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Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️
@knittedpixel.bsky.social
Designer, creator & dreamer. Insatiably curious human being. Typography obsessed. Things I 💜: music, exploring creativity, photography, books, culture & art.

From/living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but love to travel.

I sometimes write stuff here: https://catmcl.substack.com/
Happy Winter Solstice, Bluesky friends! ❄️ Always glad to reach this day in the calendar, and welcome the return of the light.

This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow.

#WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It’s #OpenHouse for #BlueskyArtShow, so here are an assortment of rather charming wee birdhouses I spotted in Amsterdam this week while visiting my sister! 🪶
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s #OpenHouse on #BlueskyArtShow this week! I usually share my photography here, but today I wanted to share my mixed media artwork. It’s a piece that’s a hybrid of analogue & digital art: my hand-drawn illustrations, hand-lettering and digital collage elements.

#GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What’s life without colour? DULL! Please enjoy these fabulous tulips at Keukenhof in the Netherlands for #TulipTuesday. 🌷

Photo taken during a visit to the floral haven with my mum in spring 2015 - the displays are just glorious.

#BloomScrolling
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Another pretty #sky for this week’s #BlueskyArtShow - throwback to Paris, August 2013. 🇫🇷

The huge Tyrannosaurus Rex was perched at one of the Bateaux Mouches stations on the River Seine. I always love the beautiful quality of the light in Paris whenever I visit the city. (Je reviendrai encore!)
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This week’s #BlueskyArtShow theme is #sky so here’s the sky above Loch Morlich & the Cairngorm Mountains, in the Scottish Highlands. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’ve spent a lot of time in that part of Scotland and love it dearly - it’s so beautiful.

📷 Photo taken by me in April 2022.

#Scotland #Ecosse #Alba #Cairngorms
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy St. Andrew’s Day, folks! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A little late-night #BloomScrolling for you, my Bluesky friends. These fuchsias always remind me of tiny dancing ballerinas. 🩰
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a beautiful city, I definitely miss living there! 🏰 I did a little day trip by train today though which was nice 😊
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Time spent with trees is never time wasted. Today I felt the magnetic pull of some lovely twisty-trunked horse chestnut trees. 🌰

#LoveNature #Trees #Edinburgh
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wrote this as a form of letter to myself, but it came out more like poetry (no bad thing!). As it’s World Kindness Day today, I thought I’d share it, in case someone else finds it useful/helpful too. 🧡

#ViralKindness #BeKind #Writing
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A rare self-portrait for #MonochromeMonday. Wishing you all a good week, folks.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another #evening photo for this week’s #BlueskyArtShow! 🌷
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow theme today is #Evening - here’s a photo from a lovely evening, taken in Cherokee on my family trip to North Carolina, USA, in June this year. A special place for sure. 🧡
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Somehow… it’s November, apparently?! Joining in the #DavidsMonthOfMusic malarkey once again.

Day 1: Eels - “Fresh Blood” 🩸

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November 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Found my spooky Lego! 🦇
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It’s Bat Appreciation Week, apparently! 🦇 I’m still working on a Halloween sewing project, which just so happens to feature the little critters. I love seeing the tiny Pipistrelle bats flitting about here in the south of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at dusk, it always brings me so much joy.

#LoveBats #Halloween #Stitchy
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Quiet Sunday means spooky sewing time. 🧵🪡🦇

#Halloween #ShesCrafty #SpookySeason
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The view from #inside the Leith tenement building I used to reside in.

#BlueskyArtShow #Spiral #Architecture #Tenement #Edinburgh
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A view #inside the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The Victorian-era building’s design was inspired by the Crystal Palace in London.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edinburgh #Architecture #Scotland #Museum
October 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Took my camera for a walk to see the pretty autumn colours around Galashiels yesterday. 🍁
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The #BlueSkyArtShow theme this week is #Vertical so please enjoy these roses reaching up into a beautiful blue sky. 🌹
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The #BlueskyArtShow theme this week is #Glow 🍁 so here’s a lovely autumnal oak tree.
October 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The #BlueskyArtShow theme this week is #Glow 🔥

Haven’t dyed my hair this colour for quite a while but love how it caught the golden hour light in this photo.
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The theme is #Relax for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

I often find spending time in the garden helps me relax. The scent of lavender is very soothing too, and I enjoy watching the bees buzzing around their purple flowers.

#BloomScrolling #Lavender #SimplePleasures
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM