the resourcefulness of rot, the wholeness of fungi

I'm almost done with all the image editing which is great and exciting since that's the bulk of the project. I have a ton of other blog topics and experiments I want to run off and do, but I'm making sure I finish this first!

you may be wondering why I'm posting pictures of random towels and the answer is that I MADE them on a LOOM and it took me the better part of a year but they are DONE

they're a five-shaft waffle weave. it's kind of a shame that you can't see the structure of the waffles as well off the loom (they're very pretty), but they're so plush i'm not that fussed about it

please admire the waffles

more process pics under the read more

Up til now I have only ever ripped batts into vertical stripes which would be contraproductive to keep a gradient

First you have your nice pretty batt

And you unroll it

Then you reroll it lengthwise into a big rolag

Then you gently pull from one of the ends along the length of the big rolag

I then like to wind it into a rough ball for safe keeping

This is one of my pieces up for auction to raise money for Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/120568/auctions/186107/auction_items/6340324

(There is also so much other amazing art up for auction as well!)

My linen quilt is finished!! This was made from all leftover linen from garments i've made- i always get way too much yardage, whoops- except the black. I was planning on using the black for garment things but then i had this quilt idea, so, pivoted.

This was a beast but im so so happy with how it turned out. Shes very moody.

It was machine pieced but hand quilted. I really fell in love with hand quilting while making this! Throwing on an audio book and just sewing for 3ish hours in the evenings was lovely and calming.

And if you ever want to quilt with linen, spray starch is your best friend. Lots of spray starch.