A Collection of Colorful Coils Emerge in an Ambitious 100 Day Project

If you’ve read Brown Paper Bag for any length of time, you prob­a­bly know that I love dai­ly art projects. In par­tic­u­lar, I love what you can learn about your­self and your artis­tic prac­tice by hav­ing to cre­ate some­thing every sin­gle day, whether that’s for a month, 100 days, and beyond. (I’m work­ing on my own dai­ly art project, 1 Year of Stitches.)

Fiber artist Amy Read­er has been dili­gent­ly work­ing on her project, the #100daywallhanging since ear­ly April. The guide­lines are open-end­ed; each day, she must stitch some­thing that’s just for the wall hang­ing. “At first I thought about doing 100 coils,” she explains, “but then I was afraid of only hav­ing tiny coils so I adjusted.”

Now over two months in, the piece is has grown—it’s now too big for Amy to com­fort­ably hold—and show­cas­es a beau­ti­ful col­lec­tion of col­or­ful spi­rals. It’s allowed her to push the bound­aries of her work. “This piece looks noth­ing like any of the oth­er wall hang­ings I’ve made so far,” she says, “and I love it! It is so dif­fer­ent for me to work like this. I’m just adding what­ev­er I feel like wher­ev­er I feel like with no end goal in sight.”

But with the project end near­ing (albeit still a ways away), Amy has shift­ed her focus to cohe­sion. “Now I am com­ing back around,” she writes, “to make sure I feel like the piece is cohe­sive and ends up mak­ing sense in the end.”

Be sure to fol­low Amy on Insta­gram to see how the rest of her #100daywallhanging turns out!