Lela

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎵

On the tools yesterday...the embroidery machine that is.
Pattern and threads from Echidna Sewing ..love these Bush Buddies, they stitched up really well.
The Quokka is my favourite 💚

#imakestuff #lelamakesstuff
#machineembroidery #australianbushxmas

I'm making the switch back. Feels kind of rebellious to listen to something and not be monitored.

A detail of an artwork by textile artist Deidre Robb. The image shows small sections of five embroidered tape measures. The embroidery is worked in dark grey and gold threads on white linen. The repeating patterns measure time, not size.

My work 'Time well spent' is a finalist in the Trades Hall Art Prize 2025. I can't make it to the exhibition opening in Melbourne next week, but maybe someone out there can?

Details here:
www.weareunion.org.au/art_prize_op...

#TextileArt #Embroidery #CreateAgainstTheMachine

Making a sweet project that will be a gift. Hoping to finish it by early next year 🌸

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It’s January 27 and already this year feels deeply wearying.

Exactly

I'm Australian, heard a snippet from a comment on tiktok about P2025. Found the document and was mindblown that this wasn't big news. This was about Sept last year.
I put it it in Chatgpt....nothing. no matter how I worded my question, it would not give me info.
I'm convinced this was intentional

Making a sweet machine embroidered elf girl. Machine embroidery is new to me and (mostly) enjoying the challenge.
#machineembroidery #sewing #imakestuff

I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.

In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.

Hi Jenn, I will do this. Is it possible to ask your reasons for this. I'm new to Bluesky and perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but I thought creating a list of people is an excellent way for me to go through and group people I really want to follow and see their posts. I love embroidery 🩵

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

mood -

I started organising people into lists. I like following everyone, but for my niche interest areas...I put those people in individual lists so I can have some structure

Left hand holding a bunch of purple carrots that have been picked from my garden

Picking purple carrots from my garden. Loving the simple things

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Welcome
I did the same. I don't crochet but I sew. ☺️

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bad art is always beautiful because it means someone is learning how to be creative in this day and age. despite it all

A photo of a cross stitch pattern in an embroidery hoop on black Aida fabric that says "smash the patriarchy" - 5 yellow flowers with green leaves and stems branch out beneath the text.

All done 🙂‍↕️

The huge increase in activity on bluesky in the last week feels like the first time we could potentially have a viable alternative to twitter. Keep it up! We can do this people!

Ok, guys. I'm tired...
Welcome to your new home.

Just remember, this isn't Twitter. It's more like the old Twitter, before fuck face ruined it. Try to keep that in mind as you look around and start making new friends.

❤️'s and 🔄's are really important & appreciated here.

Love you guys
Xoxo

👋 just joined today.

Self sown pumpkin and tomatoes in my garden going wild. In a world full of chaos, nature is therapeutically grounding 💚