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Flame & Honeycomb

@flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social

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Queer animist craftsperson on unceded Abenaki land. Neurodivergent, chronically ill and disabled. Botanical dyeing, quilting, knitting, embroidery. Fiber art as every day magic and connection to those who came before.

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Feb 2

Hello! My name is Miel (a word for honey) Rose (after my grandmother). I’m coming here to start fresh in a (hopefully) more equitable and caring space. I’m mostly here to share about my fiber work, to make connections with kindred makers, and to find folks who might benefit from my offerings ❤️

A photo taken right over my shoulder showing my arms covered in a gray sweater. I’m holding an iron in my left hand and ironing the back side of a quilt top made of blue and yellow/orange triangles

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’ll be at the VT Queer Arts Festival tomorrow, if anyone close to central VT sees this! Come say hi and check out my new fiber works, including this hand appliquéd wall hanging! #vermontarts #queerarts #centralvt #fiberarts #queermarket #slowcraft #makersmarket #craftfair #queerartsfestival

A cloth wall hanging with hand appliqué depicting an apple cut in half cross wise to show the star shape the seed chambers make. Between the apple halves is a knife and above a red banner with embroidered letters reading “mundane magic”. All cloth hand dyed with botanicals (Madder, Pomegranate with iron, Rose leaf with iron, Black Walnut, and Birch bark).

A poster for the Queer Arts Festival. Lettering say: Saturday, August 2, 10 am-4 pm, masked access hour 10-11am, at Millstone Hill, 59 Little John Rd, Barre, VT,
80+ artists vendors! Music & performances! Food * art builds * queer history * kids zone * forest trails, all welcome * free entry. The poster has a drawing of two raccoons in a garden peeling the skin off watermelons to reveal what looks like disco balls.

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Jul 21

🤣💀🎉

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Jul 19

Yesss! So beautiful and I love that you hand pieced it 😍!

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DerryNow @derrynow.bsky.social · Jul 16

Granny Squares for Gaza Quilt heading to Derry

The quilt comprises of 2300 squares, each representing 10 children murdered by Israel in Gaza Craftivism for Palestine will team up with the Bloody Sunday Trust to bring their Granny Squares for Gaza quilt to Derry. Thw quilt will arrive in the city on Tuesday, July 29 and will be laid out on ---

www.derrynow.com

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hey #Aotearoa peeps — here’s some awesome kaupapa that you might like to get behind. If you’ve ever seen anything about Ron Tekawa & his fabulous quilt work, you’ll be chucking money at this!!
#kikorangi

www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

Image shows a bearded Māori man draped in gloriously colourful quilts he has made. He wears a multi-coloured crocheted beaning on his head

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Berkeley Public Library @berkeleypubliclibrary.org · May 31

Y'all! You're doing my work for me by celebrating events at BPL and I'm absolutely tearing up with joy.
Yes do come see the beautiful Transmissions Quilts
Check out this amazing link including the exhibit guide: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/transmission...

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · May 10

Stunning!!

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · May 6

Amazing, thank you! That makes sense about EPP. I will actually have enough solar power to run an electric sewing machine, just not enough for an iron since they pull sooo much energy. Luckily a family friend has a set of sad irons I can use. 🤞 I learn quick and don’t burn a hole in anything 😜

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · May 6

Have you tried online mail services like stamps dot com or pirate ship? I’ve used both, but pirate ship is free and less glitchy in my experience. They make it easy to compare shipping prices, give discounted shipping fees, and you can pay them and print your label and not have to wait in line at PO

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · May 6

Thank you! I looked into cordless irons but it seemed like they were meant to continually sit on a plugged in base every time you put the iron down? But I should look into it more to see if I missed something 🎉

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 28

Patchwork of your grandmothers quilt. This is a really beautiful project! Good luck with everything!

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 28

The harder it is to get it through the fabric. Look into thimbles and see if there are any styles that work for you. I also use pliers to pull my needle through which saves my wonky joints. Look at different patterns of stitches that people use to quilt to get ideas of what might fit best with the

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 28

Incredibly special to see her stitches! I agree that just looking up hand quilting videos on YouTube will get you far. Experiment with different needle types. You want something strong enough that it’s not bending on you when you’re trying to push the needle through, but the thicker the needle is,

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 28

So beautiful!! I support your desire to hand quilt it, both as a hand quilter myself and also to keep the continuity of her beautiful hand stitched piecing 😍. I have a quilt top that my great grandma hand pieced that I will be slowly mending/reinforcing and then re-quilting one day and it’s so

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 21

Gorgeous!

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 21

🤣 as a quilter who dyes all the fabric I use, it’s pretty great tho 😜

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 20

So sweet!!

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 19

Yesss, just found that out! 😖🤪

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 18

And if you are still tired, maybe your bod is having issues with absorption. I’m taking mine with vitamin C (which helps with absorption) and still coming up low in my blood work 😳. Gonna try a couple more things but might have to go to IV iron next 😱. Good luck out there everybody! 🥳

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TheQuiltersDoc @thequiltersdoc.bsky.social · Apr 18

BIG EXCITING NEWS - "The Quilters" will be streaming worldwide on @Netflix as of May 16th! It is mind-boggling to think that these men & their wonderful sewing group will be available in 191 countries and 32 languages! Tell all your friends & quilters!
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#ReleaseDate #Netflix #Documentary #Quilting

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hand quilted with a cotton linen blend thread dyed with indigo.

#slowart #fiberart #handquilting #botanicaldye #functionalart

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 18

Meet Polychrome! A 62”x62” cozy beauty made from many strips of botanically dyed fabrics. Named Polychrome both for the literal meaning of “many colors” and for the Rainbow’s daughter in the original Oz books. The backing is flannel and was dipped haphazardly in an indigo vat and looks like the sky.

A photo of a square quilt hanging on the outside wooden wall of a tool shed. It is made from strips of fabric dyed with many different plants (and one insect) in shades of green, gray, brown, blue, yellow, tan, and pink. The strips are sewn diagonally on different squares and then sewn together to make diamond shapes.

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Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congrats!!!

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 13

Love this babe 😭😍

Flame & Honeycomb @flameandhoneycomb.bsky.social · Apr 7

Thank yooou 🎉. Waiting for some upcoming dye projects to be done and so excited to jump back in!