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Judy Merrill-Smith
@judymerrillsmith.bsky.social
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I love color and texture, working primarily as a textile artist with embroidery and quilting.
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By contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt
Photo of the painted page of a sjetch book with colourful shapes and hand created text 'there is enough for everyone'
August 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Gus is enjoying the soothing sounds of dripping water on this #caturday ❤️🐱
Black and white, long-haired cat lounging on a bathroom counter next to the sink
August 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt
Painting featuring a standing white woman in a long blue dress, facing left, at work in a factory holding bobbins of cotton
July 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social took this pdf down from their website. I don’t know why exactly, but here it is since you can’t get it there any longer:

#1millionrising #RESIST
Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
July 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
June 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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BONUS SCENE - In this clip that we were not able to use in the finished film, Jimmy shows us a Quillow he made for a 16 year old. Check out the full film on @Netflix.
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#DocumentaryShort #BonusScene #Quillow #TheQuilters #RestorativeJustice
June 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Should the quilted flag be upside down? I haven’t adhered the letters yet, I could turn it around to indicate that my country is in distress but the letters do fit nicely this way

#quilting
Quilted panel of a colorful, graffitied US flag with appliqué letters in navy that read No Kings Only Quilt Rulers
June 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Looking at men's shirts in the thrift store yesterday. A nearby teen boy (13?) was loudly begging his mom to buy him dress shoes. He asks my opinion, saying "my mom says they'll make me look gay." I look him in the eye and say, "What's wrong with looking gay?" Mom quickly says "nothing."
June 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Adding some positive thoughts here. #embroidery #patch
Yellow patch on a denim shirt sleeve. The embroidery, stitched in navy blue, says "Today is a gift." The word "today" has green seed stitches filling three of the letters, and a needle and thread are poked into the patch in the letter A.
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Metta meditation quote from Spirit Rock Meditation Center: May you be seen and loved. (I'm stitching a small series.)
#embroidery #metta
Embroidered blue circle on a multicolored painted fabruc background. Inside the circle, embroidered in red letters, is a quote from Spirit Rock Meditation Center: May you be seen and loved.
May 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Another embroidered mini-meditation.
A piece of brightly painted fabric embroidered with the words "May your spirit be strong".
May 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I'm looking at protest quilts and am so impressed with this one ♥️
lindadiakquilts.bsky.social Linda Diak @lindadiakquilts.bsky.social · Apr 23
The penguin is quilted and ready to protest! It’s a bit crooked, but I have had vertigo off and on all week, so I’m okay with crooked.
Art quilt of an angry penguin with Hands Odd in orange above him. The dark blue background says “protect women’s rights, the arts, due process, free speech, lgbtqia+ rights, museums, libraries, research, science, national parks, our vote” and in the bottom of the penguin, “the penguins.”
May 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Peaceful vibes on May Day. (I'm thinking about embroidering a series of these.)
A piece of fabric painted with bright colors and embroidered with dark blue thread. Inside of a circle are the words of a Buddhist meditation: "may you be safe, may you be healthy, may you be happy, may you live at ease".
May 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Feet up, doing my duty for my cat's comfort.
A person's legs with socked feet, extended on a brown recliner, with a black and white cat's head resting on one of the legs.
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I spent the last few days hustling to get "enough" done on a project to take credible photos & enter it in a big art show. I hit the submit button just now. And then I read the juror's bio and thought "I ain't got a prayer of getting in." Maybe I'll stop doing this to myself eventually. 🫤 #quiltsky
April 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I don’t think I’m going to fit 100 of them in the quilt after all. I’ll be lucky to get 50 in there. #ragequilting #improvquilting
A grumpy tabby cat sits on a chair back in front of a quilt design wall. The quilt is a bunch of very colorful four-letter words. Yes, those words. A picture of the entire quilt wall, almost full of 4 letter words. A closeup of the words. The cat has made the pile of fabric on the worktop into her fluffy colorful bed. She’s not sharing, the fabric is now hers.
March 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Today's #WorkInProgress - I finished this little butterfly.
#embroidery #applique
An appliqued and embroidered green and black butterfly on a navy blue background. There's more stitching below the butterfly; a hand holds the fabric at the bottom of the photo.
March 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Happy vernal equinox from Michigan's Upper Peninsula! 😆 Hoping that this is the last big snowstorm of the season.
A wintery scene of trees heavily covered in fresh snow, with the side of a house in view on the right.
March 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene, known for her cross stitch embroidery on various metal objects #WomensArt
Photo of a metal frying pan with cross stitch pictorial embroidery inside of three fried eggs
March 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Gus is here to brighten up your feed. Wishing you a wonderful Thursday.
A fluffy black and white cat, sleeping on jean-clothed legs, one paw tucked under his chin.
March 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I'm realizing that I probably need to rip out 2 days of embroidery on my current piece. Ugh. But I'm proud of myself for considering what's best for the piece instead of ignoring the problem.
March 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Work in progress continues to evolve. Memento mori.
#quiltsky #appliqué #embroidery
A cut-up pink sock is sewn down with blue thread on a spring green and navy background. The shape of the sock and embroidery suggests a human skull facing to the right, with the jaw open and a few teeth in the mouth.
March 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I feel this
badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · Mar 4
New favorite word for my general feelings.
Embroidery of a little girl holding a drooping American flag and looking sad. Text reads: I’m just so pissappointed.
March 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I’m very pleased to announce a new 3hour zoom class with @Craftymonkies happening Saturday 21 June, mark your diaries now!

I’ll be showing you a creative approach to the usual technique of appliqué, using fabric scraps to construct bold shapes and motifs.
Announcing the new zoom class on Craftymonkies.com with Russell Barratt teaching Playful Scrap Appliqué
March 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Joni Mitchell, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, painter, genius #WomensArt
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM