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@pardalotemakes.com

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I make strange textile things: birds, beetles, embroidery, oddities and weirdlings. I live in Vic, Aus. I have a little online shop and some workshops: https://bio.site/pardalote

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 19d

I am excited to announce that I will be showing how I make these bird brooches at the Making Zen online retreat!
There will be 30 artists presenting during the week, and it’s free to watch each presentation for 24 hours when it airs - October 27-31, 2025!
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Felt brooches in many colours, stitched with whimsical birdlike features. There is a group of five brooches posed on a white background.

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 10h

Thank you! I am really enjoying playing with colour at the moment <3

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 11h

New shape! A small plummy purply shape I finished today as a kind of colour test. I wasn't sure if it would be okay with a white edge, but I think it works.

Already stitching the next one :D

#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint

Four stitched shapes on a white background. Each shape is a soft arched D shape with a geometric pattern in different colours.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 1d

Red panda?

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emre meydan @thresfold.bsky.social · Aug 27

roughly 28x28 cm / 11x11 inches

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 20d

Line Drawing, Sketch Printed on Fabriano Paper

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 7d

Thank you! <3

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 7d

This looks like so much fun. I want to do this too! What did you ise to build the hypercubes?

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 7d

I love this!

Adrienne Hestenes @ahestenes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ta daaa! I give you the Lorentz Attractor thanks to the free pattern from #ThreadedTheorems and also @samjshah.bsky.social whose posted work I admired.

#StemBroidery #MathArt #MathSky

An embroidery in a circular hoop of the Lorentz Strange Attractor. Embroidered using backstitch and variegated thread of colors aqua, indigo, and pink. The pattern loops around giving a two lobed appearance of a butterfly.

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 9d

Another green rectangle
#handembroidery #textileart

A rectangle stitched in geometric pattern in shades of green and grey.

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Tumble @tumbleosity.bsky.social · 13d

Kicking off the keychain bats with a slight variation of my original Clown Bat
#clownbat #keychain #handmadeplush

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Em Kait @vladhat.bsky.social · 13d

We are so back. We are SO back. 🐀🇫🇷👑 Working on the second panel of the Reign rat triptych.

#linocut #workinprogress #art #printmaking #rats #crafts #traditionalart #fanart #artsky #printsky

Partially carved linocut block dyed red with a Pfiel tool and a hand visible with aqua blue nails. Block is lined out with images of rats doing costume drama stuff in a cutaway dollhouse style castle. Carved rat is hanging by his tail sipping tea while peeping on another rat reading a Handmaiden's spicy private journal.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 14d

These are so beautiful!

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 14d

New shapes.
#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #crochet #canvaswork #needlepoint

Three embroidered shapes, longish rectangles arranged on a white background. The shapes are embroidered in shades of green and grey in geometric patterns and edged in white.

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 17d

I love that! :D

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 18d

A new green shape, stitched and ready for edging.
#embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint #shapes

An embroidered shape, in greens and greys. The white mesh fabric it's stitched on is visible around the edge. The stitches are simple straight stitches in different lengths forming simple geometric areas.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 19d

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 23d

The home stretch

A Korean silk embroidery project. Mulitcolor and gold silk thread on red silk. Birds flowers butterflies

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 21d

Some small green shapes. I pulled these out this afternoon to help me make choices on the larger pieces I’m working on.

#embroidery #textileart

Greenish stitched shapes on a white background. The shapes are stitched in simple short stitches that completely cover the fabric in geometric patterns.

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Deidre Robb @deidrerobb.bsky.social · 23d

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

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.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 23d

"Blankets for stone and wood" sounds like a book title. And I love it!

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 23d

Thank you! <3

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 23d

I finally finished making this embroidery into a cushion!
#embroidery#textileart #handembroidery #canvaswork #needlepoint

A cushion embroidered in stripes and zigzags in dark browns, golds, muted greens. It's on a pale cream coloured couch with a tapestry cushion in muted greens leaning against it.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 25d

Happy Spring equinox!

A camellia bush bursting with big red flowers.

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 26d

I'm in the high country, and can confirm that they are now back up here :D Great photo!

pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · 26d

This is so accurate :D