I love coffee. I drink it every day. Just a bit of sugar, maybe. Always lots of half & half.
During the first part of the pandemic, we didn't have enough coffee filters to last to some indeterminate time when stores would be open again, so I started to reuse them. They say you can't reuse paper coffee filters but they are wrong. You know what doesn't work? Cloth coffee filters. I tried it and it was a coffee disaster. I don't remember the details because it was almost 2 years ago.
I started saving the coffee filters. Using used coffee filters in my art-making process seemed like a natural extension of the used dish clothes. I stitched on them and stitched them together but they lack the flow of cloth. The staining that builds up over time. The thread bare essence of the worn out spots. I love those bits. I love tearing them up and sewing them back together. Then you can really see the range of colors that a bunch of pieces of fabric that all used to be bright white can take on.