Finished this raw edge applique slow stitch quilt. It's only 10 x 10 Inches. I thoroughly enjoyed the process. Very relaxing.
#quiltsky #embroidery #slowstitch

Funky embroidery on an old quilt piece. “Wow them with the minimum,” a manifesto against perfectionism.

The anti-perfectionist manifesto:
“Wow Them with the Minimum.”

Funky embroidery on old quilt piece.

#artquilt quiltsky #slowstitch #imperfection #embroidery

Old quilt piece with funky embroidery. Between “ not enough.” and “ too much.” lives your beautiful life.

Somewhere between “too much” and “not enough,” your beautiful life exists.

Funky embroidery on an old quilt piece.

#artquilt #slowstitch #quiltsky #womensart

Funky embroidery on an old quilt piece. Margaret Atwood quote: “men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”

It’s all about the Patriarchy today, no matter the news. Everyone in the system loses something.

Disconnect: #AndrewM-W arrested for sharing state secrets but not for abusing girls.

Margaret Atwood quote from The Handmaid Tale.

#slowstitch #artquilt #quiltsky #smashthepatriarchy

Yoke of a dress. Terry Tempest Williams quote: “ when women were birds, there was a simple understanding that to sing it Dawn and sing at dusk was to heal the the world through joy. The birds still remember what we had forgotten. That the world is meant to be celebrated.”

Yoke of a dress I made with a Terry Tempest William quote.

Antique quilt piece with funky embroidery and appliqué.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #womenart

Funky stitching on an antique quilt piece. “ we are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn. “

Stitching is my resting place from the troubles of the world.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Antique quilt square with my added funky embroidery. The word say wake up. Kick ass. Repeat. This piece is in yellows and blues.

Wake up. Kick ass. Repeat.

Funky stitching on antique quilt piece. Bringing my stitching together with the power of the original quilt maker. I’m believe whoever she was lived this motto in some way in her life.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #kickass

Stitching on antique quilt piece, this piece says “only the wind knows where it will carry our dandelion souls“. “By AR Asher. As we continue to resist, we need a little whimsy and inspiration.

I hope all of you have something to buoy you in these times. A place to dream and find wonder as we continue to resist.

I love the notion of a dandelion soul, resilient, tough, and light enough to be blown by the wind.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #resist #rest

Stitching on antique quilt piece. “ would you maybe like to meet up somewhere in the woods and just scream? We could get coffee afterwards.”

John Lennon song, lyric, stitched on antique quilt piece “ I heard the news today, oh boy…”.

Stitching on antique quilt piece, “ see you at Nuremberg, fuckers. We are watching.”

News of the weekend combined with cold and snow has had me do these. I assume many of us are feeling some version of these.

Working out my sorrow and anger through my hands and stitch.

Resist. Stand with Minnesota.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #resist #minnesota

Funky embroidery on an antique quilt piece. “We’re all just walking each other home..”. Quote by Ram Dass

Occasional funky embroidery.

“We’re all just walking each other home.” -Ram Dass

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Funky embroidery on an old antique quilt piece. The text says: doing things without knowing how to do the things I am about to do. It’s what we’re all up to at the moment in confronting the crisis in the world.

Seems like, at this moment in history, we are about doing things without knowing how to do the things we are about to do.

Like defending our neighbors, democracy, nonviolence, speaking out, showing up over and over.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #daring #resist

Funky embroidery on antique quilt piece. “Be a giant of generosity. Echo long in this world, bouncing around the rocks in all the strata of the earth, and up to the stoney stars.”

“Be a giant of generosity. Echo long in this world, bouncing around the rocks in all the strata of the earth, and up to the stoney stars.”

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Taking an tattered and worn out antique quilt piece and giving a new life with embroidery. The blue letters say: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world.” Quoting Angela Davis.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world” -Angela Davis

Funky stitching on an antique quilt piece. It’s all about taking what’s tattered and worn out, and giving it a new life.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Collage quilt self portrait. The woman in the center has seaweed hair, birds and fish in her hair, a water torso, branches, for legs, and a leaf dress she is surrounded by leaves an autumn leaf colors.

#blueskyartshow #one

One Wild Woman.

“Our Lady of the Earth”
Quilted self portrait.

#artquilt #slowstitch #quiltsky #earth

“More magic than being” Funky embroidery on antique quilt piece. Pink lotus flower and yellow sunflower and dandelion seed head.

“More magic than being”

Practice noticing the magic in yourself and everyone around you.

Funky embroidery on antique quilt piece.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Modern embroidery on an antique quilt piece. “ I was saved by the beauty of the world.” -Mary Oliver.

“I was saved by the beauty of the world” - Mary Oliver

The original quilt piece was made by an unknown woman for whom perfection mattered.

My added embroidery is imperfect on purpose.

What we have in common is a love of beauty.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Embroidery on the antique quilt piece. “ confidence is optional.”

Detail of embroidery on an antique quilt piece “ confidence is optional”

May we all do what’s needed, whether we are confident or not.

Standing in solidarity with Minnesotans.

“Confidence is Optional”

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #solidarity

My funky embroidery on an antique quilt piece. “It is quite possible you are better than you think you are. “ red apples on green tree on white background.

We all need reminding sometimes.

“It is quite possible you are better than you think you are”

My embroidery on antique quilt piece.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Occasional funky stitching “Art Before Dishes”-Susan O’Malley Embroidery on antique quilt piece. 2026

Occasional funky stitching

“Art Before Dishes”-Susan O’Malley

Embroidery on antique quilt piece. 2026

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery

Embroidery on antique quilt piece. “Sometimes the only available form of transportation is a leap of faith.” Small figure leaping into waiting arms. May we be this for each other.

Occasional funky stitching

“Sometimes the only available form of transportation is a leap of faith”

May we be the waiting arms for each other, catching those who leap.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #embroidery #leapoffaith

Hand embroidery on an antique quilt piece. Quote says: “Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” —-Jacob Norby

Occasional funky stitching on antique quilt piece.

“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
—-Jacob Norby

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #joy #weird

Embroidered large pillow on antique white tattered quilt piece. Covered in favorite and irreverent quotes, plus a tree, quirky flowers, spirals and odd shapes. This pillow is a study in imperfection, fun, revealing the unknown, and practicing “good enough.”

Motto for 2026: “More imperfection and more fun.”

Quirky embroidered pillow.
Stitching while resting.
Joy and irreverence.
Resisting perfection.
Making it “good enough.”

30” square on antique tattered quilt piece.

#artquilt #imperfection #slowstitch #quiltsky #joy #irreverence #2026

A felted, embroidered and beaded letter L decorated with a white egret against a blue sky and olive field with peach flowers

A gift from my stitching sister Pattie #egret #birdart #embroidery #felted #ornament #beading #onlybeautifulthings #uplift #slowstitch #handsewn

I am supposed to be packing the studio but in between some sensory relaxation
#artist #upcycledart #quiltsky #sewsky #slowstitch

My brain is tired after the market today, plus visiting a fascinating 3D printing and laser cutting studio in the village 🙂 So time to #slowstitch - definitely about the process and creating organically... A bonus if outcome is good!

#mindfulmoments #fibrearts #meditative #art #recycle #coudre

Learning to sew. Relaxed, meditative #slowstitch seems the way to begin. The long pieces will be bookmarks. Suggestions for the two large pieces? - they're each two pieces of fabric sewn together, basic sashiko, so quite strong - wall art? journal covers? Sth. else?

#Sunday #dimanche #fibreart

A counted cross-stitch stocking featuring a Native American and a white snowy owl in brown, pale blue, navy and lavender

A Christmas gift for my daughter who lives beside the CA giant redwoods. Honoring the indigenous guardians #christmasstocking #countedcrossstitch #crossstitch #slowstitch #onlybeautifulthings #artshare #uplift #christmas #nativeamerican #christmasdecoration

It's that time again... Late evening, brain is tired, but can happily #slowstitch. It's therapeutic and mindful. No perfection or re-doing. Starting with the running stitch to join together fabric scraps. In the next layer, I'll add a new stitch - suggestions?

#sewing #artsky ##mixedmedia

A Christmas stocking counted cross stitch winter scene depicting a brown sled with metallic gold trim, a peach, pink, gold and yellow sky, a blue and purple church with yellow windows and red cardinals in the white snow with blue and lavender shadows

A Christmas stocking gift for my son. Lined, labeled, dated and backed with blue velvet #christmasstocking #countedcrossstitch #crossstitch #slowstitch #onlybeautifulthings #artshare #sled #uplift #christmas #winter #familyheirloom #christmasdecoration