Cosette Cornelius-Bates
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cosymakes.bsky.social
Cosette Cornelius-Bates
@cosymakes.bsky.social
artist, unschooler, plant grower (food and native), reader, thrifter, community builder

https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes
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
July 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
July 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by Cosette Cornelius-Bates
Danielle Clough, contemporary fibre artist and designer from Cape Town, South Africa #womensart
June 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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.

June 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Dill and oregano from the garden

#preserving #dehydrating #gardening
June 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
June 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hot dog
June 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.

June 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Went to the sweetest free art store here and found this amazing handmade thread book.

#embroidery
June 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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
June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
June 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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
June 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
June 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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)
June 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Vacation sewing under the apple tree

#slowstitching #textileart #embroidery
June 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Meditative vacation stitching. On a vintage linen, indigo dyed at the Nook Huddle.

#slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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.
June 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
May reads! My favorite was Max followed by Sky. Academy of Liars was the only one I didn’t really like much.

#booksky
June 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
When your coaster doubles as a pin cushion.

#quilting #slowstitching
June 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
June 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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
May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM