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Drawing on her Afro-Caribbean ancestry, Kandy G. Lopez celebrates the style, culture, and heritage of individuals as a way to build connections and generate dialogue around representation.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/kandy-g-lopez-embroidered-portraits/
Textile works by Iranian artist Alireza Asbahi Sisi (aka "CC"), 2020s, who learned how to sew from his tailor father and works as a taxi driver to support his art.
From silk, cotton, viscose, and other fibers, Isabelle D crochets innumerable forms evocative of coral, sea sponges, anemones, flowers, molds, spores, and more.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/isabelle-d-crocheted-sculptures/
So happy tonight! Made it to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival today in my sun hat and slathered in sunscreen.
This annual event has been my happy place for so many years, and what I saw there will inspire me over the next several months. More tomorrow!
Pic # 1 How it started
Pic #2 How it ended
Tuning up and hacking this amazing knitting machine for the Windy City Knitting Guild! #knittingmachine #machineknitting #knitting #fiberart
In vibrant patchworks of woven patterns and fuzzy fiber ends, Sarah Zapata’s sculptures emerge as wall-hung tapestries, standalone pieces, and forest-like installations.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/sarah-zapata-textile-sculptures/
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Almost ready! The price has been reduced and is 15$ plus shipping.
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#WIPWednesday finds me cross (stitching). I'm not sure how dense these semi-random cross stitches will get before my patience runs out. I'm hoping to get it is dense as that one spot on the left where I started with brown but, as always, we'll see. #embroidery #fiberArt
Just a reminder that I have a Substack 
If you are interested in reading my ramblings about fashion history, fiber art & slow fashion design, and queer poetry & spirituality, please check it out 
I finished the flowers and then ripped out part of the center one to make the bright pink center larger and to make that whole flower a bit bigger than the rest. I'm definitely going to connect each of the outer circle of flowers to the central one but I have to wait until I'm home with my other colors. (I'm using 10 yard sample skeins of wool that I dyed with natural dyes and didn't bring any greens with me.) #embroidery #fiberArt
Hello!
Almost ready! It will cost 30$ plus shipping.
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Have a good day everyone!
#wip #flowers #needlefelted #craft #fiberart #art #smallbusiness #pixelfed #artwork #felt #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #homedecor #nature #cute #giftideas #needlefelting #artist #garden #sciart #gardening #handmade #plush #artshare #homedecor #bookworm #books #book #reading
I'm making good progress on this piece. I think I'm going to enlarge the center flower-thing and connect all the others to it with brown stems (I don't have any green with me on this trip). Maybe. We'll see.
'Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South' at the Mississippi Museum of Art shines a light on dozens of incredible Black Southern quilters and takes a celebratory approach to showcasing their myriad styles and techniques.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/of-salt-and-spirit-quilts/
