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]]>McGarrity is the mastermind behind the Instagram page @a_warm_garlic_yurt, and she’s using the power of social media to share her stitching talent with the world. She’s an associate teaching professor from the Pacific Northwest who dabbled with many forms of fiber art before discovering embroidery.
McGarrity sees nature as her main source of inspiration, and it’s not a coincidence that her embroidery hoops represent animals in the most vibrant light.
“Animals are a very traditional subject, so I like adding my own ‘flavor’ to a piece by reinterpreting them with different palettes. I still feel like I’m learning the craft, so I like creating things using a variety of stitches and techniques,” she told My Modern Met.
McGarrity wants her embroidery art to resemble paintings because she believes there’s a natural connection between these two art forms. That’s the main reason why she adopted an elaborate layering technique, building an image stitch by stitch with one color of thread at a time.
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]]>Rios specializes in creating impressively deceiving embroidery cakes. Despite being “baked” with threads, her desserts have a mouthwatering effect with their colorful frosting, rich-looking whipped cream, and perfectly baked sponge.
Rios creates both classic embroidery art and 3D embroidery pieces while constantly expanding the “menu” of her pastry shop. You’ll find decadent cake slices, doughnuts, cupcakes, fairy bread, and much more.
In order to achieve the realistic look of her cakes, Rios uses various embroidery techniques, including punch needles, as well as polymer clay. For finishing touches, this talented artist turns to acrylic paint, foam, and paper.
“I love that a lot of my process is actually similar to making real cakes. When I make polymer clay sprinkles, I bake them in my oven. I use real pastry bags to pipe frosting onto them,” Rios explained her creative process in one of her Instagram videos.
Rios enjoys sharing her newest embroidery cakes on social media while also providing a behind-the-scenes look into the process of making them. She also sells her creations through her Etsy shop. Continue scrolling to check out more of them.
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]]>The post Millie Amber’s Beaded Embroidery is Bringing Fairy Tales to Life appeared first on Wallpaper Data.
]]>A talented illustrator and textile artist from London, Amber got her degree in illustration from Arts University Bournemouth. She decided to utilize the power of social media to her advantage, building an impressive Instagram following, with a community of over 80,000 people around the world who admire her unique approach to embroidery.
Amber’s body of work explores romantic symbolism, folkloric motifs, and poetic narratives using a combination of contemporary and traditional techniques. She has a special interest in nature, folk art, and mythology, and her love for all things ethereal shines through every piece of embroidery she shares with the world.
Most embroidery artists stick to working with needle and thread, but this is not what Amber is best known for. Beads are her go-to material, and she enjoys using them to add a touch of dazzle and whimsy to her magical hoops, weaving them together into shapes and patterns that look straight out of this world.
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]]>The post Youmeng Liu’s Food Embroidery Looks So Real You’ll Want to Take a Bite appeared first on Wallpaper Data.
]]>It’s been over a decade since Liu kicked off her embroidery journey, and a visit to Dali, China was a turning point for this aspiring artist. This was where she was first introduced to punch needle embroidery and learned the technique from local artisans before deciding to put her own twist on it.
“After some years, she redeveloped the traditional punch needle techniques to her own unique style and complexity. The Bai minority punch needle embroidery was done in a single layer like carpet. Youmeng reinvented the technique and added multiple layers and sculpting to create a more realistic and complex look.,” she writes on her official website.
Liu found inspiration in many different places over the years, but her outlook changed when she started using her skills to work on food embroidery. She made a pledge to herself to stitch together 301 embroidered artworks of common edible food items, as a way of exploring people’s relationship with food and the role it plays in their lives.
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]]>Balca is an embroidery artist from Istanbul, Turkey, with a background in fashion design. She graduated from the Department of Fashion and Textile Design at Yeditepe University in 2016 and decided to turn her attention to a craft that’s often been dismissed as old-fashioned by many of her peers – the magical world of embroidery.
Like most embroidery artists, Balca kicked things off by stitching together pretty flowers, but a different subject eventually caught her eye. She kicked off a new era of her journey as an embroidery artist when she decided to focus on stitching together human eyes, using her skills with needle and thread to capture the magnetic power of our gaze.
They say that “eyes are windows to the soul,” and Balca’s body of work proves there’s truth to these words. She mastered the art of capturing the diverse beauty of the human gaze, and her embroidery hoops are truly a sight for sore eyes.
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]]>Alyssa is a talented embroidery artist based in Van Island, Canada. She’s been sharing her creations with the world since 2020, and her Instagram account really started growing after she developed her signature whimsical style, attracting over 160,000 followers.
Alyssa’s hoops are instantly recognizable, but developing her embroidery style has been quite a journey. She finally found her footing when she started working on her “Retro Girl” series, and things fell into place from that point on.
“I’ve always loved the styles, colors, and music of the 70s & 80s. Leaning into this, I started designing more patterns based on my love of retro! Not only did I love it, but I found that so many others connected with the nostalgia that my designs bring!” she wrote on Instagram.
Alyssa’s embroidery experienced a true boom when she started working on her starry night designs. They bring the magic of the night sky to her embroidery hoops, and she’s using everything from golden threads to beads to make them even more enchanting.
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]]>“I love to draw, I love food, so I thought why not try using thread as a medium and combine the things I love and am interested in?” she explained in an interview with Dark Yellow Dot.
When it comes to the creative process itself, Avery has it down to a science: “I have developed a process that I know works for me in my creative process,” she says. Depending on the piece she’s working on, so will the process vary.
“For my bigger plates of food I cook the dish, compose the food for the correct photo, and then take many photos to capture the food in its best light and composition,” she says. “The other approach I take is to make a colored sketch for a photo I have taken or a combination of photos to create the best image ready to stitch.” She then draws a very basic sketch on fabric and changes it as she goes along.
Aside from food, she also embroiders portraits. Those often feature icons like Iris Apfel and Malala Yousafzai. “I’m always thinking of new ideas and yet there is not enough time to do them all,” she says. “I’m always excited to start new projects.” We’re just as excited!
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]]>Prinku’s embroidery art focuses on showcasing flowers in all of their beauty. It features a variety of flowers depicted in various stages, from flower buds to full blossoms. But besides being expertly executed, these pieces also have something that differentiates them from similar flower-inspired embroidery: they contain real flowers.
To make her pieces, Prinku uses a combination of threads and dried flowers. Despite working with such a delicate and unforgiving material, this talented artist is able to create all sorts of unique embroidery artworks in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from wall pieces to lampshades, further adding to their appeal.
“My favorite part of it is the scope to be inventive. Drawing inspiration from traditional embroidery, I love coming up with new ideas and experimenting with the technique further,” Prinku explains on her website.
Continue scrolling to check out more of Prinku’s embroidery pieces below.
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]]>But surprisingly, as a fashion designer, Gilbertson rarely worked with embroidery or hand stitching. “The act of hand stitching is still very traditional and loaded with meaning,” she shared with Venison Magazine. “Visually I want to create something modern and relevant to contemporary art today and the digital references are formed through the design of the artwork,” she adds.
As she explores the relationship between the handmade and the digital, Gilbertson hopes to push the boundaries of contemporary embroidery and elevate stitched work to a higher level, ideally putting it on a par with other art forms. Her work includes color studies of gradients moving through shades and single colour studies and exploration of fades, gradients and geometry, as she explores the ways in which our eyes and mind react when confronted with an unusual presentation of color. “I like the visual and conceptual link between a pixel and a stitch, the digital and traditional,” notes Gilbertson.
“Sometimes I plan out a work in advance digitally and intricately,” she says of her artistic process, “sometimes I just stitch straight onto the canvas with only a vague plan in mind. Both methods work.” Check out some of her mesmerizing work in the gallery below:
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How do you like the final result? ?#barredowl #owls #owlsofinstagram #owlbrooch #embroiderydesign #contemporaryembroidery #handmadeembroidery #needlepainting #needleandthread #owllover #natureinspired #stitching #textileart #modernembroidery #handstitched #fiberartNow with over 50k followers on Instagram, Bartnik has come to be recognized for her bird embroideries – what she calls “embirdiries.” Her work is mostly based on images of birds and includes no prior sketching. “Firstly, I make a shape from a piece of wool with a technique called dry felting,” she explains the creative process. “Dry felting is completed by using a special felting needle to prod wool until it becomes the thickness/texture needed. I then paint with a needle on the felt, apply colors and in the end embroider finer details.”
With some of her biggest passions including nature, traveling, and art, inspiration comes easy. “Nature itself is my greatest inspiration,” says Bartnik. “It contains all sorts of colors, shapes, and textures.” You can purchase her work online or simply follow her Instagram page.
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