@robinilexstudio
Hand embroidery and other stuff made by Robin (he/they) in Glasgow 🧵🏳️⚧️ inspired by nature, football, music and more Trying to create as sustainably as possible using remnants, scraps, second hand and repurposed materials 🪡
An embroidery hoop with two pink and blue embroidered pansies in various states of progress. It is placed on a table with a crumble cake in front and a small iced latte behind that.
Stitching in my favourite cafe is just the best 🌸
DIY > AI
An embroidery hoop on a white background. The design in the hoop says ‘trans rights are human rights’ on a pink and blue swirly background. White embroidered flowers and French knots surround the letters. The letters are half blue and white and half pink and white.
The embroidery kit I collaborated on is available! Design by Handmade Nottingham & instructions by Flowing Fibres. I’m so grateful to be chosen for this project!
£5 of each sale goes to Pastel Project Nottingham 🏳️⚧️💖
www.handmadenottingham.com/products/trans-rights-are-human-rights-embroidery-kit
A pink flower with a white centre, on the end of a long green stem with four long green sepals visible. The top of the plant is hairy and you can make those hairs out in the photo
The same plant from above. A pink flower with a white centre, on the end of a long green stem with four long green sepals visible.
Sat on this bench and there is a gorgeous little common corn-cockle (Agrostemma githago) growing underneath 🌸
📍 Glasgow, Scotland
A background photo of lots of little daisies in grass. On top, in a flower chairs cutout is a mock-up of a badge with embroidery on it: a trans flag with ‘ALLY’ written underneath.
Trans ally badges coming soon! I have ordered some badges with my embroidery on them, and here is the mock-up. They should arrive next week, when I will list them on my shop 🌸🏳️⚧️
A pair of adult mute swans with six cygnets between them, sitting amid the vegetation on the bank of the lake in the park.
Behold! A picture-perfect swan family! Six cygnets. 🥰
An embroidery hoop on dark yellow background. In the hoop is printed fabric which says ‘trans rights are human rights’ in black and white on a pink and blue background. The top of the word ‘trans’ is half filled with pink stitches.
The artwork is designed by Handmade Nottingham, and in this photo you can see I have already started stitching 🧵
An embroidery hoop on dark yellow background. In the hoop is printed fabric which says ‘trans rights are human rights’ in black and white on a pink and blue background
Very excited to have been asked to work on this collaboration with Handmade Nottingham, developing the stitches and stitching a sample of their new kit! The kit will be sold to raise money for a trans charity 🏳️⚧️🪡
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A hand embroidered bumblebee in shades of yellow and black, with white wings. The stitches are short to create texture
For world bee day, here’s an older embroidered patch I made of a garden bumblebee (Bombus hoturum)
🐝 #embroidery #handembroidery
A bowl full of yellow and pink petals
A jar of yellow petals in water, light shining though
Attempting to make dandelion ‘honey’, with some added apple and cherry blossoms 🌸 the blossom tea is now gonna steep overnight before I reduce it with sugar tomorrow.
A four leaved clover in two shades do green on a dark green fabric. Only one of the leaves is filled so far and there is a needle sticking out of the fabric above the design
My current #WIP 🍀
#handembroidery #embroidery
Everyone remember that Tony Blair's son is an AI billionaire. With a B.
Orange corduroy fabric with an orange fruit embroidered on it. There is a stem with two green leaves in two shades of green. The orange has a texture from small stitches in various shades of orange. There are small sparkles in light grey next to it as part of the design
The finished orange patched to mend a rip on my orange cords 🍊
#visiblemending #embroidery #handembroidery
P.s. I would love to ditch meta. But as an artist it’s just not feasible for myself right now
I couldn’t figure out how to download an Instagram reel after posting it, so here’s a screen recording of my most recent mend 😅 orange patch on orange cords. 🍊
#embroidery #visiblemending
*cords!
Arghh
Orange corduroy fabric in a hoop, inside is an embroidered orange, in different hues of orange, with green leaves and stem
My orange patch on my orange chords is nearly finished !! 🍊 just outlining it now, and plan to add some little stars
#visiblemending
Orange cord fabric in an embroidery hoop. Two leaves are stitched in different shades of green, underneath is a white circle of fabric which is slowly becoming an orange with small orange stitches
As I was stitching this on the train someone started eating an orange, so I got a full sensory experience 🍊
Thank you 😊
Forgot to add #visiblemending 🙃
Orange corduroy fabric in an embroidery hoop. Inside is a white circle with stitched green stem and two tone green leaves. The circle will become an orange
Currently patching a hole in my favourite orange cords
Omg 😬🙃
Golden moss sporophytes
Close up on a small curled up moss
Moss of the day, growing on an old stone wall in an incredible golden sunset.
#botany #naturalists
A spray of light pink cherry blossoms against mottled grey concrete
Cherry tree branches reaching towards a soft blue sky. Translucent light pink blossoms and small tender red leaves are lit from behind.
This tree has been bringing me a lot of joy recently
Ahh thank you so much! 😊
Oh man tell me about it, I have so many scraps… 😆
Thank you!
Thank you! The bottom one is actually some scraps from one of my old cardigans 😅
Kyogo embroidery
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