Finished banner, all raw edged appliqué with thrifted fabric. I only kind of regret the red, because I love it. All flourishing is mutual. - Robin Wall Kimmerer #craftivism #banner #embroidery #slowstitching #quiltynook #bannermaking #textileart

All flourishing is mutual. -Robin Wall Kimmerer #quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer

Danielle Clough, contemporary fibre artist and designer from Cape Town, South Africa #womensart

Quilt race 2025! The assignment was to take an object in your room you like the silhouette of and make it in as many different ways as possible. And make a quilt top in an hour while listening to a curated play list. I didn’t sew at all, just pinned.

Dill and oregano from the garden #preserving #dehydrating #gardening

All the deets are on my Substack.#textileart #embroidery #slowstitching https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios

Started banner while in the #quiltynook skill share this afternoon. It will read: All Flourishing is Mutual, which is a quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer #protestbanner #craftivism #applique

Hot dog

Finished my travel project. Day 13: fire tower 14: rose petals my entire family keep tracking inside from the big wild bushes outside 15: my mom gave me a linen pillowcase her mom embroidered for her and it’s the one piece of ancestral embroidery I have. These lazy daisies are a tribute to it.

Went to the sweetest free art store here and found this amazing handmade thread book. #embroidery

Travel project update (last slide is the whole thing so far): Day 7: water/river 8: switchbacks 9: the bees that are ridiculously loud in my mom’s roses. Or there’s not much noise pollution here. Maybe both. 10: scrabble tile and with my mom’s initial

Finished: Great Grandma Tillie. I learned so much doing this one! I’ll never make anything like this ever again, but the play and experimenting was priceless. I think I’m going to continue with portraits and I have an idea of where I want to go next.

Thrifted 360 colors of DMC floss yesterday! 2 yds of each color aaaand impossible to use without wrapping. So guess I’m wrapping. It’s from the 90s. I did need some good mid tones for my great grandma’s portrait. #embroidery #secondhand #thrifted

This one is done. Vintage linen napkin, indigo dyed at the Nook Huddle, taken on vacation and embroidered with whatever I had in my bag of random thread and however I felt like embroidering. #indigodyed #nookhuddle #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textilearts

Preparing to start exploring embroidery of faces with my great grandma Tillie. I watched the nook workshop by @sorrellck.bsky.social. I doubt I will follow all of anyone’s advice but it was lovely to watch and a good start.

Vacation project: about home and Montana and staying with my 80 yo parents Day 6: Montana in the summer is relentlessly sunny Previous days are in the last post #applique #slowstitching #embroidery #textileart #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric

Vacation project update! I decided to do one thing to this every day we are here. 1 - on the airplane I did the couched purple circle and green stitching plus some other little bits of stitching and the tea stain which is definitely not set (before I came up with the idea of one thing a day)

Vacation sewing under the apple tree #slowstitching #textileart #embroidery

Found this one at the used book store! Border to Border: Historic Quilts and Quiltmakers of Montana by Annie Hanshew. Can’t wait to dig in. #quilting

Meditative vacation stitching. On a vintage linen, indigo dyed at the Nook Huddle. #slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo

Layers! Also vacation project. This is a vintage linen napkin that was started when I did some printing (and brayer cleaning) with my friend Ellen at the #nookhuddle. I started embroidering to interact with the printing on our first flight today.

May reads! My favorite was Max followed by Sky. Academy of Liars was the only one I didn’t really like much. #booksky

When your coaster doubles as a pin cushion. #quilting #slowstitching

New project. What is about linen? I love it so much. As well as the shredded edges. The purple was hand dyed by my friend Ellen. Green was a pair of pants. #slowstitching #embroidery #upcycledfabric #thriftedfabric

As promised, the back of the fish quilt. Featuring an indigo dyed piece I did at the huddle, print experiments from figuring out what to do on the front of the quilt, and a pieced block by my friend Melissa. #nookhuddle #quiltynook #quilting #improvpiecing #improvquilt

While at the #nookhuddle I made this fish quilt. It was a challenge quilt and all the fabric and other stuff besides the block prints, the upper right fish, and the green and purple background were not mine. Lots of the quilts had fish on them, they sort of became a theme.

These are our favorite books we read aloud this year! Two of them we read in the last month. And two we read sequels to. If you’re a homeschooler we’d love to hear your faves. #readaloud #booksky #homeschooling #unschooling

I went to the #nookhuddle and took like three pictures and rarely checked my phone. It was an amazing, perhaps life changing experience. If nothing else, it was a needed respite. I made a fish quilt. I’ll take a picture of it soon. Here’s a pic of the Smokey Mountains from the house.

Frida Hansen (1855-1931), Norwegian textile artist in the Art Nouveau style known for her tapestry work #womensart

At camping my friend Melissa brought arts and crafts supplies! So a bunch of us made stuff. I did the first page in this set from my altered book. Watercolors and fish from a vintage dictionary also from Melissa.

Homeschool camping trip! Such fun!

My name tag for the Huddle quilt retreat, for which I was generously given a scholarship by a cohort friend @zakfoster.bsky.social #quiltynook #nookhuddle

May apple blossoms

April reads! Lion and Events were read alouds (loved them!). Chasing Secrets and One Came Home were because we are exploring mysteries - both in book form and in movie form. Trampoline was for book club. I enjoyed every last one of these books. #booksky

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Improv quilt - all the blocks so far as arranged by the 11 yo because it’s basically a big felt board. #improvquilting #improvpiecing #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textilearts

More blocks for the improv quilt! I’m way more productive with the little design wall I made a few weeks back. #improvquilting #improvpiecing #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textileart

Mycelia # 2 will be out tomorrow with tons of info and ideas for enjoying Taurus season. If you’d like to try an issue, they’re up for individual sale as well! 🍄

More additions to the improv quilt. #improvquilting #improvpiecing #textilearts

Our first annual homeschool clothes swap was a success! I’m totally moving it to the fall so we can all trade kids’ winter gear.

If you love your library, listen up…

Some Sunday checkerboards for my improv quilt. Ironed a few other I had already done also. Small brown flowers was once on a folding screen my mom bought at a garage sale when I was a kid. #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #improvpiecing #improvquilting #quiltsky

I went to the Fabric Sale by the Salvation Army today. They do it twice a year and the prices really can’t be beat. These are bits and bobs. #thriftedfabric #textilearts

I went to the Fabric Sale by the Salvation Army today. They do it twice a year and the prices really can’t be beat. The first slide are bigger than fat quarter, not over a yard. The next three slides are all fat quarters. #thriftedfabric #textilearts #quilting

The house I grew up in was not messy. My friends’ homes? Mostly not. Mine? Absolutely. Two artists live here. Books, art, musical instruments, puzzles, nature stuff. Now if only my kids’ friends who don’t have messy houses would stop pointing out how messy it is 🤣. I need more messy friends.

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Be inefficient! I really liked playing over the top of this pieced block. What’s your favorite inefficient thing to do? Chop garlic by hand? Knit? Read slowly? #craftivism #textileart #embroidery #upcycledfabric #improvpiecing

Improv play with scraps on the new to me sewing machine. I also wanted to see if the tiny bit of stretch in some pants I deconstructed made much difference while piecing. It did not - center of the lower left block. #quiltsky #improvquilting #upcycledfabric #textileart

Finished: Support each other mushroom embroidery Thrifted fabric, second shot is the stitches glamour shot and fabric texture #upcycledfabric #embroidery #crafivism