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Domenica
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Plastic is an heirloom material.
Traditional craft & contemporary life.

Hispappalachian Artist from West Virginia
(Familia Catalana í Mexicana)
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What you been up to?
Oh, nuthin', just Recomposing my little heart out with some friends. I have so much new work to share!!! (After the June 13th)
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Recomposition Art Opening Rosalie Haizlett, Wilhelmina McWhorter, Domenica Queen, Nevada Tribble June 13th, 5-7pm at the Randolph County Community Art Center Dress Code: your most outlandish outfit. Bonus points for ABC (Anything But Clothes) Wear your best trash couture!
June 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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St. Mallard
Plastic bag embroidery and applique backed with bubble mailer
2025
Portrait of a mallard framed by cattails. Pink sunburst halo frames the head. Construction is all embroidery and appliqued plastic bags.
March 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I wove through my little 2.5 yard warp 🎉 I have plenty to improve on, but I got to try out several ideas and had a good time.
March 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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MY TABLE LOOM IS WARPED.
I had a little help from friends to dress it, but I GET IT NOW!
Wow that was a lot and it's only 2shaft 66 ends. Setup for these things is so much work that I feel like I have completed a whole project, even though I literally just started.

#warping #weaving #FiberArt
Small 2 shaft table loom with the warp tied neatly onto the apron rod.
February 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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plastic sketchbook
2025

I went through my box of UFO's and bound up some samples that I've kept for reference.
February 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Caution bag
2022
Plastic Grocery bags woven on a 12"wide 2 shaft loom.
#FiberArt #Weaving #reuse
This is the piece that has driven me down a years long weaving wormhole. It was incredibly hard figuring out how to warp the loom at all and using delicate strips of plastic was doing it the hard way.
Bag made of woven plastic. Orange, grey, black and yellow in a plain weave structure.
February 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Haystacks
2022
Plastic rug hooking and embroidery on monks cloth

My favorite part of this one is how blended the yellow and green at the top of the hill look because I clipped the loops.

#FiberArt #rughooking #recycle #reuse
February 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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If you have been considering using experimental textures or pushing your rug projects to include more salvaged and repurposed materials. I'm offering two workshops this year during rug hooking week that will spark your creativity.
Plastic Playing Fiber & Bag to Rug
saudervillage.org/classes-even...
A small hand hooked rug illustrating water flowing between rocks made of recycled plastic is propped up against a blue wooden figure drawing manikin.
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Honey comb home
2022
Hand hooked rug, recycled plastic on monks cloth in a wooden hexagonal frame.

I just love all of the available symbolism of bees, don't you? And there are so many kinds beyond our familiar honey bee friends.

#FiberArt #rughooking #reuse #bees
Honey comb home 2022 Hand hooked rug, recycled plastic on monks cloth in a wooden hexagonal frame. The small rug depicts a bee viewed from the top. The bee is off center inside an orange hexagon on a yellow background.
February 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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What would you make with this icee colored plastic yarn?

I have been spinning a lot lately and am making nice, stable 2-ply yarns on drop spindle and a Clemes & Clemes tower wheel. Now the question is what to make...

#plarn #FiberArt #handspun #dropspindle #spinningwheel #carnival #reuse #yarn
February 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This is a really small rigid heddle setup I was using to learn. Basically you use your body and a post or clamp to tension the warp. You end up working as part of the loom.
February 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Happy Palentines Day
Hope you're getting some love from the good people in your life.

Strawberry
2023
Plastic cross stitch on plastic produce mesh framed in corrugated plastic

#FiberAry #CrossStitch #EcoArt #reuse
Strawberry 2023 Plastic cross stitch on plastic produce mesh framed in corrugated plastic. The strawberry is pink with red shading, white seeds and green leaves. The background is mesh that makes the negative space around the strawberry transparent. The square frame where the mesh is stretched is white. The entire piece is sitting in a living potted strawberry plant as a backdrop that has healthy green leaves
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Excited to be teaching at Rug Hooking Week this year with Sauder Village ❤️ I've got 2 classes scheduled to show students how to hook with waste plastic & registration is open ✨
saudervillage.org/classes-even...
#FiberArt #rughooking
A posable green modeling figure holds up a small hand hooked design depicting a yellow flower with green leaves and stem on a brown background. The hooked area is framed by a border of canvas that has been painted yellow.
February 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Thinking about technology.
This is a photo from a tablet weaving workshop this past summer. Warps and cards were set up for us by Enrica McMillan at the Augusta Heritage Festival and she showed us the basics. Happy to say I know how to warp my own cards now. You get 4 lines of code then remix.
Pink, light green and dark green warp threads stretched onto a frame and threaded through holes at the 4 corners of a series of cards. Part of the warp threads have been woven into a narrow decorative band with a repeating pattern of dark green, light green and pink. A hand is twisting the cards partially towards the camera to show the shed in the warp and the threading of cards
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Wooble Cousins
2024
One Wooble Crochet Penguin kit and its cousin of the same pattern with all the kit material replaced with plastic bags.

#FiberArt #Crochet
February 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Upstream
2022
Quilted plastic with bubble wrap as batting. Goldfish and stream details are plastic embroidery and 3 dimensional applique. Hand and machine stitching throughout.

This was a fun one to make but it always feels a little sinister recreating images of waterways with plastic.

#FiberArt
Upstream 2022 A tall rectangle depicting 2 orange fish weaving through blue water between brown stones that poke out of the rapids. Quilted plastic with bubble wrap as batting. Goldfish and stream details are plastic embroidery and 3 dimensional applique. Hand and machine stitching throughout. Detail close up of Upstream showing the embroidery stitching on an orange fish 2022 A tall rectangle depicting 2 orange fish weaving through blue water between brown stones that poke out of the rapids. Quilted plastic with bubble wrap as batting. Goldfish and stream details are plastic embroidery and 3 dimensional applique. Hand and machine stitching throughout. Detail close up of Upstream showing the embroidery stitching on an orange fish. Thank you printed on a grocery bag can be read in the watery background. 2022 A tall rectangle depicting 2 orange fish weaving through blue water between brown stones that poke out of the rapids. Quilted plastic with bubble wrap as batting. Goldfish and stream details are plastic embroidery and 3 dimensional applique. Hand and machine stitching throughout.
February 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Sometimes I take a break from the plastic embroidery and use regular old fabric textiles. Isn't this lil guy cute!?

#FiberArt #CrossStitch #Embroidery
February 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Dried flower preserves
2023
Plastic embroidery on plastic bag framed in plastic peanut butter jar lid

#fiberart #embroidery
Dried flower preserves 2023 Plastic embroidery on plastic bag framed in plastic peanut butter jar lid
February 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Sea of clouds
2022
Hand hooked plastic on monks cloth
#fiberart #rughooking
February 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Sea of clouds
2022
Hand hooked plastic on monks cloth
#fiberart #rughooking
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Forces
2021
Hand hooked plastic and woven plastic embroidery on monks cloth
It's been a few years since I made this, but the feelings remain. This is what's in my head whenever I politely say "I'm fine"
February 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Forces
2021
Hand hooked plastic and woven plastic embroidery on monks cloth
It's been a few years since I made this, but the feelings remain. This is what's in my head whenever I politely say "I'm fine"
February 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Roots
2021
Plastic embroidery on fused Plastic
I love that this piece now lives with a microbiologist friend. It just makes sense.
White Plastic embroidered roots stitched onto a base of heat fuse brown Plastic that has a crinkled texture. The roots are inside of a circle that was embossed into the base material.
February 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Quilted
Fused plastic toilet paper and chip bag pillow
2021
I do love a visual joke
January 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Something more recent
Woobly Watery Portals
Plastic embroidery on plastic backing
Summer 2024
Wobbly portal/water reflection inspired blue teal and white abstract embroidery made of plastic embroidered onto plastic Wobbly portal/water reflection inspired blue teal and white abstract embroidery made of plastic embroidered onto plastic Wobbly portal/water reflection inspired blue teal and white abstract embroidery made of plastic embroidered onto plastic Wobbly portal/water reflection inspired blue teal and white abstract embroidery made of plastic embroidered onto plastic
January 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM