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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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)

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

Tapesty with image of three white female figures and three white bears and stylised art deco motifs of flowers and landscape

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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

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Mycelia Zine @galaxy-mushroom.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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! 🍄

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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.

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you love your library, listen up…

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It's officially #TakeActionForLibraries Day! To celebrate and advocate for libraries and library funding, we want every library lover to make their voice heard today. Head to ala.org/showup to take action by calling or emailing Congress, writing a letter to your local newspaper, and more!

Tell Congress to protect library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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

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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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