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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My current display on the “Staff Picks” shelf at the creative reuse center I help run 🦉 #twinpeaks

A shelf full of items that relate to the show Twin Peaks. Coffee mug, donut, miniature Douglas firs, a queen of hearts playing card, an owl notebook and necklace, a postcard of Snoqualmie Falls, chess pieces and blue roses. All sitting on a zig zag fabric with a red curtain backdrop.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We’ve had three sibling juvenile Cooper’s Hawks enjoying our yard the past few days!

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My kid growing up at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium

A series of 8 photos in a grid. They all take place in the same spot at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. They feature the same child over the past 12 years.

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alexfarmerphoto.bsky.social @alexfarmerphoto.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Rainbows over the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Soooo here’s what I’ve been up to! I started at @upcyclepartsshop.bsky.social in January as their Program Manager and I’m doing my very best for them! Follow along, come make stuff!

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I never signed a release

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Been a bit since I posted, but starting a new job has taken over life and made quilting time harder to come by. Still makin it happen though! Here’s a study of Friendship Star and Snowballs made with @sherrilynnwood.bsky.social and the Improv That Block Squad, always made with T-shirts 🧶 #quiltsky

A colorful quilt study lies on a carpeted floor. The study is an improv with Friendship Stars and Snowballs. It’s made with t-shirts only and uses magenta, teal, neon green and navy blue.

Stacks of Snowball quilt blocks and HSTs lie on my work table.

The same quilt study on the floor, but this one has a Brown Boston Terrier for scale.

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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 09/01/2026

This Morning in Cleveland, Ohio

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My #artistvsartist this year! There were some upcycling and mending projects as well, but mostly t-shirt quilts! 🧶 #quiltsky

A photo collage of nine images. All nine photos feature a different quilt I made in 2025. The photo in the middle features me holding a quilt up.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I swear I’ll make it a really cool newsletter!

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It took a year, but I finished! This quilt was made for my friend who experienced a Bipolar 1 break that rocked our world. He’s doing well now, but there are still reverberations from that time. It was a reliable creative object to lean on throughout. More info in alt text about process! 🧶 #quiltsky

An art quilt hangs on a wood paneled wall. The quilt it made from t-shirts: white, black, and hand bleached. The blocks are improv Sawtooth Stars, in various states of explosion. Hundreds of red, metallic stitches hold the quilt together. There are sequins, beads, and pearls as added texture. The quilt is about 1’ x 3’ and it hangs from a bamboo rod by silver metal clips.

The back of the quilt. I used a scrap of black fabric of unknown origin. The metallic, red stitches are obvious from this side. You can also see the metal rivets of the set pearls. I like this side, too.

A side angle of the quilt. Many of the textural elements catch the light coming in through my basement window.

A detailed shot of one of the stars, showing the variety of textural details. Metallic threads, sequins, seed beads, and set pearls. The diverse results of bleaching different black t-shirts is also apparent, with some deep orange, and others a barely faded brown.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Finished this book some time ago, but needed to go crazy with the post-its to feel like I’m ready for the talks! Thanks, @michelleicard.bsky.social, I’m really thankful I discovered this book before I really needed it 😆

“Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen” by Michelle Icard sits on a black table. There are many yellow post-its sticking out of the side, noting important topics throughout the book.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Completed my third quilt! It was made during my improvisational quilting studies earlier this year where I used only t-shirts! This one tells an icy Lake Erie story: ice crashing, geese flying, and lake glass tumbling. I gifted it to my daughter on her 11th birthday 🧶 #quiltsky

A quilt covers a bed with soft light coming in through the window behind it.

A colorful quilt made of t-shirts is spread out on my studio floor. The quilt includes a section of improv orange peels, and it surrounded by flying geese and tumbler blocks.

A shot of the details of the corner of the quilt.

A shot of the back of the quilt. The quilt was signed by embroidery saying, “👁️❤️U”

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Kurt Vonnegut knew what was happening in 1985.

A paragraph in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galápagos. It reads, “”You, *Doctor Hiroguchi,” she went on, “think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you’re scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?””

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Feeling proud of the quilts I’ve made the past six months in my “Improv That Block” workshop with @sherrilynnwood.bsky.social I couldn’t have imagined I would create these functional pieces of art and now I can’t stop! I used only t-shirts and they are as snuggly as you imagine! 🧶 #quiltsky

A picture collage of six improvisational quilts. The quilt blocks that are improved are (from L to R) Tumbler, Spiderweb, Orange Peel, Snowball, Hourglass, and Bricks. These were all made used t-shirts mostly from my collection and supplemented with thrift store finds.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Started an account for my band! Follow along, help me get into the Cleveland scene!

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Happy pride from the beaches of Cleveland!

A rainbow of lake glass lies on an outstretched palm. In the background is the Cleveland skyline and a beautiful blue sky.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Had this little sweetie hanging around our yard for a few days. We named it Albert, cause, you know, the hair! #bird

A Robin fledging perches on a patio chair.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Staining the bathroom sink at home like real punk rock girls. Also I think I was subconsciously inspired by my paint by number when planning out these colors?

A young person looks to the wall to show off the back of their new hairdo. I cut and colored it at home, I am not a professional but I’m proud! The bob features layers of hot pink, orange, and purple.

The new hairdo is being compared to the paint by number of Zion that I just finished. The layers of colors are markedly similar and was not really planned, just the colors we happened to have at the house.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

All I wanted was the Waldo Stick from my childhood for my birthday. Today I turn 42 and my wish came true.

The famous Waldo Stick. It’s a tube about a foot long, with purple, silver, red and blue glitter floating in clear liquid. There is also a tiny Waldo floating inside waiting to be found.

