Just a bit more about some pieces that are in my shop! Link in bio 🔗 . [details for makers] The smallest scraps from our work are often the most interesting, aren’t they? All those layers of our life and work. SubhanAllah 📝 . . #handquilting #quilting #lifeinpiecesquilt #upcycledtextiles

New small collection available in my shop. 🧵 Did We Cross Paths? 🧵 Link in bio. 🔗 [details for makers] The sheer linen curtains I looked out during the pandemic. They allowed light into our home in the most beautiful way. This series is a rumination on missed connections, tattered objects, and my love for all that’s worn down by our lives. Other materials included are scraps from my quilting practice, leftover and reclaimed threads, and an old pillowcase (the framing fabric). I’m grateful that you crossed paths with my work and hope the right path is created in giving these pieces homes. Piece measures 5” x 5” and is stretched over a canvas. Technique from @heidi.parkes small quilts class. 📝 . . #hpquiltmaking #quilt #handquilting #repurposedfabric #smallquilt

Trying something new. Trying new things is hard. ✂️ [details for makers] this quilt was designed in @heidi.parkes Diary Quilt class. I started it one week after my mother passed away. 📝 . . #hpquiltmaking #diaryquilt #griefquilt #loss #handquilting #hpdiaryquilt

Eid Mubarak ✨✨ [details for makers] Kufic design saying “Allah” - God in Arabic. Banner for Eid made maybe 15 years ago. Both created with our old clothing. 📝 . #kuficdesign #reusedclothing #repurposedclothing #eidmubarak

Available along with a small capsule of similar work via the link in my bio! 🔗 . My twitchy eyes are ready to get back to larger scale work, but I know I’ll be back to making these again one day. 🧵 . [details] Through the year, I held onto the smallest scraps from things that I made. In the summer, I used thread scraps and junk mail to make paper. In the fall, I collected and pressed leaves. I used nothing new to make this collection. Through Rajab and Shaban (the months leading up to Ramadan), I made it my intention to turn all those precious remnants into artwork. Removing the smallest threads, and weaving others in. Using the tiniest stitches to create Kufic calligraphy (reading Allah - God). Maybe even when it feels like there’s nothing left, we actually have more than we realize. ✨ . . #kuficart #textileart #ramadan #ramadan2025 #stitchingibadah

I’ve put up a small collection of work for sale on my website for Ramadan. (Link in bio) I’m hoping to list a few more before the month begins iA. 🍁 . [details] Through the year, I held onto the smallest scraps from things that I made. In the summer, I used thread scraps and junk mail to make paper. In the fall, I collected and pressed leaves. I used nothing new to make this collection. Through Rajab and Shaban (the months leading up to Ramadan), I made it my intention to turn all those precious remnants into artwork. Removing the smallest threads, and weaving others in. Using the tiniest stitches to create Kufic calligraphy (reading Allah - God). Maybe even when it feels like there’s nothing left, we actually have more than we realize. ✨ . . #kuficart #textileart #ramadan #ramadan2025 #stitchingibadah

Weaving with leaf stems. As one does. 🍁 I’m working on a small capsule of work that will go up for sale around Ramadan, iA. Working title: It Felt Like There Was Nothing Left. Through the year, I held onto the smallest scraps from things I made. In the summer, I used thread scraps for paper. In the fall, I collected and pressed leaves. I’m using nothing new. 🧵 . . [details for makers] Kufic designs created with cross stitch. 📝 . . #kuficart #kuficcrossstitch #preparingforramadan #islamicembroidery

Best way to finally get back to old projects? Pick them up when you’re “supposed” to be working on something else! Working title: I Opened the Curtains to Let The Light In 🧵 . . [details for makers] the first sheets I bought myself as an *adult* (from Martha Stewart’s Kmart collection when Kmart was going out of business) are the background fabric. I turned them into curtains and used that way for 15ish years. So sun faded. So loved. 📝 . . #hpquiltmaking #handquilting #upcycledtextiles #logcabinquiltblock

I’m working on a small capsule of work that will go up for sale around Ramadan. Through the year, I held onto the smallest scraps from things I made. In the summer, I used thread scraps for paper. In the fall, I collected and pressed leaves. I’m using nothing new. Not entirely sure where I’m going, but I like what I have so far. 🧵 . . [details for makers] Kufic designs created with quilting and cross stitch. 📝 . . #kuficart #kuficcrossstitch #preparingforramadan #islamicembroidery

Making something beautiful out of our textile waste is my superpower. 🧵 . . [details for makers] pattern in development by me. 😳 Do you love process and scraps? I do! This pattern leans in heavy to both! 📝 . . #denimquilt #denimquilting #lifeinpiecesquilt #handquilting

Sometimes it’s fun to work really small. I can only work this small without my glasses. Which I love. I let the world go blurry and only concentrate on what’s right in front of me. 🧵 . . [details for makers] cross stitching a Kufic Arabic design ( that reads Allah) using one strand of sashiko thread and linen fabric. 📝 . . #kuficart #kuficcrossstitch

Two views of the same quilt ☀️ makes all the difference when looking for that texture. 🧵 . . [details for makers] another take on my #lifeinpiecesquilt, which is headed off to Quiltcon. I’m hoping to release the pattern around the time of the convention, but I’m pretty great at procrastinating, so we’ll see! I didn’t ever care that much for the curtains that I used as the main fabric. But somehow as a quilt, I couldn’t adore that same fabric more. 📝 . . #quiltedtexture #quiltingtexture #handquilting #denimquilt

Today I’m feeling especially grateful for my role as a homemaker. Is there anything more precious than making a home? Certainly not. 🧵 . . [details for makers] layers of quilts made entirely of our used textiles. Old clothing. Holding so much of who we were. 📝 . #handquilting #logcabinquilt #layersofquilts #quiltedhome #quiltsmakeahome

I have a really hard time with endings. That last page of a book is just the most bittersweet. I feel that way with quilting too and lately when I do, I just quilt a little more. 🧵 . . [details for makers] Old curtains +old jeans. I’m so glad I just used scissors instead of the ruler and rotary cutter before binding. Iteration on #lifeinpiecesquilt still playing with this pattern. 📝 . . #quilting #handquilting #quiltstagram #upcycledjeans

Have you ever noticed that when you iron someone’s old clothing, you get a strong whiff of that person? There’s something particularly funny about ironing old pjs. 🧵 . . [details for makers] I’m starting another iteration of my #lifeinpiecesquilt. I majored in math and gosh I’ve always loved to mess around with equations. This pattern is hitting all the right parts of my textile/math/process loving brain. 📝 . . #quilting #quiltershome #quiltersgonnaquilt #makersgonnamake #upcycledfabric

Zoom in ➡️ zoom out ⬅️ Pattern by me and in progress for you! . . [details for makers] The background fabric is the first set of curtains that I bought. From ikea. They felt like a real upgrade after only ever having blinds. We haven’t used them in ages and I think this is the last one. Other panels went into the kinds of projects that took up my life when my kids were young. Lots of bean bags. As I was finishing this quilt top, I found myself wishing I hadn’t wasted the fabric on such short-term projects that disappeared so quickly from our lives. But life disappears quickly no matter what we do. And I’m so grateful for the bean bag making years and that I can be drawn back to such beautiful memories by using the rest of those curtains on this project. 🧵 . . #lifeinpiecesquilt #handquilting #quilting #quiltlove #denimupcycle #sashikothread #makersgonnamake

Leaning into the sentimental and personal with a goal of making work that feels universal.