#embroidery progress shot!

#Sketch and #ink in progress. Will add #watercolor shortly

Starry sky in progress! This is a tricky design to pull off, I hope it turns out well. I like the challenge though. ☺️ #embroidery #embroider

I made myself a bag yesterday to carry notebooks and sketchbooks in. ☺️ I’m not quite at the skill level yet where I will sell things I sew - but maybe eventually!

Some #drawing and #painting tonight ☺️

Sometimes I finish an #embroidery, but then weeks later, it irks me and I just have to go back and figure out what’s not right. That’s what this one is. It’s not quite ready yet, and took some experimentation, but it’s far closer. Sometimes going back to a finished piece is a good thing. ☺️

Sewing a new #embroidery and checking out Side Story of Fox Volant tonight. ☺️ Something not many people know about me is that I LOVE wuxia media (martial arts in ancient China). #wuxia #sidestoryoffoxvolant

It’s pretty cliche to do #sunsets for art, I know. But I really enjoy their complexity and trying to capture them through #embroidery. 🤷🏻‍♀️💜

Done and in the #Etsy shop. As always, handstitched, no patterns. 💜 www.etsy.com/listing/4325... #embroidery

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

Halfway done. This is the background. ☺️ #embroidery

Rounding the corner on this #embroidery!

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A bit of #sketching and #inking before starting the work week.

Being chronically ill is not lazy. Resting when your body needs it is not lazy. Saying “no” is not lazy. Taking care of yourself is not lazy. Ableism teaches us to guilt ourselves for respecting our body & its limits. Change the narrative. Taking care of yourself is powerful.

Rounding the corner finally on this big #embroidery.

I'm making something and it's not going to add up to anything useful and that's the whole point. You can, too. www.agentsandbooks.com/p/making-som...

This was nice to get in the mail on a gray and cold Monday morning. Thanks, Artful Dodge! 💜 #poetry

Working on a novel? Create a reference book like this. 💜 it’s so helpful when things get complex.

So much sewing. 😅 #embroidery

This #embroidery is finally done and on sale! www.etsy.com/listing/1882...

That’s what I enjoy the most. Y’all have no idea how savage Canadians have always been. ☺️ Americans have never seen it up close before, but it’s always been there. 🇨🇦

Saturday night. Watching the #lecce replay game and working on #embroidery.

I learned how to #quilt this winter - this is my first one and I love it. 💜

I keep getting sucked back into this book by @gigigriffis.bsky.social when I should be doing other things. Time slips when I read this (isn’t that the best feeling?) and it’s sparking inspiration to return to a story idea I’ve had in the wings….

Rounding the corner on this #embroidery!

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Oh, look, my #novel (in revisions) is showing up in real life. 😁 I swear I will finish witch/machine this year. I’d better, if my ideas are actually starting to happen in reality. 😅 #writing

New #embroidery in the works! I think this one has the potential to be a real stunner. ☺️💜

Years and years of living in the States, and I still have to use my temperature converter app to truly understand the cold. ☺️🤷🏻‍♀️ 9F? I have no idea what that means. -12C? know exactly the level of bundling up to go outside. #canadian

Oooh, I might need to do this class. Learn the basics and then make some weird shit like a quilted Cthulhu. 😆

#quilt preview - I love how this is coming together. This is so me. 😁💜

Wanting to acknowledge all my trans and non-binary friends. He is attacking you for no reason than you asked for space to be yourself. Millions of us have your backs.

New larger #embroidery underway!

Silly, but a bit delighted that I know just about every song in The Day of the Jackal. ☺️ great soundtrack.

One more #embroidery ornament made before the Anti-Robot marketplace tomorrow in #pvd.

Coming soon to both the #Etsy shop and marketplace next Saturday! One made for luck and prosperity, the other for cleansing and promoting good vibes. 💜

Just listed on #Etsy! Proud of this #embroidery, and it's worth the $90 tag. thistleandcrowstudio.etsy.com/listing/1641...

Redesigning EKO’s #selfpublished book cover from 2016, with my updated Thistle & Crow brand. I haven’t highlighted my previous stuff enough. Maybe too preoccupied with what’s new? But you know? I still love this book 💜 and it’s nice to give it a fresh look. #selfpublishedauthor

#Embroidery sale on #Etsy! All one-of-a-kind handmade pieces are 25% off until 1/8/24. www.etsy.com/shop/Thistle... #etsysale #etsysalesevent #etsystore #embroideryart #crossstitch #redflowers #poppiesfield

Just about done with this new #embroidery! Going to have a big #crossstitch sale very soon on #Etsy, stay tuned.

Moving into the second half of this #embroidery!

New #embroidery in the works. This is the background ☺️ #embroideryart #embroiderydesign #embroidered

✨SALE!✨ in my Etsy Shop! Save 20% off all items, plus #freeshipping, until 12/17. #etsysale #handmadeart #embroidery www.etsy.com/shop/ThistleAndCrowStudio

Spending the weekend deep in the New Hampshire mountains to work on this, and other pieces. Looking like the first full #poetry collection. 💜 also yes, when your little inn has proper tea and actual boiling water you get two cups. ☺️ #newhampshire #mountainlove