There’s Waldo! A tiny Waldo floats inside the glitter tube.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hourglass improv complete! This one is an homage to the tie-dye of my teen years and how that doesn’t seem very long ago and also a lifetime ago all at once? Time is weird! Made with only t-shirts from my collection 🧶 #quiltsky

A quilt top lies on my studio floor. There is a brown Boston terrier lying near the middle and looking at the viewer.

This is an improvisational quilt using the Hourglass Block as the riff. I used black and various tie-dye t-shirts as the fabric to form the high contrast hourglass shapes in various scales and arrangements.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thinking about where he’s gonna sit in my garden

A statue of Rodin’s The Thinker is wearing his seatbelt in the back of my car.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the tie-dyed t-shirts of my teen years 🧶 #quiltsky #tiedye #tshirts

A series of hourglass blocks made from t-shirts lay in an improv pattern on my studio floor. The blocks are still unseen. There are two “colors” at play: black and various tie-dye color ways. I played with scale and aimed for three sizes to fit together in various ways.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Lake Erie serving up perfect glass today

My left hand holding a large, smoothed piece of green lake glass. Bradstreet’s Landing Pier is peeking out of the left side of the photo. It was cloudy, but lots of sunshine breaks which makes for good glassin!

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Still need to figure out its final form, but I love the little pop art pup quilt I made during a workshop with @iothealien.com! All new techniques for me and of course I just used what was on hand, including vintage daisy printed fabrics and my daughter’s tattered sweater for batting! #quiltsky 🧶

A small quilt lies on a white surface. It has been quilted but the edge still is needs binding. The main fabric is a vintage yellow daisy print. In the center is an appliquéd patch of my brown Boston terrier’s face. There are a variety of fabric colors used to create the shapes and contours of her face, all different Daisy themed fabrics as well.

A cropped shot of the main details of the quilt.

An even closer up shot of the appliqué details and the straight line quilting.

A shot of the quilt on my sewing machine during quilting. The edge of the quilt is turned up to reveal a tattered cheap pink sweater of my daughters that I tried as batting.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We lost Joann not even because she’s a bad person, she’s just bad with money 😆 m.youtube.com/shorts/mIOPe...

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Kristin Key: The Joanns Song

YouTube video by Kristin Key

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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 29/04/2025

Tonight’s Thinker Sunflare in Cleveland, Ohio

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Learning the Snowball quilt block and the magic of creating 1/2 square triangles at the same time! Seriously blew my mind 🤯 #quiltsky 🧶

Unsewn tshirt quilt blocks lay on a white surface. They are improvisations on the classic Snowball block. There are also 1/2 square triangles that are created during the process incorporated into the layout. The colors are deep turquoise, pinks, light teal, and hi-vis green.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Another quilt top completed! Made with mostly thrifted t-shirts, except for the snow-dyed bits my kiddo and I made after our first big snow! Tried to use quilt blocks to tell a Lake Erie story…flying geese & tumblers for the lake glass that tumbles around and we pick up as treasure 🧶 #quiltsky

A completed tshirt quilt top lays on my studio floor. A brown Boston terrier lays near the middle and looks up at the viewer. The main piece of the quilt is an Orange peel improv using snow-dyed t-shirt bits, purples, blues and, grays. It is surrounded by two other blocks that I thought evoked Lake Erie: sunset colored flying geese and lake glass colored tumblers (for the Lake glass we love to collect).

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Do you ever just stare at your blocks and disassociate for a bit? 🧶 #quiltsky #improvquilting #tshirt

Tshirt quilt blocks lay on my studio floor. They aren’t all sewn together just yet. There’s an orange peel improv in the center, surrounded by some flying geese and tumblers.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I love that she made art for everyone in detention….But how absolutely awful.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Spider’s Web top completed! Boston Terrier for scale, of course 😏 Mistakes were made, accepted, and noted for the future. This was made with t-shirts, both sentimental (my dad’s hi-viz shirts he wore for work) and thrifted single-use (5k event for example). Whew, glad to be finished! 🧶 #quiltsky

A finished quilt top lays on my studio floor. There is a brown Boston terrier lying on the quilt looking at the viewer. The quilt is made with both sentimental and single-use t-shirts. The blocks are mainly improvisations on the classic Spider’s Web quilt block. Colors include black, white, grays, teals, purples, and actual hi-viz strips from my dad’s work shirts.

Another picture of the brown Boston terrier on the quilt. This time she is close up and in focus, the quilt is just a background.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Should be sewing, but felt compelled to paint a version of my Orange Peels improv 🧶 #quiltsky #improvquilting #watercolor

A finished watercolor painting sits on a white desk surrounded by watercolor tools. The painting is a version of an improv quilt I made out of t-shirts, riffing on the classic Orange Peels quilt block. The colors include neon purple, metallic blue, charcoal gray and a mix of the three with salt added to give it the tie-dye pattern of the original quilt.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My family just played an awesome quilt-themed game that my husband found at the secondhand booth at Gen Con…It’s called Patchwork Doodle and I might just make the quilt that I designed during the game 😆 I tried to use the patterns I’ve learned from my #improvquilting workshops! 🧶

My completed game card for the Patchwork Doodle game.

The front of the Patchwork Doodle game box.

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Mallory Gallery @mallory-gallery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Went to the vintage clothing expo and all I got was this amazing troll stuff

A vintage Russ troll dressed as an artist and 3 packs of troll-themed collector cards sit on a wooden surface.

3 vintage t-shirts hang on a purple background at the expo. The shirt in the middle is a vintage black Blind Melon tshirt that I also own. Mine is in better shape than this one and it’s marked at $175!

A weird CBS Fox Video trashcan(?) with a picture of Tom Hanks from the movie Big sits on the floor of a booth at the expo.

Far too many vintage Christina Aguilera stickers hang on a red metal grid display.

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