Totally missed #WorldEmbroideryDay due to busy-ness at work. Anyway, here’s two of the current projects. Trying #goldwork for the 1st time with Hand and Lock kit and working on recreating Jane Austen’s handkerchief for Cassandra.
Women’s Work (2024) is an artwork created by Ruth Broadway from patches sent to us by over 100 contributors as part of our Patchwork Object Project. The object was made in Bristol in late 2024 and is composed of 195 patches, including the 148 patches we recieved from contributors around the world. It is a multimedia work that responds to the long tradition of banner making in feminist art; a pole can be threaded through loops of fabric at the top of the work, for it to be hung, carried, marched, celebrated. A fringe of tassels at the bottom of the work responds to textural elements in the patchwork and compounds the jubilant mood of the work. Contributing artists, makers, and crafters responded to a call for patches themed around "women's creative identities and lives". Women's Work is the result of that collaboration. More information about the call can be found on the home and "About" pages of this website.
Yesterday was #WorldEmbroideryDay! To celebrate, take a look at the Patchwork Object: Women's Work that was made as part of The Art of Fiction project. It is made of 195 multimedia patches responding to the theme "women's creative identities and lives"
#DHLab #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities
omg #WorldEmbroideryDay....... embroidery is the hobby i picked up for "relaxation" and "just doing whatever." i like it a lot!!!!!
my current project is a seal for my office. one day i will embroider a comic. (smiling)
A close-up photo of an unfinished piece of blackwork embroidery on black Aida cloth. Small white geometric motifs are repeated in a grid pattern around 16 blank squares. Three of the squares in the most distant row are filled with blue thread, but the motif is out of focus.
Celebrating #WorldEmbroideryDay by finally beginning to add some colour to my #blackwork WIP.
A gold and brown picture frame holds a cross stitched image on black fabric. A colorful bright neon cat skeleton outlined by the shape of the cat. The cat sits in a lifelike pose and is surrounded by large flowers that look like carnations or roses. The colors of the bones match the colors of the flowers in vibrant blues, pinks, purples and bright white.
A gold and brown picture frame holds a cross stitched image on black fabric. A colorful bright neon cat skeleton outlined by the shape of the cat. The cat sits in a lifelike pose and is surrounded by large flowers that look like carnations or roses. The colors of the bones match the colors of the flowers in vibrant blues, pinks, purples and bright white.
Apparently, it’s #WorldEmbroideryDay so here are a couple of fun things I’ve done. The frames are too small and hide a lot of my work, but they were the only ones I could find
I heard it was #worldembroideryday so here is my most recent favorite project of mine of Terra from Final Fantasy VI
Oh shit I forgot my tardigrade! #WorldEmbroideryDay
Christian Dior by Marc Bohan, Black woven wool jacket bead embroidered with seahorses, Spring-Summer 1989, amber glass beads, baguette beads, blue faceted beads and pearls, one hammered gold-tone metal button Source : Sothebys, auctioned 10 July 2025 #BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #ChristianDior #MarcBohan #Sothebys #BeadEmbroidery #InternationalBeadingWeek #WorldEmbroideryDay
Christian Dior by Marc Bohan, black woven wool jacket bead embroidered with seahorses, Spring-Summer 1989
Source : Sothebys, auctioned 10 July 2025
#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads
#InternationalBeadingWeek #WorldEmbroideryDay
An oversized red and white striped T-shirt. On one side of it there are two fish and a couple of water bubbles strategically embroidered to cover up stains.
Apparently it’s #WorldEmbroideryDay
This is my first ever attempt at embroidery to save a beloved T-shirt of mine (it was permanently stained). I used a template for the first fish but then figured I can just “draw” my own for the rest. So much fun!
