Flame & Honeycomb

A cloth wall hanging with hand appliqué depicting an apple cut in half cross wise to show the star shape the seed chambers make. Between the apple halves is a knife and above a red banner with embroidered letters reading “mundane magic”. All cloth hand dyed with botanicals (Madder, Pomegranate with iron, Rose leaf with iron, Black Walnut, and Birch bark).

A poster for the Queer Arts Festival. Lettering say: Saturday, August 2, 10 am-4 pm, masked access hour 10-11am, at Millstone Hill, 59 Little John Rd, Barre, VT, 80+ artists vendors! Music & performances! Food * art builds * queer history * kids zone * forest trails, all welcome * free entry. The poster has a drawing of two raccoons in a garden peeling the skin off watermelons to reveal what looks like disco balls.

I’ll be at the VT Queer Arts Festival tomorrow, if anyone close to central VT sees this! Come say hi and check out my new fiber works, including this hand appliquéd wall hanging! #vermontarts #queerarts #centralvt #fiberarts #queermarket #slowcraft #makersmarket #craftfair #queerartsfestival

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Yesss! So beautiful and I love that you hand pieced it 😍!

Granny Squares for Gaza Quilt heading to Derry   The quilt comprises of 2300 squares, each representing 10 children murdered by Israel in Gaza Craftivism for Palestine will team up with the Bloody Sunday Trust to bring their Granny Squares for Gaza quilt to Derry. Thw quilt will arrive in the city on Tuesday, July 29 and will be laid out on ---

Granny Squares for Gaza Quilt heading to Derry  

Image shows a bearded Māori man draped in gloriously colourful quilts he has made. He wears a multi-coloured crocheted beaning on his head

Hey #Aotearoa peeps — here’s some awesome kaupapa that you might like to get behind. If you’ve ever seen anything about Ron Tekawa & his fabulous quilt work, you’ll be chucking money at this!!
#kikorangi

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Y'all! You're doing my work for me by celebrating events at BPL and I'm absolutely tearing up with joy.
Yes do come see the beautiful Transmissions Quilts
Check out this amazing link including the exhibit guide: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/transmission...

Stunning!!

Amazing, thank you! That makes sense about EPP. I will actually have enough solar power to run an electric sewing machine, just not enough for an iron since they pull sooo much energy. Luckily a family friend has a set of sad irons I can use. 🤞 I learn quick and don’t burn a hole in anything 😜

Have you tried online mail services like stamps dot com or pirate ship? I’ve used both, but pirate ship is free and less glitchy in my experience. They make it easy to compare shipping prices, give discounted shipping fees, and you can pay them and print your label and not have to wait in line at PO

Thank you! I looked into cordless irons but it seemed like they were meant to continually sit on a plugged in base every time you put the iron down? But I should look into it more to see if I missed something 🎉

Patchwork of your grandmothers quilt. This is a really beautiful project! Good luck with everything!

The harder it is to get it through the fabric. Look into thimbles and see if there are any styles that work for you. I also use pliers to pull my needle through which saves my wonky joints. Look at different patterns of stitches that people use to quilt to get ideas of what might fit best with the

Incredibly special to see her stitches! I agree that just looking up hand quilting videos on YouTube will get you far. Experiment with different needle types. You want something strong enough that it’s not bending on you when you’re trying to push the needle through, but the thicker the needle is,

So beautiful!! I support your desire to hand quilt it, both as a hand quilter myself and also to keep the continuity of her beautiful hand stitched piecing 😍. I have a quilt top that my great grandma hand pieced that I will be slowly mending/reinforcing and then re-quilting one day and it’s so

Gorgeous!

🤣 as a quilter who dyes all the fabric I use, it’s pretty great tho 😜

So sweet!!

Yesss, just found that out! 😖🤪

And if you are still tired, maybe your bod is having issues with absorption. I’m taking mine with vitamin C (which helps with absorption) and still coming up low in my blood work 😳. Gonna try a couple more things but might have to go to IV iron next 😱. Good luck out there everybody! 🥳

BIG EXCITING NEWS - "The Quilters" will be streaming worldwide on @Netflix as of May 16th! It is mind-boggling to think that these men & their wonderful sewing group will be available in 191 countries and 32 languages! Tell all your friends & quilters!
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Hand quilted with a cotton linen blend thread dyed with indigo.

#slowart #fiberart #handquilting #botanicaldye #functionalart

A photo of a square quilt hanging on the outside wooden wall of a tool shed. It is made from strips of fabric dyed with many different plants (and one insect) in shades of green, gray, brown, blue, yellow, tan, and pink. The strips are sewn diagonally on different squares and then sewn together to make diamond shapes.

A photo of a close up of the quilt described in the last photo. This on focuses in on a place where the squares meet and you can see the hand quilted stitches, sewn with blue indigo dyed thread. A corner of the quilt is flipped over and held up by my hand so you can see the backing of the quilt; flannel dyed light blue with indigo. In the very corner is a tag of the flame and honeycomb logo, a drawing of a flame filled with honeycomb and a bee walking across it. Hand embroidered around the label with unbleached cotton thread is the word “polychrome”.

Meet Polychrome! A 62”x62” cozy beauty made from many strips of botanically dyed fabrics. Named Polychrome both for the literal meaning of “many colors” and for the Rainbow’s daughter in the original Oz books. The backing is flannel and was dipped haphazardly in an indigo vat and looks like the sky.

Congrats!!!

Love this babe 😭😍

Thank yooou 🎉. Waiting for some upcoming dye projects to be done and so excited to jump back in!

Thank you for this! With patchwork, it’s best to press after each seam 😓, but this technique would work good for quilt backings and such!

The quilt is so beautiful 😭❤️😭

Amazing, thank you!! ❤️🎉

And I actually should be able to run my electric sewing machine, but I grew up using an old treadle singer that my mom still uses! Or, a treadle that she converted to be a hand crank because when we got it I was too small to be able to control the heavy treadle 😜

I’ve heard that 12 volt irons exist, but I’m wondering how effective they are. I’m going to get one of those ironing board covers that concentrates the heat from below, and just saw something about using wooden weights to really get a good press after ironing.