#stitches!inspo

[djarinsbeskar]

If this isn't stitches din 😅😅

This post and this post alone is Din 'Medic Fucking' Djarin.

#stitches!inspo

[nasa]

NASA Inspires Your Crafty Creations for World Embroidery Day

It’s amazing what you can do with a little needle and thread! For #WorldEmbroideryDay, we asked what NASA imagery inspired you. You responded with a variety of embroidered creations, highlighting our different areas of study.

Here’s what we found:

Webb’s Carina Nebula

Wendy Edwards, a project coordinator with Earth Science Data Systems at NASA, created this embroidered piece inspired by Webb’s Carina Nebula image. Captured in infrared light, this image revealed for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credit: Wendy Edwards, NASA. Pattern credit: Clare Bray, Climbing Goat Designs

Wendy Edwards, a project coordinator with Earth Science Data Systems at NASA, first learned cross stitch in middle school where she had to pick rotating electives and cross stitch/embroidery was one of the options.  “When I look up to the stars and think about how incredibly, incomprehensibly big it is out there in the universe, I’m reminded that the universe isn’t ‘out there’ at all. We’re in it,” she said. Her latest piece focused on Webb’s image release of the Carina Nebula. The image showcased the telescope’s ability to peer through cosmic dust, shedding new light on how stars form.

Ocean Color Imagery: Exploring the North Caspian Sea

Danielle Currie of Satellite Stitches created a piece inspired by the Caspian Sea, taken by NASA’s ocean color satellites. Credit: Danielle Currie/Satellite Stitches

Danielle Currie is an environmental professional who resides in New Brunswick, Canada. She began embroidering at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a hobby to take her mind off the stress of the unknown. Danielle’s piece is titled “46.69, 50.43,” named after the coordinates of the area of the northern Caspian Sea captured by LandSat8 in 2019.

An image of the Caspian Sea captured by Landsat 8 in 2019. Credit: NASA

Two Hubble Images of the Pillars of Creation, 1995 and 2015

Melissa Cole of Star Stuff Stitching created an embroidery piece based on the Hubble image Pillars of Creation released in 1995. Credit: Melissa Cole, Star Stuff Stitching

Melissa Cole is an award-winning fiber artist from Philadelphia, PA, USA, inspired by the beauty and vastness of the universe. They began creating their own cross stitch patterns at 14, while living with their grandparents in rural Michigan, using colored pencils and graph paper.  The Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula, M16), released by the Hubble Telescope in 1995 when Melissa was just 11 years old, captured the imagination of a young person in a rural, religious setting, with limited access to science education.

Lauren Wright Vartanian of the shop Neurons and Nebulas created this piece inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope’s 2015 25th anniversary re-capture of the Pillars of Creation. Credit:  Lauren Wright Vartanian, Neurons and Nebulas

Lauren Wright Vartanian of Guelph, Ontario Canada considers herself a huge space nerd. She’s a multidisciplinary artist who took up hand sewing after the birth of her daughter. She’s currently working on the illustrations for a science themed alphabet book, made entirely out of textile art. It is being published by Firefly Books and comes out in the fall of 2024. Lauren said she was enamored by the original Pillars image released by Hubble in 1995. When Hubble released a higher resolution capture in 2015, she fell in love even further! This is her tribute to those well-known images.

James Webb Telescope Captures Pillars of Creation

Darci Lenker of Darci Lenker Art, created a rectangular version of Webb’s Pillars of Creation. Credit:  Darci Lenker of Darci Lenker Art

Darci Lenker of Norman, Oklahoma started embroidery in college more than 20 years ago, but mainly only used it as an embellishment for her other fiber works. In 2015, she started a daily embroidery project where she planned to do one one-inch circle of embroidery every day for a year.  She did a collection of miniature thread painted galaxies and nebulas for Science Museum Oklahoma in 2019. Lenker said she had previously embroidered the Hubble Telescope’s image of Pillars of Creation and was excited to see the new Webb Telescope image of the same thing. Lenker could not wait to stitch the same piece with bolder, more vivid colors.

Milky Way

Darci Lenker of Darci Lenker Art was inspired by NASA’s imaging of the Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: Darci Lenker

In this piece, Lenker became inspired by the Milky Way Galaxy, which is organized into spiral arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust. The Sun is in a finger called the Orion Spur.

The Cosmic Microwave Background

This image shows an embroidery design based on the cosmic microwave background, created by Jessica Campbell, who runs Astrostitches. Inside a tan wooden frame, a colorful oval is stitched onto a black background in shades of blue, green, yellow, and a little bit of red. Credit: Jessica Campbell/ Astrostitches

Jessica Campbell obtained her PhD in astrophysics from the University of Toronto studying interstellar dust and magnetic fields in the Milky Way Galaxy. Jessica promptly taught herself how to cross-stitch in March 2020 and has since enjoyed turning astronomical observations into realistic cross-stitches. Her piece was inspired by the cosmic microwave background, which displays the oldest light in the universe.

