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Day 14 | GATHER
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Little watercolour now translated into tapestry.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A tiny tapestry - a yellow basket on a blue background. The basket is full of green leaves and purple fruits.
July 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Revisiting the idea of making a complete tiny tapestry in a day, now that I’ve found all the missing yarns 😊 This is inspired by the brilliant sunsets over the Bullen Range and the Brindabellas.
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A tiny tapestry, 5cm by 7cm. It shows a dark hill with a bare silhouetted tree against a flaming bank of cloud, with a lemony-blue sky behind.
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Day 8 | PROVOKE
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Poking the bear.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine tresses.
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A tiny tapestry - a red hand reaches out to poke a brown bear in the snout. Woven with a background of orange and yellow.
July 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Slow progress - 20cm completed and I’m a little concerned there’s not enough contrast on the trees, their shaded sides are getting lost. Considering options!
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A tapestry weaving in progress - shades of green, blue and pondscum with lines of white and brown. The tapestry is being woven side to side, and the picture shows the cotton warp threads and the bobbins holding the coloured wool weft.
February 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Day 7 | ARTIFICIAL
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Brain in a bell jar.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine @austapestry tresses.
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A small woven tapestry featuring a pink brain with green and white eyes under a pale blue bell jar on a darker blue background.
July 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Day 21 | SPARK
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One spark is all it takes to set the world on fire.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A small tapestry of a red match-head against an orange backdrop.
July 22, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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Progress on my tapestry inspired by Gamcheon Village in Busan, with a nod to traditional Korean textiles. Using handspun yarn (mostly scraps) and commercial tresses. Fibres include Shetland, silk, North Ronaldsay, alpaca, merino, Border Leicester & Herdwick.
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A woven tapestry in progress. The tapestry itself is woven on a Schacht loom and features blocks of colour in architectural shapes, with the edges of the piece done in stripes that align with colours in traditional Korean textiles. Behind the tapestry is a cartoon that is guiding the weaving, and a printout of the textile colours for reference. The tapestry is unfinished, with more block shapes and landscape details still to weave.
October 2, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Day 17 | MISFIT #cdccreativechallenge26
Misfit or neurodivergent? I thought I was one for most of my life but it turns out I’m the other.
Handspun yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A tiny tapestry showing four amorphous human-like figures against a white background. Three of the figures are grey; the fourth, which is smiling with one arm raised, is bright red.
July 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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A little more this morning on my saltmarsh tapestry.
The mother yarns are handspun, home dyed Shetland, and the tresses (4 to a bundle) are from the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
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An unfinished woven tapestry, worked from bottom up. The work is in shades of yellow-green shot with rusty brown to indicate the marsh, with the blue of a loch at the top edge of the work.
September 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Off the loom this morning - saltmarsh. Mother yarns are handspun Shetland, and the tresses are from the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Herdwick & Nth Ronaldsay handspun in the sky.
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A small tapestry of a Scottish saltmarsh, about 20cm wide and 25cm tall. The marsh in the foreground is yellow-green shot with shades of russet brown, with a loch behind reflecting the sky. Hills rise behind the loch under a grey sky. The piece is an exploration of colour and an attempt to capture the wild beauty of Ardgour. It’s also an exploration of weaving technique as I prep for a larger tapestry.
September 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Day 12 | EMERGE
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A seeding emerges from the soil, full of promise and tenacity. But whether it is good or bad - that’s all a matter of perspective.
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Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A tiny tapestry of a green shoot emerging from dark soil against a pale background.
July 12, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Day 13 | NOISE #cdccreativechallenge26
Flooding the zone.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A tiny tapestry representing noise. It features white and dark triangles, with hatching drawing the shapes together. The dark yarn is multicoloured dark shades of purple and green with occasional pops of bright blue and green.
July 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Day 10 | QUACK
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A duck and a Victorian medicine bottle. Isn’t the English language grand? 😊🦆
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A small tapestry depicting a mallard duck no front of a blue antique medicine bottle.
July 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Ardgour Birches - only needs backing sewn on. I’ve decided to use it as a sample and weave it again in a larger size to capitalise on all the good ideas in this piece. This is approximately 20cm on the short edge.
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A small handwoven tapestry of birches against a cut embankment. The embankment is in shades of brown against the greens depicting grass, and the birches are in white and pale brown. Some threads visible at the top show that the tapestry requires finishing, a cloth backing to cover the threads at the back of the work. Base colour yarns are handspun and hand dyed, with shot colours from fine yarns from the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Day 2 SMUDGE
A small smudge fire for your billy, smoke wreathing the trees at dawn. Magpies herald the day as you drink strong sweet tea, while the smoke stings your eyes. Peace.

