Three Dimensional Embroidered Bugs Are Less Icky Than Real Insects

I'll Allow It

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Jun 10, 2013 10:16 am

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It’s a miracle. Textile artist Claire Moynihan has created insects I would touch willingly. She calls her technique “a ‘freestyle’ form of 3D embroidery which can loosely be described as stumpwork.” I call it, really cute bugs on balls.

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."