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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Apr 28

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

The fruit picker and flower border embroidery piece is stitch-complete.

Pictures before and after washing out the soluble, self-adhesive pattern transfer paper. These designs were mostly hand-traced or adapted at the given scale from "501 Enchanting Embroidery Designs".

Stitched design on white cotton, a circle of whimsical cartoon children with oversized fruit shaped hats, apple, strawberry, pear, cherry, and acorn, plus a sun disc, tower house, and birds.

The finished embroidery design, hanging vertically on a wall grid to dry overnight, semi-transparent from water in the white cotton dishcloth base fabric.

#Embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Apr 10

Apr 10

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Three of nine characters stitch-complete. Two pear characters and the acorn hat character are done. A pair each of cherry, strawberry, and apple pickers remain.

A white cotton dishcloth folded to bring three stitched cartoon figures close together. The central figure is wearing an acorn cap, and is flanked by two with pear shaped hats.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Apr 5

Apr 5

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Starting on the characters' faces with the mouth and cheeks of the pear hat girl. Mouth: single strand hot pink. Cheek spots: double strand pale pink.

Embroidery work in progress, a cartoon sketch mostly stitched of a figure wearing an oversized green pear shaped hat topped with a stem and leaf, brown slippers, and a green dress. The face has a stitched pink smiling mouth and round pink cheek spots.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Apr 3 *

Apr 3 *

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

All four baskets finished, for the two strawberry pickers, one for the two cherry pickers, and one for Acorn Hat Boy.

An embroidered white cotton dishcloth mostly worked, folded so that the fruit picking cartoon sketch characters holding baskets are close together.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 29

Mar 29

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Baskets for the fruit pickers. Work in progress.

A white cotton dishtowel embroidered with cartoon sketch characters with giant fruit shaped hats. One figure is a strawberry picker with a gold stitched basket.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

**Levend Lichtje** @LevendLichtje@pixelfed.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Levend Lichtje @LevendLichtje@pixelfed.social

I'm reposting everything from my old Instagram, to keep my archive and have a record of my work's development. I'm adding commentary below the original text.

This is from 27 November 2018
Should I leave this wooden base light? Or should I make it dark(er)? The moss really works the way I hoped! Guess I have to become a felt and embroidery maker too

Not a great picture, but it does show what I like most about social media: being able to ask people questions and get answers. Not always useful ones, but I really like the back and forth with people who see my things. It does help cement ideas a little more, or sometimes change my mind about ideas I had.

#mosstodon #Artwork #ArtistsOnMastodon #embroidery #mushtodon #mushrooms #hand_embroidery

A small mushroom on a long white stalk sits under a tiny glass dome. At its base is a green mound from which it is growing, decorated with green stitches. A power cord trails to the left. The background is a dark wooden desk with drawers.

#hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 22

Mar 22

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

All hats, dresses, shirts, short pants and shoes done, we're now down to baskets, arms. legs, and faces.

Front cover of the design sourcebook, titled "501 Enchanting Embroidery Designs" by Boutique-Sha, showing worked sample design elements.

An overview if the embroidery work in progress including sun disc, a tower house, two birds flying off with cherries, and seven characters with themed fruit shaped hats in a circle around a pair of characters hand in hand with cherry shaped hats.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 20

Mar 20

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Switching to the central design element, two characters wearing cherry shaped hats connected by the cherry stems of the hats converging.

A white cotton dishtowel with embroidery in progress, folded to display two sketch cartoons of fruit pickers with giant hats shaped like cherries. One holds up a little group of cherries and is holding hands with the other who carries a basket supported by a handle in one arm.

#hand_embroidery #embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 18

Mar 18

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Moving on to sewing the apple picker character with hat, shirt and shorts.

Embroidery work in progress, folded to bring two apple pickers and two strawberry pickers close together. Each pair has a matching fruit shaped hat and pose; one of each pair has a dress or a shirt and short pants.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 17

Mar 17

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Commute bus needlework. Strawberry shorts character gets hat and shorts stitched in.

A white cotton dishtowel being embroidered with cartoon sketch cute fruit picking characters. In the hoop is a character wearing a strawberry shaped hat in red and short green pants. The work is folded to show a character wearing a strawberry shaped hat and a red dress. Each has a green collar like the crown of leaves on a strawberry.

#hand_embroidery #embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 15

Mar 15

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Added the small strawberry and a few golden seed stitches on the hat, started the other strawberry hat character.

Embroidery work in progress, two cartoon sketch characters with strawberry shaped hats. The work is folded to bring them close together. The less complete character is in a hoop.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 14

Mar 14

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Worked the strawberry hat during a live taping of NPR's Wild Card at Town Hall Seattle.

At the granite base of a column, needlework in progress with a small person with a large strawberry shaped hat.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 11

Mar 11

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

More commute more needlework. One of the two strawberry pickers with a dress outlined in red. On a bus stop bench.

On a backless, armless vinyl coated metal grid bench, a canvas carry bag lies under a white dishcloth being embroidered with meadow flowers and cartoons of little people picking fruit. In a palm sized wooden hoop is a strawberry picker with a hand basket and a strawberry shaped hat with a green collar like the leaves on a strawberry.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 8

Mar 8

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Reverse and front of work in progress, adding the blue dress and gold hat outline.

A wide view of the reverse (left) and front of an embroidery work in progress, showing cartoon sketches in stitched outline of birds, a tower, and characters with fruit shaped hats. In the embroidery hoop is a character with blue dress and gold apple shaped hat holding a red apple in each hand.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

**Levend Lichtje** @LevendLichtje@mastodon.art · Mar 5

Mar 5

Levend Lichtje @LevendLichtje@mastodon.art

Re: the little swamp witch I showed you yesterday. This is what she looks like now! I thought the white was too bright and clean next to all the mosses, so I made her into a Belgian Hare. (In the background the moss I'm working on)
#SylvanianFamilies #mosstodon #CalicoCritters #embroidery #hand_embroidery @textilearts

My hand holds a small black and brown customized Belgian Hare Sylvanian Families rabbit figurine dressed in a hand-made outfit with a nature-inspired theme. The rabbit wears a green and brown felted hat with a wide brim, slightly floppy, resembling a witch's hat. Its clothing is made of textured, embroidered fabric in shades of green and brown, resembling moss and foliage. In the background, an embroidery hoop with green fabric is visible, along with small embroidered mossy mounds and crafting materials like green thread.

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 4

Mar 4

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

No commute or after dinner story time today, but I took some time during a social conversation teleconference to work on one of the fruit picker's hats.

This time it was the pear person in a dress. I thought of Marlena Compton and her PearConf which I enjoyed attending.

Embroidery in progress, a cartoon sketch of a child wearing a dress and a large pear shapes hat, holding a handful of orange flowers and standing with one foot close to a yellow pear.

#embroidery #hand_embroidery

**Babette** @BabetteFfest · Mar 1

Mar 1

Babette @BabetteFfest

Happy St David's Day! This beautiful piece was made by my friend Ophelia Dos Santos. What a celebration of Wales! #handmade #HandStitching #hand_embroidery #patchwork #StDavidsDay #Wales #inclusion #Diversity #mulitculturalism #handmade

Description by Ophelia on creative process of patchwork

Patchwork quilt (black and white hands and faces) worn by a stunning African woman wearing iconic Welsh hat

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**Jeff Miller (orange hatband)** @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io · Mar 1 *

Mar 1 *

Jeff Miller (orange hatband) @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io

Worked the other apple picker's apples. I decided red again because the apples are small enough that a green or yellow fruit would be ambiguous.

Tonight's chapter from Anne of Green Gables sees her turning thirteen, admiring her new schoolteacher and the new minister's wife, feeling a little let-down after the dramatic Christmas recital and concert, and starting a story writing club with her friend Diana