5cm x 5cm handspun 2ply yarns with fine tresses.
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A tiny tapestry - a dark brown shape like a tree trunk rises through a white ground, with a drifting grey shape stretching across the piece to represent smoke. To the left are partial shapes in red and yellow - this is yesterday’s tiny piece nestled against today’s.
July 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Day 3 | JUSTICE

Trans rights are human rights.

Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine commercial tresses.

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A tiny tapestry depicting the trans flag in blue, pink and white. A dark line travels through the flag colours.
July 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Day 15 | MEND #cdccreativechallenge26
Creative visible mending challenges the waste of fast fashion.
Vertical lines in tapestry create deep channels that need to be sewn up invisibly - I made them visible mends.
Handspun yarns.
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A small abstract tapestry - three green and purple-toned blocks with deep channels between them. The blocks are stitched together with crosses of orange yarn.
July 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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I’ve been playing with tiny tapestries this last week.
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A small tapestry made with handspun - it depicts a sunset with vivid orange shading to deep blue, behind a dark silhouetted hill. A small tapestry made with handspun - it depicts a sunset with pale yellow and pink shading to deep blue, behind a dark silhouetted hill. A sample of wedge weave based on sunset colours - dark brown, orange shot with purple and blue shot with yellow.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Mirrix Little Guy loom warped and ready - literally a blank canvas. I’m testing a wider sett in prep for a larger piece. If it feels good, I’ll warp the Arras loom for a larger version of the birches.
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A small tapestry loom warped in preparation for a project. This is continuously warped, and a green card sits between the working warp and the ‘waiting’ warp to make the working warp easy to see. A strip of green card is woven in at the bottom as part of the tapestry’s ‘floor’.
September 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Day 11 | FREEDOM #cdccreativechallenge26
Perhaps, when everything costs, an act of dissent can be to free your mind.

In meditation I was taught my mind was the sky, and my thoughts clouds which drift by.

Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A small tapestry of white and grey clouds against a blue sky - I was going for a Studio Ghibli vibe.
July 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Haven’t been sleeping well - last night after only 2 hours of sleep I decided up and doing was better than lying awake in bed. Another 3 hours disappeared in quiet creativity that ended with the first big tree.
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A woven tapestry in progress - the piece is being woven side to side so the pic has been flipped 90° to show its proper orientation. The tapestry shows a grove of birches, reduced to their essential elements, inspired by a grove I found during a hike last year in Ardgour, Scotland. The trees are white with buff shadows, and stand in a landscape of lush greens and browns, with blue sky behind. The picture also shows the sides of the tapestry loom, with various tools (including tapestry bobbins and a silver fork) and yarn waste scattered on the workspace.
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Day 16 | FERMENT #cdccreativechallenge26
It starts unseen, bubbles to the surface and builds to a head. Ferment and foment are not so far apart in meaning.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A small tapestry of a pale green glass beer mug on a purple background. The mug is full of beer which is foaming over the top of the glass.
July 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Day 18 | UNBIND
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I am my mother’s savage daughter,
The one who runs barefoot,
Cursing sharp stones -
I am my mother’s savage daughter,
I will not cut my hair,
I will not lower my voice.
-Sarah Hester Ross
Handspun yarns with tresses.
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A tiny tapestry- against a silky blue-green background, a featureless dark face with rich long hair in brown with yellow and orange highlights. A braid curls around the face on one side.
July 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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I’m doing a creative challenge in July.
Day 1 | UNCEDED #cdccreativechallenge26
Another day living on unceded land.
5cm x 5cm
Handspun 2ply yarns with fine tresses.
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A tiny tapestry in colours inspired by the Aboriginal flag. A dark red hill in the foreground shot with yellow threads; a dark sky speckled with red and yellow; a shape behind the hill in yellow that may be a rising sun.
July 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Day 20 | GLITCH
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Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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A tiny tapestry of a bird in silhouette. The bird is in dark yarn while the background is pale tinted with purple. The tapestry uses irregular hatching to break up the silhouette and make the image look ‘glitched’.
July 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM