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I Transform Pets Into Hand-Embroidered Portraits

What originally began as a curious part-time hobby has now turned into my absolute favorite thing to do every day.

Two years ago whilst in my second year at university, I did my first ever embroidery hoop. Ever since then I have embroidered an assortment of woodland and wildlife-themed art & custom pet portraits.

I love using this embroidery art as it is timeless, unique, and requires a lot of patience. I embroider with one strand of DMC embroidery thread at a time as this allows me to get capture the finest details of the adorable animals possible. The most challenging part is trying to find the perfect color for a portrait, as you can’t easily mix color in hand embroidery as you would with paint, thus I have to create the illusion of it! Each 5″ hoop can take between 13 – 18 hours, & I like to spread sessions over a couple of days as doing these embroidery patterns is very labor-intensive.

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I Transform Pets Into Hand-Embroidered Portraits

You can buy my works on Etsy.

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FatimaAlkaabi 8 years ago

Do u personalised pet orders ?

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MithunKurian 8 years ago

Perfect!!!! Brilliant!!!

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ChippyGangjee 8 years ago

Utterly Brilliant!

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MonaLiese 8 years ago

Can I order a portrait somewhere?! I would LOVE to have one of one of my cats!

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EmillieFerris (Post author) 8 years ago

Hiya! I have a newsletter you can sign up to, I release pet portrait slots and notify everyone in my newsletter when the date & time of the release will be :) Copy and past this link into your URL to subscribe >> http://eepurl.com/bPeuWv <<

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GogatinePf 8 years ago

very realistic ! bravo ! I'm doing cross-stitch, so I understand how difficult it is to do embroideries. much more harder. once again, bravo !!

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BeverlyHover 8 years ago

Exceptional!

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NaomiPrior 8 years ago

Hi, without Instagram how could I ask about your work? Thank you

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EmillieFerris (Post author) 8 years ago

Hiya! for general enquires you can email me at emilliesferris@gmail.com, but if it was pet portraits you were after, you can sign up to my newsletter >> http://eepurl.com/bPeuWv << copy and paste that URL to subscribe and be notified when upcoming pet portrait slots will be released!

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