The paths we’re on in life are often unknown until we reach the end of one. . [details for makers] what a gift we’re given to make things with our hands. All other notes are in the video 😊 📝 . #quilting #indigo #indigodye #handquilting

Prepping my house for fall 🍂 If drying flowers and lighting candles is part of your fall plan, maybe these pieces would like a home with you! ✨ knitted porcelain ✨ now available for purchase on my website ✨ . [details for makers] cotton yarn (harvested from old sweaters, leftovers from knitting, etc.) knitted into new forms, coated in porcelain slip, fired once (burning away the yarn), glazed, and fired a final time. 📝 . #knittedporcelain #fiberartist #fiberart #blueceramics #ceramics #ceramicart

My little collection of ✨ knitted porcelain ✨ is now available for purchase on my website! Until it sells out, I’ll be doing giveaways every weekend! First up is this sweet blue vase. To enter: ✨ follow me! @mender.maker ✨ comment tagging a friend (each comment is an entry!) ✨ like and share! If you share to stories, be sure to tag me! . Giveaway is open until 9 pm Sunday Sept. 20th. U.S. only (sorry international friends!) This all feels a little cheesy/IG silly, but I truly love to give things away more than to sell them. Thanks for being here and your support! . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #knittedporcelain #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram

✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ ✨ My first little collection of this work is now available for purchase on my website! ✨ . We are what we spend our time doing. I’m so grateful that I was the person who knitted away my anxieties when my kids were young, learned to trust my own abilities, and arrived at making this work. Maybe no one else will care for it, but I know that the process of making it was worth it whether it sells or not. 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

✨ New collection of work dropping 9/19 at noon Eastern ✨ ✨ knitted porcelain ✨ . Did you ever see someone fake knitting on TV or in a movie? Not sure why, but my actual knitting looked like that in this video! I swear, I was really knitting, though! 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn, knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip, fired once (burning away the yarn), then again with a clear glaze 📝 . #knittedporcelain #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramicartist #makersofinstagram #fiberart #fiberartist

✨ New Collection of work dropping September 19th ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . The kiln firing burns away the yarn leaving only porcelain. But in a form that could never exist if the yarn hadn’t been there. . #knittedporcelain #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram

✨ New Collection of work coming next week ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . Kiln closing vs kiln opening. Just ~24 hours and ~2000 degrees in between! 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

In my house vs in the gallery. . Over the summer, some of my work took a little trip to a gallery for a small solo show. The gallery space was a former sanctuary space for a church. I love spaces that have existed for multiple purposes since my work also is from materials that existed in order forms. 🪡 . [details for makers] The Most Merciful constructed in an Arabic Kufic script comprised of my old jeans and my daughter’s. The biggest opening to understanding Mercy for me is through my children. 📝 . . #kuficart #denimart #upcycledclothing

Sometimes you just have to throw something fun. I’ve got an itch to throw closed forms and that’s just what I’m going to do. 🏺 . . [details for makers] I’m making jars with lids by throwing closed forms. Let’s be honest, throwing a jar and a lid separately just isn’t as much fun. 📝 . #ceramics #wheelthrown #wheelthrownpottery #wheelthrownceramics

Good morning from my garage studio! ☀️ I’m chasing the sun to get just a few more layers on these knitted porcelain pieces before they go in the kiln. . ✨Knitted Porcelain collection coming in September ✨ . [details for makers] If you’re going to try to do this, I think the trickiest part is adding more clay without losing the form. 📝 . #knittedporcelain #textileart #ceramicart #ceramicartist

Added some of my knitted porcelain work right in the middle there. ✨ knitted porcelain drop later this month ✨ . [details for makers] everything I was making/made in this video was done using reused materials. Recycled clay (ok, little bit of a stretch since I did buy it originally as clay), fabrics and threads from old garments, yarn from old sweaters, etc. As makers, it’s easy to feel the pull to buy supplies continuously, but I often make my favorite things when I limit that impulse. 📝 . #handquilting #knittedporcelain #ceramics #kuficembroidery #slowliving

✨ New Collection of work coming in September ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . The appeal of new things is lost on me. The best stories take time. Our possessions tell stories. About what we value. Where we’ve been. 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

I think I may finally understand a good day to night look. ✨ New Collection of work coming in September ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

✨ New Collection of work coming in September ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . Just a quick highlight of a few of my many failures! 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once, then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

✨ New Collection of work coming in September ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ . Nothing lasts forever. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t cherish every breath. Every day that we’re given. 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once, then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #knittedporcelain

✨ New Collection of work coming in September ✨ ✨ Knitted Porcelain ✨ If you’re wondering how you got here - yes, this is mostly a quilting account, but my creative excitement has brought me here for now. I’m sure I’ll get back to quilting soon 🧵 . The yarn that I used to make these vases was at the end of its usefulness. Knit, frogged, reknit - at least 3 times. Once a sweater that I wore when I was pregnant with my first child. Nothing beats the poetry of life. 🧶 . [details for makers] cotton yarn (always harvested from the cotton yarn already in my life - old sweaters, leftovers, etc, etc) Now being knitted into forms, slowly coated in porcelain slip. Fired once then again with a clear glaze. 📝 . #ceramics #ceramicart #fiberart #fiberartistsofinstagram #porcelainart #knittedporcelain

Leaning into the sentimental and personal with a goal of making work that feels universal.