I want to do more but here are some pieces I’ve done or am working on #WorldEmbroideryDay
A compilation of 12 photos of my embroidery pieces. Some are stitched words or line drawings in backstitch. Some are thread paintings. Ex There is one rectangular redwork piece in a frame, which is a stitched poem entitled ‘redwork’ and one piece that is a simple house design stitched on a mini canvas. The other ten are all in circular embroidery hoops. There are positive messages in the pieces with words. For example, the first piece in the top left, an embroidery piece in a hoop, with freehand words stitched in red. In the centre is a heart, around which is the phrase ‘create & chat’. All the words begin with the letter C. There are some flowers stitched with daisy chain stitch, and heart motifs. The stitched words are: contentment, conversation, calm, cherish, cozy, cheer, connect, craft, companions, comfortable. The bottom left piece is an embroidery ‘thread painting’ in an orange hoop. The scene is a pond in the woods. A tiny figure in the centre stands on a hillock just beyond the water. There are patches of ground stitched in orange and russet, where there is a carpet of fallen larch tree needles. The last piece, at the bottom right, is an unfinished embroidery in a detailed thread painting style, of a woodland scene, framed in a green embroidery hoop. The large central tree is growing on rock. In the foreground, the purples in the rock strata have been accentuated.
Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay ☺️
Some pieces from my embroidery journey 2021-2025 (the last one is still unfinished)
Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay! As a beginner, it's been wonderfully inspiring seeing everyone's creative and unusual pieces. Hopefully next year I can show something of my own :)
It's #WorldEmbroideryDay! Here are some things I've embroidered in the past year that I'm especially proud of.
Happy World Embroidery Day - Part II Techniques. I have been privileged to take classes from experts in different embroidery techniques. I will rephotograph my pieces because they deserve better. #WorldEmbroideryDay #handembroidery #embroidery #crewelembroidery
#goldwork #hardanger #stumpwork
Flower and leaf embroidery on a huge embroidery hoop over a cream background with green leaves, and an appliqué moth in progress in the distance
Getting this big thing out again for #WorldEmbroideryDay 🪡✨
Happy World Embroidery Day - Part I Remembrances of My Pets. I enjoy combining my two loves. I changed the animal colors in all of these pieces to reflect my greyhounds and my Siamese cats. #WorldEmbroideryDay #handembroidery #embroidery
Embroidered and painted melting ice cube.
It's #worldembroideryday ! Pick up some thread or yarn and a needle of some sort and share your creativity. Stitch your thoughts!
#embroidery #threadandneedle #stitching #contemporaryfiberart #newmexicofiberarts #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #rughookingteacher #highonhooking
A square framed natural coloured cotton fabric with an 8-inch circular embroidery in it. The embroidery is of a section of canyon, with blur and green stitching showing a river at the bottom. Contours of the canyon walls are yellow, ocre, into orange and creamsicle, and show off the water erosion pattern in satin stitching.
A contour canyon within an 8-inch circle, with a vegetation lined river down the middle. Hand embroidered, featuring primarily satin stitches and french knots.
#WorldEmbroideryDay #embroidery
Mini crossbody bag has an embroidered and appliqued bird on the outer flap. Black cotton twill with black paracord strap.
Interior of minibag is lined with cotton print of abstract trees on an ivory background and has three separate pockets .
For #WorldEmbroideryDay I thought I 'd share this little bird crossbody bag I made with #upcycled fabric scraps. The bird is #handstitched #applique and #embroidery on cotton twill. Lots of inside pockets too. If you'd like to make it yours, it's available in my online shop. See bio for link.
#WorldEmbroideryDay perfect day to check out Emily’s work…
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photo of my hand holding a large embroidery hoop with my sister and me as Greg and Wirt from Over the Garden Wall. She is holding out grey tabby Eevee instead of a toad and our little owl Puppo is sitting on my knee instead of Beatrice. My sister has long red hair and i'm wearing glasses but the rest is in the same OTGW style. There is a happy pumpkim and leaf branches creating a border with little smiley mushrooms at the bottom.
embroidery of Blathers from Animal Crossing, surrounded by fossils (grey skulls and a blue shell in a rock), surrounded by stars. a bit wonky but the second embroidery I've ever made, personal design.
four small embroidery hoops in 4 different colors (from top left: blue, pink, green, yellow) depicting a tea-rex, a tyrannosaurus rex holding a cup of tea in their teeny hand.
oh there are some wonderful pieces for #WorldEmbroideryDay
I don't have the time to do large pieces so I now do silly pieces, but they all bring people joy so it is good 🧵🪡
A wool embroidery in autumnal colours with flowers and insects.