The full-sky image of the temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) in the cosmic microwave background, made from nine years of WMAP observations. These are the seeds of galaxies, from a time when the universe was under 400,000 years old. Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team

GISSTEMP: NASA’s Yearly Temperature Release

Katy Mersmann, a NASA social media specialist, created this embroidered piece based on NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) global annual temperature record. Earth’s average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record. Credit: Katy Mersmann, NASA

Katy Mersmann is a social media specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. She started embroidering when she was in graduate school. Many of her pieces are inspired by her work as a communicator. With climate data in particular, she was inspired by the researchers who are doing the work to understand how the planet is changing. The GISTEMP piece above is based on a data visualization of 2020 global temperature anomalies, still currently tied for the warmest year on record.

In addition to embroidery, NASA continues to inspire art in all forms. Check out other creative takes with Landsat Crafts and the James Webb Space telescope public art gallery.

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#NASA #creativity #fiber art #embroidery #art #art challenge #needlework #crafts #handmade #textile art #cross stitch #stitching #inspiration #inspo #Earth #Earth science #Hubble #James Webb Space Telescope #climate change #water #nebula #stars

[somediyprojects]

Microsoft Office Suite stitched and designed by CachalotTheUnlikely.

I had an idea for the office White Elephant—and thanks to fednews—I turned it into a office suite of art. I hope y'all enjoy it as well! The patterns were self-drafted using flosscross.com and crosstitch.com caption maker. The aida and floss were from my stash. I used DMC 906, 702, 699, and 890 for the Excel icon. I've hung them up behind me for all to see when my camera is on.

#cross stitch #inspo #x #self drafted #pop culture

[whatahoop]

Lysistrata 💙

#embroidery #needle painting #handicrafts #handembroidery #my hoops #crafts #needlework #hand stitching #handmade #pretty colors #hand embroidery #needlecraft #lysistrata #shades of blue #norman lindsay #embroidery inspo #embroidered art

[quenepacrossing]

inspired by @charcoalwings

#literally never used this tile before i had to amiibo stitches into hhp to get it #acnh #acnh inspo #animal crossing new horizons #acnh design #hhp #acnh interior #happy home paradise

[mewcrossing]

🧃🌸

#animal crossing #acnh #acnh inspo #acnh exterior #acnh cherry blossoms #acnh spring #acnh static #acnh lily #acnh stitches #meworangeade #i've officially finished my whole island o_o

[helloleifybee]

Baby Stitches has been playing all morning 🩵 oh to be a bear cub with no responsibilities.

#animal crossing #acnh #acnh ideas #acnhcoastal #acnh inspo #acnh inspiration #acnh stitches #acnh coastal core #animal crossing new horizons

[butterflytrampstamp]

embroidered cyborg

ink by @ cyborg.nn

#tattoos #inked #fine art #inked beauty #tattoo #tattoo design #inked up #tattoo inspo #tattoo inspiration #black tattoo #black ink #cyborg #cross stitch #butterflytrampstamp

[flygonydoo]

Finally settled on how I wanted to design the eggs and got around to finishing these Pommes.

#radsart #qsmp #qsmp fanart #qsmp pomme #pomme the egg #if you couldn't tell my main inspo for their designs is gonna be Stitch #mostly bc he walks both on two legs and all fours. also i thought his eyes and ears would look real cute on the eggs

[crisscrossserenity]

I hate capitalism!!! Buy my cross stitches so I can pay rent until I can realize my dream of being the crazy lady that lives at the edge of the village and brews potions (that is actually just really good soup) ((or is it....))

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1597061094/village-witch-cross-stitch-instant

#cross stitch #cs inspo #thread art #etsy #patterns #needlework #witch #witchcore #witchblr #cottagecore #cottage witch

[djarinsbeskar]

Me thinking about medic and Din and grogu just having a cuddle. 🥰🥰🥰

Also thinking about grogu’s reaction when she had a new baby Din. And him needing all the attention so he doesn’t get jealous.

BIG BROTHER GROGU BIG BROTHER GROGU--

That's the cutest freaking image oh my god stop. Even if human kids eventually age past him, they'd still say he was their big brother 😭

#stitches!inspo #this ended me

[sweetpotato-xing]

what's a toybox without any toys

#acnh #animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh inspo #acnh the toybox #acnh stitches #acnh interior

[somediyprojects]

Book of Warrior Queens stitched and designed by HauntedFrames. Pattern, $6.77.

Book of Warrior Queens was stitched on 18 ct aida, using 4 colours of DMC floss. Contains cross stitches and a decent amount of back stitching! Framed in a 5x7 gold frame. The backstitch makes such a difference, especially around the border. It was tough to get through but worth it!

#cross stitch #inspo #x #self drafted #etsy

[anxiousworm]

What if villagers but they’re little guys

#thinking of new ocs and the thought came to me that what if villagers were more like minions #like being intelligent but not understandable #having their own little society #not even sure if this is the final design bc I’ve had everything from tapirs to stitch as inspo #minecraft #myart #mineblr #minecraft villager

[jitterbugbear]

a cheeky little before and after 💐

finally got around to crocheting a nice cover for my water bottle 💖

#no pattern for this just inspo pics #its very easy to make #i did learn thermal stitch for the handle though #chat tag #crochet

[mewcrossing]

(＿ ＿*) Z z z

#acnh #animal crossing #ac joey #acnh joey #acnh exterior #acnh inspo #acnh lopez #ac lopez #ac stitches #acnh stitches #meworangeade