed with the paintings. Also shown are decorative furniture, pottery and a sampler textile he chose to show with these paintings.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sewing and snowing here, with views on my work table and just outside my studio on this cold January Sunday in south central PA. #hookedart #hookedfiberart #artwip

Needle and thread, stitching the binding on the back of a piece of hooked fiber art

Snow on the winter remains of clematis, muhly grass and rudbeckia

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A kid on my bball team was having a rough time, so I sat down with him and listened and made him feel heard and took time to lift him up in a genuine way... and I am telling you, this is how you get through the next 4 years. Human by human.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m ready to start the finishing on this piece. Did you know that barn swallows eat almost exclusively on the wing?

Fiber art of a barn swallow flying above farm fields. Medium is hooked wool and silk.

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I’m a fiber artist, but I dabble with other mediums. This year I’m keeping a nature observation visual journal as part of my creative practice. Winter week 3 is for winterberries.

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Susan Feller @sfeller24.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Introducing Elizabeth Miller from Maine who is one of the nine artists in ‘Stories are Made Loop by Loop’ at its last venue the Schwenkfelder Library in Pennsburg, PA thru March 30. There is a digital catalog available at issuu.com/susanfeller/...

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

After reading Margaret Renkl’s book The Comfort of Crows, I was inspired to add a weekly nature observation to my journaling practice. Fall week 9 was all about a FOTS white-throated sparrow I watched on a morning walk. Highly recommend this practice!

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

Word Crunching

I
wrote
a poem
on a page
but then each line grew
to the word sum of the previous two
until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency
because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency

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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio @woolybirdstudio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I can’t decide what I like best in this view from my walk this morning — the blue sky, the warm sunlight on the tree trunks or the features of the split rail fence exaggerated in the shadows on the path. No, it is definitely those shadows!

scene of a walking path lined with split rail fence and late fall trees, blue sky, and shadows of the fence on the path

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