NatureMC, 1 month ago to visibleMending

I was rummaging through old photos and found this testimony of how I started (and then got hooked on) #VisibleMending. Moths had eaten holes in my favourite jumper. I was furious and swore revenge with a needle. Since I couldn't embroider properly or be accurate, I "needle-painted" yarn moths. Today, everyone thinks the jumper is an expensive designer piece. 🤭

#throwbackthursday #embroidery #wildStitching #intuitiveStitching #repair #slowFashion #moths #reuse #upcycling #jumper #fashion

O repaired the holes and stitched intuitively on other places, too, to make the jumper more joyful. Here in pink.
Sometimes I embroidered rough curves between the holes like the flight trajectories of moths in a comic. Here in bright yellow.

NatureMC, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to visibleMending

🧵 1/ My new #VisibleMending project: This linen-yarn T-shirt is a memento of my dog, who once got stuck at the bottom with his claw and tore a hole. It's darned in the shape of a yellow beetle. To make the whole thing more harmonious, I'm going to do a few small appliqués elsewhere today. @visiblemending

#yarn #silk #sareeSilk #upcycling #recycling #repair #FastFashionSucks #slowFashion #beetle #memento #darning #wildStitching #intuitiveStitching #embroidery

NatureMC, 9 months ago to rust

When I created this #artjournal to digest the terrible images and news of a #wildfire, I had no idea how much the condition could become the new "normality" in so many countries. #Rust and hammer printing, and wild stitches. #wildfires #art #artistsOfMastodon #Rustprint #hammerPrint #ecodyeing #TatakiZome #WildStitching #embroidery #mixedmedia #printing

Another 2 pages, the backside of photo 1. The wild stitches look different on their backside and become integrated into a new image. The more filigree plant structure at the right is made by hammer printing a grass and lining with black paper thread.
2 pages with spare rust print. On the left, a tree structure is cut out as a hole. It is covered with dyed gauze and offers a view of the landscape below. On the right, three overlapping tree structures: the back of black paper embroidery, green thread structures and the hammer print of common bent grass.
Macro of the gauze. Behind, is the reddish-brown rust print of the page below.