Janey Colbourne

Wow, thank you 🥹

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you so much! 🥰

That’s brilliant!

Stunning work!

Forgot to say, these are all hand embroidery

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)

Hand embroidered ‘thread painting’ work in progress, depicting a woodland scene, with a central tree growing on rock, and framed in a green hoop.

Incredibly slow progress on my #HandEmbroidery #ThreadPainting

#WIPWednesday

Isn’t it appalling? Getting a glimmer of satisfaction that she’s actually trending on FB now because of it

The article that got #RebeccaSolnit FB account disabled. They are also taking it down if anyone else shares it.

Screenshot of a search box, showing that Rebecca Solnit is ‘popular now’

I know it’s small consolation, and a weird irony, but you’re popular right now on FB

I couldn’t think of anyone with more integrity than you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Their bias is so blatant now. It’s appalling and very, very worrying

What a lovely idea!

I like all of them 🥰

Fair enough 😂 after all, it is morning

Morning. Why bloody hell?

Gorgeous work!

Today I’d like to #LiftToTheSky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for starting #LiftToTheSky an absolutely joyful, positive, community-building concept. Thank you 🥰

Bluesky is an "echo chamber" but Twitter is some kind of what, salon? An egalitarian agora where ideas are respectfully exchanged?

Twitter is a smoking Cybertruck with a greasy dude reeking of Axe Body Spray offering Circus Peanuts out of the back seat. I have no interest in getting into that ride.

Briliant! 😂

That would explain why they’re happy for social media AI to steal artists’ work and for us to have to ‘opt out’

Two fabric pieces in the shape of ginkgo leaves, in two shades of green. The dark green leaf has the words resilience and strength embroidered on it. The bright green leaf has the words hope and endurance embroidered in it.

A selection of textile pieces laid out on a bright green background as part of a banner work in progress, including a cross stitch piece that reads ‘Brain Health Breakthrough’ circled by crocheted hands that are linked together. There are crochet sunflowers and a heart, and two pink Suffolk puffs in the shape of hearts.

Various leaf shapes in three shades of green cotton fabric, laid out on a coffee table.

My personal embroidery has taken a bit of a backseat as I’m working on a community textile project with our #LongCovidSupport group at #BrainHealthBreakthroughCIC
Some beautiful contributions from our group members

#CommunityArts #LongCovidBanner
#crochet #embroidery #CrossStitch #WIP #TextileArt

And now there’s a doge within a doge as Trump pretends he’s abolished it when really he’s taken it over

I have it very mildly. I feel a bit panicky and embarrassed when it happens. It’s exhausting to desperately try and mask it (that pun was unintended 😂 but I like it). I am neurodivergent (AuDHD)

But surely this is the real reality? And what we humans tend to call reality is some weird fantasy world we created amongst ourselves?

No fkn way 😲 I had no idea today was the international day of forests until just after I shared this post!
#synchronicity

“When the Amazon is in flood - deep enough to submerge well-grown trees entirely, over an area not far short of England - the fish feed on fruit & river dolphins race through the upper branches of what should be the canopy”

Colin Tudge
The Secret Life of Trees

#naturewriting #thesecretlifeoftrees

Harriet McBryde Johnson: disabled people take conditions that people would never ask for and make beautiful, thriving lives out of them. We have to remind ourselves that there will always be disabled people living thriving lives. There will always be moments of beauty and joy.
#LongCovid #ME/CFS

Oscar Wilde’s prison door on display at an exhibition. It is a dirty yellow, heavy door with rivets, and multiple locks and bolts. The artist statement beside it reads, ‘In 1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned with hard labour on the charge of gross indecency. Behind this cell door Wilde wrote De Profundis as a letter to his lover on his allocated four sheets of paper per day. He died destitute three years after release at the age of 46.’

This is Oscar Wilde’s prison door which I saw at Queer Britain in London a couple of years ago. It’s titled ‘We Who Live in Prison’. I’ve written out the artist statement in the alt text. Seeing it in person was powerfully poignant.