And here is the finished version, once I'd mounted and backed it.
#WorldEmbroideryDay
Documentation of the needlework - letters and newspaper clipping, with the instructions, and the embroidery (just started) on a frame.
Correction - that's the Royal School of Needlework.
#WorldEmbroideryDay
Anyway, here's where it started:
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The Helmgast logo embroidered on red and gold thread on a black t-shirt. It resembles a monstrous raven with tentacles, and a crown above.
The four titans from Breath of the Wild; a camel in yellow, a lizard in pink, an elephant in blue and a bird in green.
A celtic knotwork pattern of a clover, the stems outlined in pale green, the blossoms in fluffy French knots in various shades of pink on a black background.
A black tote bag with an embroidery of cursive script in light-to-darker-green variegated floss. It says "the fucker hasn't been born who will be allowed to ruin TEA for me".
Oh, it's #WorldEmbroideryDay? I've mostly been mending lately because my eyes give me grief, but here are some of my favourite pieces, mostly done in the Covid years.
A wool-work embroidery in autumnal colours with flowers and butterflies.
Apparently it's #WorldEmbroideryDay, so here's something I did a few years ago.
It was the completion of an autumn-themed needlepoint tapestry from the Royal College of Embroidery that my grandmother had started many years ago, which I took on to complete.
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#WorldEmbroideryDay was started in 2011 by Skåne Sy-d, a local group of Broderiakademin, the Swedish Embroiderer’s Guild, as a call to recognize embroidery as a way to bring forth peace and creative understanding. You can read the full manifesto here: tacklebony.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/embr...
Hand embroidered chart in a circle that is part of a bigger work showing that in 1926 scientist knew that the percentage of immature blue whales caught (58%) was not sustainable. The hand embroidered text is exquisitely precise and took ages.
Sharing something for #WorldEmbroideryDay that still makes me angry a year after I #HandEmbroidered it.
In 1926 the Discovery Expedition knew that the proportion of immature Blue whales killed in the South Atlantic indicated that it was not sustainable. And yet we kept on for decades…
world embroidery day!! a good day to share the sets I’ve completed and really enjoyed doing 🫶
#embroideryart #worldembroideryday
the wandering ghost (2024) An image of an old engraving of a vagus nerve embroidered on green cotton. The main nerve lines are in blue chain stitch in perlé cotton. The brain and some of the face is in the same thread in backstitch. Details in the face are in single strand floss. A bright red anatomical heart is in whipped back stitch. Around it a bright golden yellow halo in a vesica piscis shape is in single strand thread. Three sets of ribs are in bright green/yellow stem stitch. There are some tiny details in different colours along some of the nerves. Burgundy roiling with sparse tiny black French knots are in the gut area. The nerve endings in the diaphragm area are lengthened with one and two strand whipped back stitch. Lia’s initials are stitched in green thread in the bottom right.
heart vortices (2016) An embroidery on bone coloured linen. There is a swirling pattern in a vague heart shape stitched in burgundy back stitch. Poetry around the heart is stitched in tan and reads: whorl of fingertips. Apex and infundibulum. Fibres sway downwards in vortices. Papillary heart. Wings wrapt.
mitosis sampler: summer (2024) Two reproductive cells dividing embroidered on off-white linen. The edges of the dividing egg cells and the nucleus membranes are in bright acid green split stitch. A circle of dark green stem stitch is started for the cell membrane. The corona radiata is in sage green zig zag chain stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in sage green bullion stitch. The polar bodies are stitched in purple single strand back stitch. The cytoplasm is in variegated dark to bright green thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch on the lower right.
woman in skull (2016) An embroidery on bone coloured linen of the inside of a human skull looking down from a cut open top done in thin black thread. The textures make it look like the Vesalius woodcut it is based on. In the bottom left corner of the skull there is the tiny silhouette of a woman done in bronze thread.
It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay ! I make #SciArt #embroidery of #anatomy and #symptomatology. After I got sick with #MECFS in 2015 I started stitching as a more restorative creative practice than my previous music and theatre work.
