Cosette Cornelius-Bates
@cosymakes.bsky.social
artist, unschooler, plant grower (food and native), reader, thrifter, community builder
https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes
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
All flourishing is mutual. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
#craftivism #banner #embroidery #slowstitching #quiltynook #bannermaking #textileart
July 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
All flourishing is mutual. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
#craftivism #banner #embroidery #slowstitching #quiltynook #bannermaking #textileart
All flourishing is mutual.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
#quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
#quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
July 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
All flourishing is mutual.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
#quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
#quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
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
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 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
All the deets are on my Substack.#textileart #embroidery #slowstitching
https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios
June 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
All the deets are on my Substack.#textileart #embroidery #slowstitching
https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/dancinguponmytoes/p/fee-bee?r=r7689&utm_medium=ios
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
#protestbanner #craftivism #applique
June 22, 2025 at 9:23 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
#protestbanner #craftivism #applique
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.
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
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.
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 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
11: at a garage sale I bought a linen table cloth. It was the seller’s grandmas. I told her I’d be making it into art and she said her grandma was an artist so she’d be delighted. She was very happy to hand it off to someone. So circles from that table cloth.
June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
11: at a garage sale I bought a linen table cloth. It was the seller’s grandmas. I told her I’d be making it into art and she said her grandma was an artist so she’d be delighted. She was very happy to hand it off to someone. So circles from that table cloth.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
#embroidery #secondhand #thrifted
June 12, 2025 at 1:34 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
#embroidery #secondhand #thrifted
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
#indigodyed #nookhuddle #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textilearts
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 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
#indigodyed #nookhuddle #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #textilearts
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
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.
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
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: 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
Day 6: Montana in the summer is relentlessly sunny
Previous days are in the last post
#applique #slowstitching #embroidery #textileart #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric
2 - apples based on the ones on my dad’s young apple tree
3 - wavy blue stitching to symbolize swimming
4 - the couched down mountain shape
5 - today I bought a box of fabric at a yard sale for $1 and selected two pieces, kept their original shape, and sewed them down.
3 - wavy blue stitching to symbolize swimming
4 - the couched down mountain shape
5 - today I bought a box of fabric at a yard sale for $1 and selected two pieces, kept their original shape, and sewed them down.
June 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
2 - apples based on the ones on my dad’s young apple tree
3 - wavy blue stitching to symbolize swimming
4 - the couched down mountain shape
5 - today I bought a box of fabric at a yard sale for $1 and selected two pieces, kept their original shape, and sewed them down.
3 - wavy blue stitching to symbolize swimming
4 - the couched down mountain shape
5 - today I bought a box of fabric at a yard sale for $1 and selected two pieces, kept their original shape, and sewed them down.
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)
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 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)
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 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
#quilting
June 4, 2025 at 8:13 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
#quilting
Meditative vacation stitching. On a vintage linen, indigo dyed at the Nook Huddle.
#slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo
#slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Meditative vacation stitching. On a vintage linen, indigo dyed at the Nook Huddle.
#slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo
#slowstitching #nookhuddle #quiltynook #embroidery #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #indigo
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
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 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM