A blue, white, orange, gray and black belted kingfisher sitting on a brown branch against a blue sky fabric collage with spools of navy, orange and blue threads and green scissors sitting alongside

A work in progress shot of the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay- stitching feet
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A blue, orange, white, gray and black fabric collage of a belted kingfisher sitting on a brown branch

Stitch by stitch… A work in progress of the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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My latest #embroidery art 'Tranquility 1'. #needlefelt and embroidery floss, 9cm hoop, about 20 hours to make #spaceart #landscapeart #dreamyart #stars #threadpainting #textileart #blueskyart #asmr

A blue, white, orange, black and gray fabric collage of a belted kingfisher sitting on a brown branch

A work in progress of the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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Incredible how some media (thread) can look like others (paint). Art is magic!!
#repostdaily #supportartists #threadpainting #needlearts #handmade #seal #Greg #gray #whiskers #humanmadeart

A blue, orange , black, gray and white fabric collage of a belted kingfisher against a blue sky background

A work in progress shot on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay-adding feathers
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All done.
My latest cute bird embroidery is finished. A pretty spring tableau.

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A fabric collage of a belted kingfisher created with scraps of navy, royal, orange, white, black and gray. A brown branch and brown and orange threads and a pair of black scissors sit alongside the art.

Blocking in a tree branch work in progress on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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Scraps of various blues make up the sky behind the fabric collage of a belted Kingfisher created in navy, royal, white, black, gray and orange fabrics. Spools of matching colored threads and a pair of black curved scissors sit alongside

Blocking in feathers work in progress on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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Almost done.

I really enjoy working on cute, colorful birds.

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A square linen background with a hand embroidered portrait of a white female face with brown outline of hair which has a big thread tangle on the upper left hand side. The head is turned to the right, only the section from the eyebrows across to the cheekbones and down to the mouth is hand embroidered in detail. In the lower right, next to the mouth is a huge thread tangle.

Here is the other winning portrait.
"The Clarity Of Untangling The Threads (portrait of a stitch artist) 5"
Hand embroidery artwork.
#PortraitArt #embroidery #ThreadPainting

An embroidery of a colorful hello cake with whipped cream and cherry on top over a light green silk fabric

A little Jello Embroidery #art #Embroidery #threadpainting #fiberart #artsky

The fabric collage consists of various blue scraps with white for the breast and a black beak. Green scissors are alongside

Work in progress on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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A square artwork. The background is a patchwork of plain black fabric and white fabric which has red, yellow and blue paint and some black machine stitching. On top is a hand embroidered white female face wearing black glasses with brown eyes, the head turned two thirds to the right. The left eye is hidden by a large tangle of multi coloured threads. The rest of the head is sketchy and incomplete with the eye and mouth stitched in detail.

Thought I'd share a better view of my winning portraits.
"The Clarity Of Untangling The Threads (portrait of a stitch artist) 2"
Hand embroidery artwork.
#PortraitArt #artist #embroidery #ThreadPainting

A kingfisher created with scraps of various blue fabrics with a black beak. Green scissors sit beside it.

Work in progress on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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A textile illustration using scraps of various blue fabrics with a black beak and white feathering near the eye. Green scissors sit beside it

Work in progress on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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A fabric collage - background is in various shades of blue with the eye and beak in black, white and gray

Eye and beak completed on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
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A flamingo created with scraps of pink, peach, red, coral and rose fabrics on a blue and green background - spools of pink shades of threads are alongside

Slowly a flamingo in Carmague France appears
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A fox created in orange, red, rust, gold, brown, peach, black and white fabrics agains a background of teal, green and gold hand embroidered fabrics

Stitch by stitch the fox appears
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Background for the fabric collage created in scraps of various blues with a tiny bit of pink and lavender

The background has begun for the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay

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A fabric collage in scraps of blue fabric on a cream background with green scissors alongside

A Belted Kingfisher just moved into our backyard - time to create a portrait #threadpainting #textileart #illustration.

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The fox was created with orange, gold, gray, white, brown and rust fabrics and threads.

Close up of a fox created by intense free motion #threadpainting #textileart #illustration.

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A square silver leather background with a hand embroidered kingfisher head and shoulders in profile looking up to the left.

"Silver Fisher"
Hand embroidery on leather.
A throwback to 2020
I was lurking down at the harbour recently in the hope to see any of the local Kingfishers. It was a fail. They will be heading off soon, spring is nearly here!
#ThreadPainting #embroidery #WildlifeArt #Birds

Embroidered blue bird with large orange flower and 3D ruffle pink ‘raspberries’.

Closeup of blue bird and flowers.

All done. My finished February embroidery.

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A black and silver longarm sewing machine with a textile illustration of a black and white striped herd of zebra against a blue and teal body of water with pink and purple mountains

Creating a herd of zebra splashing in Tanzania with lots of #threadpainting #textileart #illustration.

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Embroidery I’m working on. Just a little birdie to go.

#threadpaint #fiberart #hobbies #womensart #threadpainting #flowers #random #birds #embroidery

Finito.
Liking the extra details.
#embroidery #threadpainting

Finally finished the piece! ✨️✨️
Decided to add the #triforce as a chest piece last minute~
Does it look like a #twilightprincess sweatshirt?~

#threadpainting #tloz #handmade #embeoidery #craftsky

Finally workingthis again 🎉
It is proceeding well, especially after @slavetothestitch.bsky.social 's suggestion to use a Beechwood hoop! So much easier to work with! 😍
New question is, do you guys embroider details before or after the bg colour?

#embroidery
#threadpainting
#handmade
#handembroided

My first embroidery of the year.
A bouquet of colorful peonies.

#threadpaint #fiberart #hobbies #womensart #threadpainting #flowers #random #keepingbusy #peonies #workinprogress