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jaimelyerly.bsky.social
Artist Weaver with a stuffed fox as her best friend, who loves supporting and connecting with other living artists, makers, and lovers of art and humanity.
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🧵#stitching is the only thing that makes sense right now. Even when it's just making marks of pink on pink, it's better than feeling helplessness. Reminder to keep creating. To keep showing up for each other. That it doesn't need to make sense to make things. #healingarts #handstitch #wip

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The sound of the gentle rain in San Diego has been so nice. It's like the earth can just soak it up, and swell with goodness. I often sleep to water sounds, so this is actually perfect for rest. I needed a rest day today, and I got it. May you get the rest you need as well. .

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I sewed until my right arm and shoulder hurt. Then I sewed again, until it said, really, please stop. But I didn't want to stop making. So I drew with acrylic paint pens on my practice book with my non-dominant left hand. It worked okay, but it really made me want to paint. art found a way

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These are the stitches I put into this slow stitch meditation today. I'm not sure if there is more to this, but it's a start. 🧵 #wip #fiberart #markmaking

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Current POV: fabric chosen and pinned together for slow stitch / stitch meditation, in my own way. Making to get back to baseline, and lifting out of the hole. May these colors and patterns invite you to create and be well. Love. ❤️🦊 🧵

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Outstanding photography 🦊

submitted 31 days ago • 166 comments

Look, do I buy myself lots of little treats? Yes. Do I deserve them for putting up with me every day? Also a big yes.

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Close up #slowstitching #handstitching for blocking out the intense things going on in the world. These bright pink and teal blue are my favorites. So much life to them. May these colors and stitches invite you into a world that is alive and safe, even while it's being created as it has for me.

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I don't think it's right that nightmares can sneak into nap time. Wait your turn, man. Naps are for a good time, not a long time, so they shouldn't have scary things in them.

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Love this! 🫶🏾

submitted 36 days ago • 59 comments

A little good news. Three weeks later. The Los Angeles Wildfires Are Fully Contained www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 191 comments

So many hours of hand stitching on fabric scraps. Play in progress, and process. This is for healing, and to focus my attention on devotion. #slowstitch #fabric #fiberart #processart #wip #craft

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Current view, for resting in bed after treatment. Hand stitching, coconut water, covers of epic songs, a bagel with cream cheese delivered by a kind son... and Philip De Fox, watching over me. It's a good day so far over here. Just got to block out the noise. I wish us all peace today.

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I need to read this every day, all day: “Power demands sad bodies. Power needs sadness because it can dominate it. Joy, in consequence, is resistance because joy doesn't give up. Joy as a life force leads us places where sadness can never go.” -Gilles Deleuze 1925-1975

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A new piece to #slowstitch, and be with. I cut the fabric scraps into smaller pieces, and layered them. New beginnings, stitched from pieces gathered. I did this to remind myself that I can receive energy from making. It don't need to wait until I have more energy. This is enough, for now.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

@janettedalgliesh.bsky.social Janette, I had a bag of Australian strawberry licorice this week, and I thought of you. I hope you are well. Thank you for being in my life.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

A little winter magic with a gorgeous red fox in Jasper National Park. Enjoy!

submitted 39 days ago • 60 comments

ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today. (photo by me)

submitted 39 days ago • 278 comments

I didn't like the idea that there was no time for stitching today, so here is what the one thread I had threaded, and 15 minutes of #slowstitching looks like on this #wip We make time for what matters.

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No time for #stitching this morning, but here is where I'm at with it. I think the top part looks like a pirate treasure map. The middle looks like an eye? The bottom part looks like a robot on a mountain? Who knows what is actually happening here? Not me. I'm just the one who stitches it.

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More #handsewing today, while the rain starts and stops. I love this turquoise polka dot fabric.

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Sewing #WIP this down, I saw a robot. Particularly, the shape of the robot from The Flaming Lips album, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." The fabric and stitches are in charge of this creation, so if it wants it: yes. #slowstitching #art #fabric scraps, in progress for fun and exploration.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

#handstitching work in progress, doing it for the process of it. #slowstitch #artandcraft Allowing the fabrics to lead the way on this.

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I'm almost halfway through with my goal to hug my adult son Xenneth 100 times. This is my kind of goal setting, where there is no failure, only just time it takes to meet the goal. This screenshot is from the self care app Finch, where I track my personal goals.

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Just waiting for the rain to come to where the wildfires near the US/Mexico border over this weekend. I've been watching the fire coverage over on the Watch Duty app, and the fire has gotten bigger but is still in a less populated area. I hope the rain helps, and puts the fires out for good.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

One of my non-monetizable hobbies is reading. Audiobooks are my favorite way. I read mostly fiction; usually middle grade fantasy stories with unique magical systems. My #Goodreads goal is 88, which is just under 8 books a month. I'm on track for that goal so far. What are you #reading?

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Please remember to wipe down the void when you’re done screaming into it there are other people at this gym too

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

First time hand stitching in months, and it makes me happy to share this work in progress. #slowstitch #handstitching #workinprogress

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January is not the month for resolutions. We’re all sick, exhausted, cold, broke, depressed and back at work against our will. January *is* the month for outrageous Victorian self-care rituals, because who needs a new gym membership when you can just take a good turn about the room for your agonies.

submitted 65 days ago • 56 comments

Truth.

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