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Dawn Rogal insists that she is happily married. I decline to dispute it.
She kept this piece of embroidery on display at her shop, but, strangely, it seems to have offended people there.
Don’t worry, it’s not actually embroidered -that wouldn’t be very delicious after all. Instead, it just looks embroidered thanks to a careful use of sprinkles. The creator even used a real embroidery design as her guide.
In the comment of our last human hair embroidery post, Neatoramanaut Louisa alerted us to the fantastic series of "fiber-based" artwork by Kate Kretz.
Ebb, the hair embroidery of the sleeping eyes above, is deliciously done on a pillowcase.
The gorgeous Heart Center is a human heart with embroidered veins and arteries ...
And my favorite, Kate's Fertilization Purse, cleverly uses fake pearls fashioned as sperms!
Check out more of Kate Kretz' art at her Flickr photoset All Fiber-Based Work, website, and blog - Thanks Louisa!
Well, why let cats have all the fun? Colombian artist Zaira Pulido creates her embroidery art using long strands of human hair:
Bogota-based Zaira Pulido has been asking every one of her friends and people she’s into for strands of their hair to use in a series of embroidered artworks. She uses the human hair instead of the usual thread and creates various works, like embroidered portraits of her friends (each made with their own hair), an embroidered comb or a replica of her bra.
See more at Oddity Central: Link | Zaira's Flickr Photoset
Philadelphia-based artist Matthew Cox combines x-ray images and embroidery to show a clinical, scientific world below a colorful, artistic surface. Many of his works are portraits of pop culture figures including Snow White, Miss Piggy, and David Bowie.
Link -via Flavorwire
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This ain't your mother's cross stitch! Cayce Zavaglia took hand embroidery to the next level with her thread paintings:
I still consider myself a painter and find it difficult not to refer to these embroidered portraits as “paintings”. Although the medium employed is crewel embroidery wool, the technique borrows more from the worlds of drawing and painting.
Initially, working with an established range of wool colors proved frustrating. Unlike painting, I was unable to mix the colors by hand. Progressively, I created a system of sewing the threads in a sequence that would ultimately give the allusion of a certain color or tone. The direction in which the threads were sewn had to mimic the way lines are layered in a drawing to give the allusion of depth, volume, and form. Over time the stitches have become tighter and more complex but ultimately more evocative of flesh, hair, and cloth.
I mean, look - just look - at the details:
View more of Cayce's artwork on her website: Link - via Colossal
Amelia Harnas carefully and repeatedly stained fabric with wine using a wax resist dyeing technique. Then she embroidered highlights onto the fabric, creating lovely and unique portraits.
Link -via Nag on the Lake
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These Sharpies aren’t functional, but you won’t stain your clothes with them, either. Megan Whitmarsh made convincing plush replicas of office supplies, including a composition book, erasers, and notebook paper.
Link -via Flavorwire | Artist’s Website
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Craftster member erica_tattoos made a pair of embroidery hoops depicting Princess Leia and Jabba the Hutt. My brilliant idea: the original trilogy should be re-shot with manatees.
Link -via Geek Crafts
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Etsy seller Love & A Sandwich is currently sold out of these cute works of embroidery and appliqué, but she still has available a hoop featuring Beast from the X-Men. Still, I have my heart set on the Fuzzball hoop. Link -via The Mary Sue
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Love your iPhone, but wish it had a homier feel? Never fear – now you can use your best needlework skills to cozy up your case. For just $18, you get an embroidery-friendly case, plus embroidery thread in the appropriate colors to make whichever design you choose. You can also just use their grid paper to make your own design, if you want to take your DIY-ness to the next level. I think the kitties are hilarious, but you could also go more geek-like with Mario or the Apple or Superman logos.
Link via Design.org
Craftster member megstar made an embroidery hoop that flips to reveal a second page. The pages can be held in place with snaps.
Her work is a reference to the Doctor Who episode “Blink“. Whovians have told me to watch that one episode if I want to get a sense of the value of the series. Link -via Craft
Check out these textural delights by artist Daniel Kornrumpf, who has resurrected the antiquated art of embroidery and brought it into a spectacular new light. His painterly approach to embroidery adds a fresh, modern style and energy to the medium, and the fact that so much detail is worked into these relatively small pieces makes them even more remarkable.
Craftster user TroubleT made this wonderful Father’s Day gift for her husband, a Portal fan. They’re a rather clever and appropriate use for embroidery hoops, don’t you think? Link -via Geek Crafts
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Daniel Kornrumpf embroiders portraits in amazingly lifelike detail. He stitches in a way that imitates brushstrokes. Above is “diamonds on my neck. diamonds on my grill” on linen. Link -via Swiss Miss | Artist’s Website | Photo: Libby Rosof
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Penguin, the publishing house, asked crafter Jillian Tamaki to reproduce three covers from their classic novels in embroidery. After two months of work, she completed wrap-around covers for Emma, Black Beauty, and The Secret Garden.
Link via Dude Craft
Mos Eisley on Tatooine seems like a more pleasant, cheerful place in this description. The bee is smiling, see? Craftster user GeekySweetheart made this piece of embroidery for her husband.
Link via Geek Crafts | Pattern
Sure, you could have an ordinary wall tentacle, but what fun is that? If you’re going to really shock your mother-in-law, it needs to be in a traditional craft, such as embroidery. Craftster user jemimah made this solid work of embroidery using a technique called stumpwork. That involves working the fabric over a wire base to form a solid object.
Link via Geek Crafts
NASA and Etsy recently held a contest to send selected items of artwork into space. Although voting was supposed to close on Nov. 19, the polls appear to remain open. The grand prize winner gets $500 to spend in Etsy shops and a trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to witness a space shuttle launch.
Pictured above is an embroidered image of the moon by contestant Rachel Hobson.
Link via Dude Craft
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Etsy seller It’s a Stitch makes all sorts of crafts, but her embroidered items are special treats, such as the above Futurama-inspired piece. She’s also embroidered diagrams for popular chemical compounds, like caffeine.
As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostalgic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin.
Lauren DiCioccio’s New York Times needlework project gives new meaning to the term “embroidering the truth”.
Link - Via Dudecraft
Aubrey Longley-Cook made an animated video of a running dog by embroidering fifteen individual frames. Pictured above is one of them. At the link, you can view the animated .gif file that is the final product. You can also view the category of posts which show each frame of the .gif.
Link via DudeCraft | Individual Frames
Catherine McEver has lately been embroidering slices of bread.
How do you embroider Wonder Bread? Very, very carefully. How long do they last? I have a couple of slices that are over four years old that look just like new.
More examples at the link.
Olympia Le-Tan makes handbags that look like books, with covers embroidered to resemble classics. What a neat way to show off your literary taste! Link to pictures. Link to artist’s site. -via Boing Boing
Flickr user Glitch Vixen got a tattoo of an embroidery her grandmother had made in high school. The result is undeniably beautiful and well-executed.
Link Via Trend Hunter
How cool is it to have a light up needlework project sold complete with the lights, wiring and battery to make it work? Way too cool, that’s how cool.
Photo: lilyvanilli72 [Flickr]
Lily of Lily Blogs embroidered this awesome embroidery for Craftster’s Flight of the Conchord swap. She’s got some excellent embroidery projects going on (love the Milhouse one!) – check it out: Link – via i met a possum
This is one of the strangest craft projects I’ve ever seen. Becky Stern says she plans to continue working on different segments of the MRI to see how her project will turn out.
If you want something original and a little ironic on your shirt or baseball cap, perhaps a unicorn spearing a fairy, or a bald eagle making off with a baby, check out the website of digital embroiderer Jimmy Bradshaw, who makes ordinary embroidery look boring.
Link – via dinosaursandrobots
