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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Day 5 | WHISPER
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This was a dark fantasy riffing on bot farms and the corrosive whisper of algorithm-targeted, AI-created disinformation.

Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine @austapestry tresses.

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A tapestry depicting a little red bot constantly whispering AI-driven disinformation represented by blue rectangles - the background transitions from a soft purple to a more corrosive orange.
July 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Day 9 | GRACE
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Grace Tame - a courageous young woman who fought back against her abusers, would not smile when powerful men thought she should, and who speaks up for those who have no voice.
Handspun 2ply yarns + supplementary tresses.
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A small tapestry - the background is pink and orange toned, and at the bottom in blue is the word TAME. Above the word is an open lipsticked mouth.
July 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Day 19 | STATIC #cdccreativechallenge26
A spark leaping.
Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses.
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Tiny tapestry - a jagged white line leading to a star to represent static leaping. Star and line are woven against a predominately blue background shot with yellow, green, purple and red.
July 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Day 6 | PLAY
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Play and finding joy in play is a subversive act when big money interests want you angry and unhappy and dissatisfied so that you continue to want and consume.

Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplemental tresses.

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Small free-form tapestry using techniques including meet & separate, pick & pick, and eccentric weaving. Colours are pinks, purple, yellow and green.
July 6, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Day 4 BLOOM
‘…people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom... But in the meantime, every 3 months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland.’

Bob Katter MP, 2017

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Mini Bob Katter tapestry, 4x7.5cm. A stylised white-haired figure in blue trousers, white shirt and paler blue tie. A slim red-petalled flower grows in front of the figure which stands against a green background (to represent north Queensland crocodiles). Bob Katter is a ‘colourful’ (ie incoherent oddball) conservative Australian politician who represents an electorate in North Queensland in the Australian Federal Parliament.
July 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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All the pieces I made for the #cdccreativechallenge26 from 1 to 21 July 2026. I connected them with a raised fist in black and yellow threads + knitting needles for my favourite dissenters, the Knitting Nannas.
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A collection of tapestries from the final 2 weeks of the craft+design Canberra creative challenge. Top row: glitch (a bird in silhouette with glitch lines represented in irregular hatching); spark (a purple-headed matchstick); static - a spark leaping to a point); unbind (a dark-faced featureless girl with one braid, the rest of her hair unbound). 2nd row: ferment (a foaming gear mug); misfit (three figures in grey looking at a vivid red figure); gather (a small basket full of greens). 3rd row: freedom (a fluffy cloud against a blue sky); emerge (a green shoot emerging from dark soil); noise (blocks of white and dark with regular hatching to represent noise). Bottom row: artificial (a brain in a jar, a comment on AI); provoke (a hand poking a bear); grace (an open mouth and the word ‘tame’ referencing Grace Tame); quack (a mallard duck in front of a Victorian cobalt medicine bottle). In the middle of the combined tapestry is a raised fist worked in yellow and black knots at the front of the tapestry - the fist is holding a black and a yellow knitting needle, referencing the Knitting Nannas. Tapestry pieces for the first week of the craft+design canberra challenge. Top row: whisper (a bot whispering disinformation); play (random tapestry elements including pick-and-pick and eccentric weaving). Bottom row: UNCEDED (a sunrise in the colours of the Australian Aboriginal flag); smudge (smoke drifting around a tree); justice (the trans flag); bloom (representation of Bob Katter and his crazy ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’ doorstop speech).
July 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM