Miles 🐟

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I’m miles! 🐟 || Making things & drawing pictures || Agender, they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌹 || linktr.ee/mimblex

a freeform pieced quilt block, in random geometric squares and triangles. a larger linocut print of a poppy on unbleached linen is incorporated. the fabrics are pale pinks, pale yellow, various creams and dark indigo blue
two patchwork quilt blocks, pieced together with many bits of cotton and linen fabric. they both share similar color palettes, with dark indigo blue, dusty pink, pale yellow, and various shades of cream, beige, and gray. the top block is kind of a freeform geometric arrangement, while the bottom block is a 9-square checkerboard framed in pale yellow and indigo
a tiny zipper pouch with a wobbly sawtooth star quilt block on the front. the block is sewn with pale yellow, dusty pink, dark indigo blue, and tan linen fabrics. the star block has been pieced freeform so the corners don’t line up and it’s all slightly askew
a hand holding a cute tiny rainbow trout pin!! it is made out of pale green and tan fabric with painted-on features: big cute eyeball, pink cheek and flash going down the side, dark gray spots and white tummy
a hand holding a handmade fabric pin in the shape of a salmon. the body is pale red and the head and tail is pale green. the features have been painted on with white and gray paint
four mini quilt blocks, hung on pieces of beach driftwood. the centers of the blocks have black ink linocut prints, of chanterelle mushrooms, a guppy, and a morel mushroom
“Sashiko 365” by Susan Briscoe, on the Libby library app.
a 4x4 inch square of sashiko embroidery, done with cream thread on dark indigo linen. the sample is lying in a wood table with various sashiko materials scattered around it - thread bits, needles, leather thimble
a person in a green and yellow tie dye tshirt holding up a blue handmade quilted fish-shaped bag, with a small orange fabric fish-shaped pin attached to the bag’s strap. it looks like the big fish bag is chasing the small fish pin
a hand holding up a small fabric wall quilt on a beach driftwood hanger. the quilt is made of a single “sawtooth star” block with a linocut print chanterelle design in the center, lime green star points, against an aqua blue background
a woven bookmark being made on a frame loom
a hand holding a v-gouge for block carving. a wine cork is attached to the stem of the gouge to make it easier to grip like a pen
a hand holding up a bock of pink linocut rubber being carved, of a design of a cute rough-skinned newt walking among river pebbles and twigs
a closeup of a camas inflorescence with a honeybee buzzing toward it. the inflorescence is a spike-like cluster with star-shaped blueish purple flowers with bright yellow anthers seeming to float like little golden sparkles around the flowers
a market booth full of stickers, prints, art, etc!
a hand holding a linocut print of a poppy plant, printed in black ink with watercolor coloring
a bunch of colorful fabric fish pins!! they are handmade with cute painted details!!
a block print of a blooming poppy plant with roots on textured tan paper. it’s held against a bright window to show the fabric texture inside the paper from the paper making process
a garland made out of fabric squares printed with block print fish. the fabric square colors gradate from purple to blue to green
a hand holding a backlit piece of paper with a sigil-like watermark showing through
hand holding a carved and inked print block on pink carving rubber, of an iceland poppy. lines are chunky yet delicate and the plant has visible root structure, one fully opened flower, and one drooping barely-opened fuzzy bud, the flowers atop a radially spread rosette of leaves
a blue ink lineart drawing of a fruiting strawberry plant. the top right corner is decorated with a partial frame of 9-block quilt squares, in desaturated primary colors, drawn with wax pastels
Japanese indigo plants growing in the yard. They’re small bushes about 2-3 feet tall, full of dark green leaves and topped with small sprays of minute pink-white flowers. Off to right & pressing into the indigo plants is a black hollyhock plant, also in flower
a very tiny glass jar with a brass colored lid holding about a tablespoon of powdered indigo pigment
a wobbly drawing of a road bike, colored with opaque acrylic markers and lined with blue ink
a handmade spindle for handspinning yarn, resting in a strange wood bowl thing. the wood bowl is like two separate bowl cavities carved into a single rectangular wood block, one larger than the other, with a thin groove connecting the two. i have no idea what it was originally for
a rough branch carved into a dip pen, the drawing end of it bright blue with ink
a tiny (4 inch) rug, made out of handspun natural-colored wool with cotton tassels, being used as a coaster under a ceramic mug