pardalote

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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

Ten decorative cross-stitched patches are arranged on a gray background. Each patch has a different shape, beaded edge, and stitched text, including “Wash your hands,” “Wipe your feet,” “Wait your turn,” “Check your messages,” “Do your homework,” “Do your hair,” “State your goals,” “Track your steps,” “Cross your legs,” “Pay your bills,” and “Mind your manners.”
Cross stitch piece reading ‘track your steps’ in block letters, with a beaded border.
A stack of embroidered squares sitting on a grey surface. The top square reads ‘they hide your post’ in a stitched pixel font.
Twelve squares of embroidery on a grey background. Each square is stitched with four four-letter words in a grid, such as 'they know your name', 'they sold your data' and 'they read your file'. Each square is stitched in the same grid font, but the colours vary from square to square, mainly blues, greys beige.
Photograph of clusters of small round acorns on a branch, with brown /green oak leaves and a path heading off in the background.
Eight small stitched objects laying flat on a white background. The objects are all square, but vary in colour. All have a beaded edge. Each square has four words embroidered, eg: safe when held open or fold once when damp
Four embroidered words in a grid: "they know your name". The stitched background is tan. The words are stitched in dark blue. The square is bordered in blue and tan braided stitches.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "tell your wife that" in dark blue stitches, on a pale pink background. The stitches are in smyrna stitch on a grid. The square of embroidery is bordered with white beaded triangles.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "work hard then what". The stitched background is grey. The words are stitched in brown and red. The square is bordered in multiple ochre-toned colours with a beaded edge in bronzes.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "four word grid poem". The words are stitched in blues and yellow on blue backgrounds. The square is bordered in pink and cream zigzag stitches with a scalloped bead edge in shades of dark pink.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "left lane must exit". The stitched background is yellow. The words are stitched in dark blue. The square is bordered in blue and yellow stitches with a simple blue and yellow bead edge.
Five stitched square poems, edged in beadwork. The poems read: void when read once, take when foil torn, onus lies with user, near miss then this, left lane must exit.
Four squares of stitching, each is a stitched four word poem: left lane must exit, near miss then this, void when read once, onus lies with user. The squares are edged in beadwork.
Two squares of stitching, the frontmost one reads 'onus lies with user' in dark purple on a pale green background, the backgrounded one reads 'near miss then this' in tan stitches, with pale grey toned background stitches. The squares is edged in beadwork.
A square of stitching that reads 'near miss then this' in tan stitches, with pale grey toned background stitches. The square is edged in beadwork: a series of triangular spikes tipped with small silver beads.
An embroidery of the words TEL YOUR WIFE THAT in dark blue stitches, on a pale pink background. The stitches are in smyrna stitch on a grid.
An embroidery of the words LAST LIFE GAME OVER in a gradient of yellow to red, on a black background. The stitches are in smyrna stitch on a grid.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "well that went well" The stitched background is dark purple grey. The words are stitched in a pale variegated thread.
Four embroidered words in a grid: "Work hard then what" The stitched background is grey. The words "Work hard" are stitched in brown and "then what" is stitched in red.
An embroidered square that reads 'Good luck wood duck' laid out in a 4x4 grid. The piece is mainly stitched in browns and golds, and is surrounded by stitched stones and unstitched pebbles.
Three folded cloths in faded designs, with two skeins of embroidery thread sitting on top. The cloths are worn and stitched in simple geometric patterns of running stitch.
Mesh canvas with sampled needlepoint stitches in various colours and threads. Mostly letters, but also some grids of crossed stitches.
A photo showing needlepoint samples in the foreground. The stitching is of block letters in different colours. The background shows graph paper with lettering sketched out in coloured pencil. Scissors and threads are stacked up on top of the paper.
A handful of small stitched and paper objects on a white background. The objects are in various shapes and forms, and all in tones of green. They are laid out between two larger stitched objects that we only see the edges of.
A long embroidered shape, rectangular with rounded corners. It’s stitched mainly in greens with a strip in the right in pale grey. Many of the stitches are square.
Embroidery in purples and blues, geometric patterns on gridded fabric.
A detailed and textured embroidered half-moon which has been stitched onto black fabric. The moon's dark side is rendered in black thread, while the craters and rocks are distinguished through circles of white and metallic and French knots.
Two triangles of black felt on a white background. One is covered with blue-painted paper elements, that mimic the surface of butterfly wings. The other is stitched in lines of blue and white beads and thread.
A long piece of canvaswork embroidery in greens and greys.
Four stitched shapes on a white background. Each shape is a soft arched D shape with a geometric pattern in different colours.
A rectangle stitched in geometric pattern in shades of green and grey.
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.
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.
Felt brooches in many colours, stitched with whimsical birdlike features. There is a group of five brooches posed on a white background.
Greenish stitched shapes on a white background. The shapes are stitched in simple short stitches that completely cover the fabric in geometric patterns.
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.
A camellia bush bursting with big red flowers.
A purple and blue dragonfly made in felt and fabric, photographed on a white surface.
Two embroidered beetle-shaped creatures. They are stitched in whites and offwhites and have mismatched embroidered elytra, white legs and antennae.
Various stones and roundish wooden objects, partly covered in beadwork and crochet, posed against a white background.
Zany felt birds embroidered in many colours, standing in a group, on a white background.
Five felt brooches in the shape of bird faces. They are multicoloured a little zany.
Two stitched rocks, two small beaded button shapes, some stitched paper, a very small rectangle of my grandfather's handkerchief, and a stitched sample (also stitching on my grandfather's hanky, with crochet and needlelace edging).
Three crazy felt creatures posed with stones, coloured fabric pebbles and beaded beads.
Two stitched shapes in blues and yellows, on a white background.
An arrangement of objects on a white background, the objects include a small woven tapestry, beaded pebbles, hand stitched buttons, tiny embroidered cushions and painted shapes. The objects are mostly in muted colours of plums, sand and browns.
Off white textile objects arranged in a still life against a white background
Stitched paper and fabric in white and off white against a white background
Some red and golden trxtile objects on a white background. A small woven tapestry and assorted small things in paper, fabric and beads.
Stitched objects on a white background.
A photo of a large square of stitched fabric. The stitches are simple rows of colour in browns, gold and greens with a few rows that are zigzags of colour.
A stitched shape on a white background. The stitching is in blue and yellow and ecru and is mostly rectangles and rows of blue lines.
Stitched shapes in blue-yellow on a white blackground.
Some stitched shapes in browns, crochet edged with ecru.
A top down view of a stack of stitched objects in browns and golds.