Woman grows flax and makes linen from it!
(I was crying every time she complained about flax not growing in 3 months as it was expected, she planted it in late summer instead of early spring and expected it to grow in December T_T)
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Gonna yell "TEXTILES ARE WHAT MAKES US HUMAN!" at anyone spouting acephobic nonsense about how sex/romantic relationships make us human.
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pardalote's top 20 makes for 2023, number twenty.
These embroidered stones give me great joy. They are also poking me - I have a continuation of this series in mind. Maybe after Christmas. And after I finish working on my current online course. And my submission to the petite textiles exhibition and...
Anyway. I thought these were a good way to wrap up my 2023 top twenty makes. I enjoy working with stones very much: it's a response to the the earth/Earth that I love and depend upon. I enjoy the contrast between the soft and hard, the manmade and the natural, the grid and the curve.
And now back to my regular stream of random new things I'm making.
Hugs to you all. Being on tumblr again has made 2023 so much better for me. You all rock - I love reading all your comments and tags and asks. Thank you!
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Went to a big quilting convention today and am feeling inspired so here's todays edition of
What the fuck do you mean that's a quilt??
Most people have no idea about how much craft goes into quilting or how much quilting as a craft, art, and even a science has been evolving in recent years. So here's my personal appreciation post
And btw the flat images do NOT even do these quilts justice, especially in terms of the absolutely amazing and detailed texture embroidery that a lot of quilters are using these days. Up close the texture and the sheer detail of many of them is just stunning
These are all from the Road to California quilt show 2023
1st Place: Portrait
Title: Sharing the Moment
Maker: Hollis Chatelain
Quilter: Hollis Chatelain
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
African-American women are a powerful force in motivating their families and communities to vote. I wanted to create a piece about this and highlight the fact that African-American women did not receive the right to vote in all 50 states until 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed. I met Phyllis at a rally. I was drawn to her and asked if she would be my model. Without hesitation she said yes. She later brought her friend Loretta with her.
1st Place: Naturescape
Title: Augustinii
Maker: Andrea Brokenshire
Quilter: Andrea Brokenshire
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
“Augustinii” is a blue/purple variety of rhododendron my momma planted within her forest garden. I was lucky to be home on when it was in bloom. When I see this quilt, I am reminded of my momma and how she loves to tend her garden and “grub in the dirt.”
1st Place: Pictorial
Title: Leap of Faith
Maker: Kestrel Michaud
Quilter: Kestrel Michaud
Design Basis: Original design
In this Steampunk fantasy world, men and women have taken to the skies on ships held aloft by hot air, ingenuity, and luck. Faith’s favorite past-time is bungee-jumping off the side of her airship, with Bubo, her pet clockwork owl. This quilt depicts the photo Faith took on her latest jump to test her brand-new camera and selfie stick.
2nd Place: Naturescape
Title: Homage to Birches Bare
Maker: Jessica Noble
Quilter: Jessica Noble
Design Basis: Fabric recreation of Kesler Woodward's Birches Bare, acrylic on
I fell in love with Kesler Woodward’s Birches Bare painting and knew I had to create it in fabric. I cut about 1,700 pattern pieces out of freezer paper and then fused fabric, through the fall of 2019 until the pandemic started. During this time, I homeschooled my two children and the quilt sat in quarantine. I quilted this freehand on my midarm in the winter of 2021. I managed to take the majority of the summer of 2022 on the binding.
2nd Place: Pictorial
Title: Toroweap Overlook
Maker: Sandra Mollon
Quilter: Sandra Mollon
Design Basis: Derived from a photo
Toroweap Overlook, in the Grand Canyon National Park, is an incredible view of the Colorado River. When John Slot sent me the photo to consider for an art quilt, I realized the complexity of the amount of the pieces it would require, but knew I had to do it. Raw edge fused, machine quilted, small amounts of media.
3rd Place: Pictorial
Title: Catch it Yuri!
Maker: Hiroko Miyama and Masanobu Miyama
Quilter: Hiroko Miyama
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
Inspired by dogs’ action. Yuri, golden retriever big jumped to catch a ball and Ponta, mix hardly waited his turn. Dogs and girl were fused appliquéd.
Seriously can you believe these are all quilts!!! incredible amazing showstopping spectacular
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G3 Venus really caught my eye buuut looking at local prices for MH... Im sad to say that if her price is gonna be this bad (or worse) then I wont be able to justify spending so much...
So I decided to do what I always do and make my own <.<
Tiny Venus joins my desktop buddies group ><
Work-in-progress under the cut!
I wanted to mix elements from both original and new design so I made them both in a dressup app
I like left one's color pallete sliighly better so thats what I aimed for
I reused my last doll pattern (y/n doll) with some modifications (different fabric = different stretch) bc I wanted to get same cartoonish proportions. It took several tries bc I kept messing up limbs-torso ratio >.>
Her clothes and jewelry are supposed to look upcycled (bc they are!)
Pattern bros!
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Leaf bags!!!! Leaf! Bags! 🌿
These are little drawstring bags I made entirely by hand out of scrap fabric. They both have a brown fabric lining on the inside and the strings are made of braided yarn. I love these to death (I promise they're more green irl the camera I use makes green look more gray)
They were originally for dice but idk what I'll put in them yet. (I was kinda inspired by Orym of the Air Ashari) Also I used a back stitch for the embroidery 🌻
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[Image ID: three images of two small drawstring bags that look almost the exact same. They're both an oval shape that comes down to a point at the bottom to look like leaves, they're both green with a lighter green embroidery on both sides to mimic the lines on a leaf, and they both have brown braided yarn drawstrings that fray at the ends. The bags are about the size of an altiods tin. The first image is of both of them, one is open and the other is pulled closed. The second image is of the open one, and the third image is of the closed one. All images have a black background. End ID]
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florence + the machine lyrics x colors x textiles in art — blue
Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs // Young Woman in an Armchair – unknown artist 🌊 Swimming – Lungs // Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress – unknown artist 🌊 No Light, No Light – Ceremonials // Elisabeth Rachel Félix – Edmond Geffroy 🌊 Spectrum – Ceremonials // Portrait of Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies – Vincente López Portaña 🌊 Bedroom Hymns – Ceremonials // Portrait of Isabella II of Spain – Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz 🌊 What Kind of Man – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful // Lady in a Blue Dress – Franz Eybl 🌊 How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful // The Infanta Isabel of Bourbon – Vincente Palmaroli 🌊 Make Up Your Mind, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful // Portrait of Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily – Vincente López Portaña
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