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Cosette Cornelius-Bates

@cosymakes.bsky.social

artist, unschooler, plant grower (food and native), reader, thrifter, community builder https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes

172 Followers  |  123 Following  |  156 Posts  |  Joined: 03.02.2025  |  1.7119

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I don’t really mind. It has a lot of stitching in it I don’t want to disrupt.

05.07.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finished banner, all raw edged appliquΓ© 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

05.07.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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All flourishing is mutual.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer

#quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer

03.07.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo featuring a row of propped up sports rackets against a white wall, each has an embroidery sewn into its strings of a flower or cactus plant in vibrant colours

Photo featuring a row of propped up sports rackets against a white wall, each has an embroidery sewn into its strings of a flower or cactus plant in vibrant colours

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

30.06.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 338    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

#quiltynook #quiltrace2025 #applique #quiltrace #quilting #textileart #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric

29.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right now I see something kind of 60s with the floral brooch shape, the cat eye glasses shape, and the groovy large pink shape. I didn’t see that yesterday.

I used a glass San Pellegrino bottle that was filled with handspun yarn.

29.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

29.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dill and oregano from the garden

#preserving #dehydrating #gardening

27.06.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All the deets are on my Substack.#textileart #embroidery #slowstitching

https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios

23.06.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

22.06.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hot dog

22.06.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I might add one more thing on the planes tomorrow.

#textileart #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabrics

19.06.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

19.06.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went to the sweetest free art store here and found this amazing handmade thread book.

#embroidery

17.06.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

17.06.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Red starry shapes inspired by the cottonwood pollen.
12: tumbleweed

#textileart #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #embroidery #applique

16.06.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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11: at a garage sale I bought a linen table cloth. It was the seller’s grandmas. I told her I’d be making it into art and she said her grandma was an artist so she’d be delighted. She was very happy to hand it off to someone. So circles from that table cloth.

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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

16.06.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve always enjoyed painting and drawing human faces.

#embroidery #quiltynook #embroideredportrait #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textileart

15.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

15.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! What an amazing find.

13.06.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

12.06.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

11.06.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#quiltynook #embroidery

10.06.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Background is the backside of a piece of fabric from the box I got at the garage sale a few days back.

#embroidery #slowstitching #upcycledfabric #thriftedfabric

10.06.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

10.06.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

08.06.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

08.06.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#slowstitching #quilting #textileart #applique #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #blockprinting

07.06.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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