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Mallory Gallery
@mallory-gallery.bsky.social
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trash to treasure / improvisational quilting /
ukulele with Kodachrome Babies / lake glass /
vinyl records / expired film / occasional BT

Cleveland, Ohio
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I was 16 working at a huge antique mall in the late 90’s when I grabbed these!
R. Crumb comic books are scattered across a table.
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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.
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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”
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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?””
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Saw Amadeus with the Cleveland Orchestra playing the score and it was 🤩 even made my husband some Nipples of Venus to enjoy that night!
A tray of sweets sits on a table. They are the “Nipples of Venus” you see in the movie Amadeus, made to eat before we saw the movie with a live orchestra.
August 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I attended an upcycling event where we made ourselves a “blue ribbon” mine was to celebrate one year living in a new city!
An upcycled award ribbon that reads “1” hangs on a cork board with other ephemera.
July 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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You even got the tufts 😍
A robin fledgling perches on a patio chair.
June 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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.
June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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My arm is holding out a vinyl copy of “Dutch Masters” by Dutch band Focus.
June 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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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. A Robin fledging perches on a patio chair. A Robin fledging perches on a patio chair. A Robin fledging perches on a patio chair.
June 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Here’s my husband as a little guy in the Netherlands! It’s now a casino.
A little boy sits with his aunts at a restaurant in the Netherlands sometime in the 1980s. The restaurant was built right over the highway.
May 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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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.
May 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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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. A detailed shot of the Where’s Waldo? logo on the glitter tube. There’s Waldo! A tiny Waldo floats inside the glitter tube.
May 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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.
May 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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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.
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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.
May 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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But but but 🥺
A milkshake in a Jazz Solo cup sits next to a creamed chicken sandwich from Softies in Dover, Ohio.
May 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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!
May 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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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.
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Growing up, my parents had Kliban books and I would often sneak them away to peek inside 👀 Still have the books, and I can’t resist a cat when I find it.

Thanks for your contributions to the world, Derf! Rereading Punk Rock and Trailer Parks right now!
Two Kliban tchotchkes frame a hand drawn cell from an American Splendor comic written by Harvey Pekar, drawn by Eddie Piskor.
May 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I make poofs and shove all my scraps (or entire shirts haha) in there!
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I love what the lake spits out!
I’m holding a chunk of blue and white ceramic glass that I found at Rocky River Park in Cleveland, Ohio A shot of my fingers holding a piece of light blue lake glass. A shot of a “hag stone” or a stone with a hole worn all the way through. These have been said to hold mystical powers.
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Itchy Monday
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Our neighborhood deer ate most of my tulips (left the bulbs though!) so I decided to just snip the rest and enjoy ‘em. Our new fence can’t come soon enough!
A small bouquet of tulips in a handmade ceramic vase on a black table. The tulips are dark pink and the vase is turquoise.
April 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM